''Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne'' is a 2009 opera by

Philippe Boesmans Philippe Boesmans (17 May 1936 – 10 April 2022) was a Belgian pianist, composer and academic teacher. He studied to be a pianist at the Royal Conservatory of Liège, and was self-taught as a composer, influenced by the Liège Group of Henri Po ...

to a

libretto A libretto (From the Italian word , ) is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or Musical theatre, musical. The term ''libretto'' is also sometimes used to refer to th ...

by Swiss dramatist and director

Luc Bondy Luc Bondy (17 July 1948 – 28 November 2015) was a Swiss theatre and film director. Life and career upright=1.3, '' Charlotte Salomon'' at the Salzburg Festival 2014 Trained in Paris with the theatre teacher Jacques Lecoq, he received a jo ...

based on the anti-conformist play ''Iwona, księżniczka Burgunda'' by

Witold Gombrowicz Witold Marian Gombrowicz (August 4, 1904 – July 24, 1969) was a Polish writer and playwright. His works are characterised by deep psychological analysis, a certain sense of paradox and absurd, anti-nationalism, anti-nationalist flavor. In 1937, ...

.''Droit & littérature'', Koen Lemmens, François Ost, François Jongen – 2874550701 (2007): "En 1965, ''Yvonne, princesse de Bourgogne'' est traduite en français et mise en scène au ... Au printemps 2009, cette pièce sera transformée en opéra à Paris sur une musique de Philippe Boesmans et un livret de Luc Bondy." ''Yvonne'' is the fourth in a series of operas with librettos by Luc Bondy, and the first of the four to be written in French not German. The libretto for Boesmans' subsequent French opera, ''

Au monde ''Au monde'' is a 2014 French-language opera by Philippe Boesmans in twenty scenes to a libretto by French dramatist after his own 2004 play of the same name. The opera premiered at the Théâtre royal de la Monnaie Brussels on 30 March 2014. The ...

'' (2014), was provided by .

Recordings

*Dorte Lyssewski (Yvonne), Mireille Delunsch (Le Reine Marguerite), Paul Gay (Le Roi Ignace),

Yann Beuron Yann Beuron (born 1969) is a French operatic tenor. Biography Yann Beuron studied at the Conservatoire de Paris where he won first prize in singing and graduated in 1996. He made his debut in 1995 at the Opéra national du Rhin in 1995 in the rol ...

(Le Prince Philippe), Victor von Halem (Le Chambellan), Hannah Esther Minutillo (Isabelle), Jason Bridges (Cyrille), Jean-Luc Ballestra (Cyprien), Guillaume Antoine (Innocent), Marc Cossu-Leaonian (Valentin) Klangforum Wien,

Sylvain Cambreling Sylvain Cambreling (born 2 July 1948 in Amiens, France) is a French conductor. Biography Trained as a trombone player, Cambreling studied at the Paris Conservatoire. He joined l' Orchestre Symphonique de Lyon (OSL) as a trombonist in 1971. In 197 ...

, Cypres. The recording was awarded Diapason d'or by the French music magazine Diapason.

References

2009 operas Operas by Philippe Boesmans Operas Operas based on plays French-language operas Adaptations of works by Witold Gombrowicz {{French-opera-stub

Recordings

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