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"Once More in Gombrowicz, dear friends! "

I walked down the aisle lined with eucalyptus trees, when suddenly emerges from behind a tree, a cow.
I stopped and we looked in the eye. His
vachéité surprised at this point my humanity - there was such tension in the moment when our eyes met - that I felt ashamed as a man , as a member of the human species. Strange feeling, I felt probably for the first time: the shame of man versus animal. I had allowed me to see, watch me, which made us equal, and suddenly I became myself an animal, but a strange animal, I would say illegal. I started, stopped resuming my walk, but I felt uncomfortable ... in the middle of this nature to urge me on all sides, who seemed to watch me ....

Witold Gobrowicz, Journal, Volume I (1953-1958), Gallimard, folio No. 2767, 1995, pp. 516-517. Translated by Christopher Jezewski and Dominique Autrand

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And now, the recording of the opera which had caused two years ago : Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy , tragic comedy in four acts and music Boesmans namesake from the play by Witold Gombrowicz, founded in late January 2009 at the Paris Opera (Palais Garnier). Libretto by Luc Bondy and Marie-Louise Bischofberger.

Yvonne : Dörte Lyssewski
King Ignatius : Paul Gay
Queen Margaret : Mireille Delunsch
Prince Philip : Yann Beuron
The Chamberlain : Victor von Halem
Isabelle Hannah Esther Minutillo
Cyril : Jason Bridges
Cyprien : Jean-Luc Ballestra
Innocent : William Anthony
Valentine Marc Cossu Leonian

Orchestra: Ensemble Klangforum Wien
Young Soloists
Branch: Rachid Safir
Musical Director: Sylvain Cambreling



Thank list ANPR !