Heliox

A tragic tale in which love and filial sentiment battle in a political intrigue around the fascinating character of Simon, a privateer become doge: Simon Boccanegra is one of Verdi’s greatest operas, over which floats the shadow of his admiration for Shakespeare. For this captivating and moving score, the Dijon Bourgogne Orchestra has called upon one of the great Verdi specialists, Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, whose Traviata in 2011 demonstrated his intimate and precise knowledge of the Italian master’s style, and the German stage director Philipp Himmelmann, a regular at Unter den Linden in Berlin and the great European stages.

Japanese pianist and composer Joe Hisaishi conducts the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg at the Philharmonie de Paris, performing his Symphony No. 2, an arrangement of a piece from Ponyo (2008) and a symphonic suite based on the score of Princess Mononoke (1997), two iconic and acclaimed films by Hayao Miyazaki.

It's a crazy story. A happy journey to the epicenters of madness, the show parades portraits of a humanity of bipolar, paranoid and lost of all kinds, thugs and geniuses, surrounded by the dreams of pink rabbits in the hell of overwhelmed doctors ...