Silvia Costa | I DIDN’T KNOW WHERE TO PUT ALL MY TEARS/CURLEW RIVER
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I DIDN’T KNOW WHERE TO PUT ALL MY TEARS / CURLEW RIVER
by Marko Nikodijević / Benjamin Britten
29 | 03 - 03 | 04 | 2026
Conductor and harmonium
Alphonse Cemin
Director
Set design
Michele Taborelli
Costume design
Camille Assaf
Lighting
Marco Giusti
Dramaturgy
Simon Hatab
Assistant stage director
Rosabel Huguet
I Didn’t Know Where To Put All My Tears
Commissioned by the Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine
world premiere
Libretto
Silvia Costa
with extracts from The River Sumida by Jûrô Motomasa and Te lucis ante terminum
Music
Marko Nikodijević
Collaboration on musical composition
Jug Markovic
Leading Voice / Counterpart of the Madwoman
Chelsea Lehnea
Le Balcon's soloists
Dima Bawab, Emmanuelle Jakubek, Inès Lorans, Pauline Nachman (double du Voyageur), Norma Nahoun, Camille Poul, Parveen Savart (double du Passeur), Michiko Takahashi
CURLEW RIVER
The Madwoman
Zhengyi Bai
The Ferryman
Mark Stone
The Traveller
Michael Mofidian
The Spirit of the Boy
Thomas Day (Trinity Boys Choir's student)
The Abbot
Stephan Loges
Opéra national de Nancy-Lorraine Chorus
Benjamin Colin, Hyeseong Jeong, Yongwoo Jung, Ill Ju Lee, Wook Kang, Jinhyuck Kim, Christophe Sagnier, Xavier Szymczak
Opéra National de Nancy-Lorraine Orchestra
Opéra National de Nancy-Lorraine Chorus and Le Balcon's soloists
coproduction with Opéra de Rennes



