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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

 


 
 
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