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Sergei Prokofiev was a child prodigy who began composing at the age of 6. By the age of 14, he had already written four operas, a symphony and a violin sonata. By putting this traditional tale to music, he invited the young audience to discover orchestral instruments that personify the characters. The story of Peter, a young boy who lives in the Russian countryside with his grandfather, is thus punctuated by musical interludes where the protagonists are all characterized by a specific musical sound. Prokofiev only needed one week to compose this piece of unrivaled freshness. One fine morning, Peter opens the garden gate and goes roaming off into the big fields… And so begins the adventure where he meets the big, bad wolf. It is a tale of initiation and courage that invites us all to confront and overcome our fears. The artist’s score has been an undeniable success since its publication, for both children and adults.
Text by Serge Prokofiev
First performed at the Théâtre Central for the children in Moscow, May 2, 1936
Production by the Opéra de Lausanne and the Petit Théâtre de Lausanne
For the first time at the Opéra de Lausanne.
After studying music in Lausanne, Salzburg and Berlin, the Swiss conductor and pianist Antoine Rebstein was appointed artistic director of the Junges Orchester der Freien Universität Berlin. As guest conductor, he has participated in numerous concerts in Europe and Russia. In 2016, he created the Kammersensemble Berlin. Among the big opera projects that he has conducted feature Il barbiere di Siviglia (Verbier Festival), Carmen (Rheinsberg Festival) and Fidelio (Berlin). Antoine Rebstein is also famous for his interpretations and recordings of piano music for the left hand. The topic was the subject of a documentary in 2018 (ARTE TV). His current plans include the premiere of L’ombra (Ugo Bottacchiari) in Switzerland and France (March 2020).
Gérard Demierre went to the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel, the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and the École Nationale des Arts du Cirque in Paris. He was awarded for his work with the Morges Prix Culturel and the Prix de l’Éveil from the Fondation vaudoise pour la promotion et la création artistiques. He co-founded Le Petit Théâtre in Lausanne and was its director for 13 years. He wanted to transmit his passion for performing to the maximum possible number of people and therefore organised theatre workshops every summer for children and teenagers. To date, he has directed over a hundred productions.
At the Opéra de Lausanne: Peter and the Wolf (2006 and 2011), Les moutons bleus (2008), Phi-Phi (2014 Lyric Road), and Amahl and the Night Visitors (2017).
As a teenager, Örs Kisfaludy began a career as an actor on stage, in studios and television sets. From 1968 to 1970, he taught theatre in Kinshasa (Congo) and then resumed his acting career in Switzerland, France and Belgium. He has been hosting a musical programme on Radio Suisse Romande on Espace 2 since 1985.
Since 1986, he has devoted himself to a career as a reciter by participating in numerous concerts in Switzerland and abroad, in works such as : The Dance of the Dead, King David, Joan of Arc at the Bûcher, Judith, Nicolas de Flue (Honegger), Children in Bethlehem (Pierné), The Martyrdom of Saint Sébastien (Debussy) Oedipus Rex (Stravinsky) Pierre et le loup (Prokofiev), Bluebeard Castle (Bartók), Ethiopiques (Zbinden).
Since 2001, he has collaborated as an author and librettist on several musical creations with the Swiss composer, Thierry Besançon, including Les Zoocrates, an original creation by the Opéra de Lausanne in 2017.
Pierre de Beaudéan grew up in Manchester where he started playing the cello at the age of 2.
Arriving in Lausanne in 2014 and passionate about singing, he joined the Music School of the Conservatory. In 2016, he participated as an extra at the Opéra de Lausanne for La bohème.
Having spent his entire childhood in the world of classical music, Christophe Balissat discovered his interest in theatre. At the Conservatory of Lausanne, then at the “Piccolo teatro di Milano” drama school and at the Konservatorium der Stadt Zürich, he has developed a very personal working instrument.
Actor, director and theatre teacher, he is involved in any project combining text and music, and recites with predilection the repertoire where literature meets original compositions (The History of the Soldier, Babar, The Carnival of Animals, King David, etc).
After having directed opera students at the Zurich University of the Arts for about ten years, he teaches drama at several conservatories.
Born in Lausanne, Patrick Yaël Rion worked as a graphic designer in Lausanne. In 1978, he set up his own business and worked as a graphic designer, model maker, illustrator and editor for various local agencies and magazines.
Since 1980, he has been interested in the world of entertainment and has developed his activities as an actor, painter, sculptor, technician and scenographer, before creating, in 1985, Yaël Rion’s Decorative Medicine Unit. He collaborates with the Théâtre de Vidy, the Comédie de Genève, the Grand Théâtre de Genève, the Arsenic, the Théâtre Onze, as well as with the Béjart Ballet Lausanne. He develops an activity in the “off” environments of theatre and dance, as well as in graphic, plastic and scenic arts all part of his own company.
Since 2010, he turns resolutely towards a socio-cultural activity and opens in this framework “L’observatoire des machines nations pour machines à sous”.
At the Opéra de Lausanne: Peter and the wolf (2006 and 2011).
For the first time at the Opéra de Lausanne.
After studying music in Lausanne, Salzburg and Berlin, the Swiss conductor and pianist Antoine Rebstein was appointed artistic director of the Junges Orchester der Freien Universität Berlin. As guest conductor, he has participated in numerous concerts in Europe and Russia. In 2016, he created the Kammersensemble Berlin. Among the big opera projects that he has conducted feature Il barbiere di Siviglia (Verbier Festival), Carmen (Rheinsberg Festival) and Fidelio (Berlin). Antoine Rebstein is also famous for his interpretations and recordings of piano music for the left hand. The topic was the subject of a documentary in 2018 (ARTE TV). His current plans include the premiere of L’ombra (Ugo Bottacchiari) in Switzerland and France (March 2020).
Gérard Demierre went to the Kunstgewerbeschule Basel, the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and the École Nationale des Arts du Cirque in Paris. He was awarded for his work with the Morges Prix Culturel and the Prix de l’Éveil from the Fondation vaudoise pour la promotion et la création artistiques. He co-founded Le Petit Théâtre in Lausanne and was its director for 13 years. He wanted to transmit his passion for performing to the maximum possible number of people and therefore organised theatre workshops every summer for children and teenagers. To date, he has directed over a hundred productions.
At the Opéra de Lausanne: Peter and the Wolf (2006 and 2011), Les moutons bleus (2008), Phi-Phi (2014 Lyric Road), and Amahl and the Night Visitors (2017).
Jean-Marie Abplanalp has designed the sets for several productions including Les deux trouvailles de Gallus at the Théâtre National in Bruxelles, Die lustige Weiber von Windsor and La révolte at the Athénée in Paris, L’amour médecin and Le Sicilien at the Comédie-Française, Dom Juan at the Bastie d’Urfé and Jephta at the Opéra du Rhin in Strasbourg. He has worked with Gérard Demierre on Les fables de la Fontaine, with Pavel Jancik on Rusalka, with Vincent Vittoz on Le pauvre matelot and Le médium, with Nathalie van Parys on Marie dimanche, with Katia Delay on Quatre soldats, with Adriano Sinivia on Rigoletto and with Éric Vigié on Carmen.
At the Opéra de Lausanne: Idomeneo (1997), Béatrice et Benedict (2002), Pierre et le loup (2006),Die Fledermaus (2007), L’enfant et les sortilèges (2010).
Studying in Switzerland, Canada and Sweden. He was trained in architecture in Lausanne, a graduate from the Vancouver Film School, Sébastien Guenot places an intuitive narrative at the heart of his artistic work, with a pronounced taste for exploring the world of dreams; the unconscious and dreamlike. Whether it is a question of composing a spatial atmosphere, communicating a story or staging an emotion, his approach constantly strives to imagine a unique relationship between content and form.
Located between the ancient mystical imagination and contemporary arts, his narrative language is multiple, in the same way that his drawing, sculpture, painting, sound, photography, graphics, moving images, scenography and architecture.
At the Opéra de Lausanne: Peter and the wolf (2006 and 2011), Les moutons bleus (2008), Phi-Phi (2014), L’enfant et les sortilèges (revived in 2015), La Belle de Cadix (2016), Amahl et les visiteurs du soir (2017).
Born in Sweden, Lotte Rosenholmer studied at the French School in Stockholm, then literature and pedagogy at the University of Gothenburg. She arrived in Switzerland in 2002 and worked for many years in education. Passionate about textile and paper creations, she created costumes for theatre and dance performances. She is now active in creative projects related to graphic design, textile and decorative objects.
At the Opéra de Lausanne : Peter and the wolf (20016 and 2011).
After training as an electrician, Denis Foucart ventured into the world of events and designed the lighting for many events around the world, including Jean Michel Jarre’s concert, produced in Egpyt to usher in the year 2000. From 2000 to 2003, he was hired as the lighting director for the international tours of musicals Notre dame de Paris and Roméo et Juliette. At the end of 2003, he became the lighting director of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, and designed his first lighting for ballets with Zarathoustra, La vie du danseur and Le tour du monde en 80 minutes. For the Festival Avenches Opéra, he designed the lighting for La bohème and Nabucco.
Head electrician at the Opéra de Lausanne since 2008, he took over the lighting for Pierre et le loup, Die Zauberflöte, La veuve joyeuse, L’enfant et les sortilèges and created the lighting for Phi-Phi (Route Lyrique 2014), of La Belle de Cadix (Route Lyrique 2016), Les chevaliers de la Table ronde (Route Lyrique 2019) and Dédé (Route Lyrique 2021) as well as those of the opera for young audiences, Amahl et les visiteurs du soir in 2017 and Cendrillon in 2018 and 2023.