Le Ballet de l'Opéra national du Capitole

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Image courtesy of the Liceu.

The Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse returns to the stage of the Gran Teatre del Liceu to recreate, through gesture, the sensitive and nuanced world of Gluck’s music. The acclaimed choreographers Edward Clug and Ángel Rodríguez lead the company to bring color to these impressive scores.

Edward Clug, born in Romania (Beius, 1973), escaped the communist repression of dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu by enrolling in a dance school. Becoming a soloist at the National Theatre of Maribor (Slovenia), he created his first choreography in 1996. Already appointed as the director of the ballet company, he has created choreographies for the most prestigious companies in the world: Zurich Ballet, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Aalto Ballet of Essen, National Ballet of Ukraine, and NDT, among others.

Choreographer Ángel Rodríguez, born in Madrid, soloist and principal dancer of the Ballet of the Grand Theatre of Geneva and the National Dance Company, created his first choreography in 1999 for CND2. He has created works for renowned companies such as the National Dance Company (CND), the Tanz Company of Innsbruck, the Augsburg Ballet, Introdans, the Gyori Ballet of Hungary, the Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse, Ballet Carmen Roche, etc.

Jordi Savall, the most prestigious viol player and one of the conductors who has revolutionized the interpretation of music, has long wished to venture into the world of dance based on the music that Gluck wrote for his Don Juan. Written a year before Orfeo et Euridice, the composer renewed ballet by adapting a work by Molière for the Viennese audience in 1761. The following year would see Sémiramis. These two works are innovative because they offer, for the first time, a coherent narrative where all the resources of the orchestra are put to the service of expressiveness.

Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations, Angel Rodriguez, Edward Clug, and the Ballet du Capitole de Toulouse combine their energies to recover all the colors of these scores and remind us that, a quarter of a century before Mozart, another prominent figure was gracing the stages of Europe with the evocative power of music: C. W. Gluck.

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