Fantasio

Fantasio is a melancholy, moon-struck dreamer who yearns after an unreachable princess. Can he win her over with his disguise as her beloved jester and fulfil his promise to prevent her arranged marriage to the prince? Secret encounters and mistaken identities are eventually, and sometimes unexpectedly, resolved.

Offenbach was known for his witty and catchy melodies, poking fun at the establishment in tuneful scores of dazzling charm. Celebrating the composer’s bicentenary in 2019, Opera Zuid will present an opera of which the original score went up in flames during a fire at the Parisian Opéra Comique in 1887 and -after a not successful revival in the thirties- in 2000 was reconstructed to ‘acceptable’ form.

Although the piece will be totally new to the public, certain parts will sound particularly familiar.
A fair amount of the musical content was reprised and derived from Offenbach’s blockbuster opera: Les contes d’Hoffmann.

Fantasio is a colaboration between Opera Zuid, Club Guy & Roni’s Poetic Disasters Club and FASHION CLASH.

Credits:
Opera Zuid in collaboration with Philharmonie Zuidnederland
Director: Benjamin Prins
Choreography: Dunja Jocic
Conductor: Enrico Delamboye
Role: Hartmann