Cavalli Eliogabalo

Systematically overturning accepted morals Elagabalus dresses men as women and names women to the Senate favours sinning servants and humiliates generals Baroque and carnivalesque Eliogabalo is not however an opera that advocates a return to order Leonardo García Alarcón a finder of baroque gems and Thomas Jolly are careful not to transform Eliogabalo into a sublime icon who would abase virtue On the contrary the conductor and young director who are presenting their first production for the Paris Opera accept the characters contradictions and ambiguities