Before haunting the forest of Compiègne,
La Dame blanche
floated in the musical imaginations of our ancestors.
With 1669 performances in a century, this tube machine by François-Adrien Boieldieu, created in 1825, has remained one of our greatest hits.
If the score aligns entry with the airs that run through your head (from the mountain choir to the famous
Ah what a pleasure to be a soldier!
), The intrigue, sewn with white thread, a mixture of vaudeville à la Feydeau and fantastic à la Walter Scott, seems today struck by an obsolescence that can quickly turn to outdated.
Nothing like the version offered on November 9, at the opening of the Festival En Voix, by the Imperial Theater of Compiègne.
Set up by the theater collective La Co (opera) tive, this show should have started its tour a year ago.
We had to be content with a recording at the Opéra de Rennes in December.
Drawing the vaudeville side of the animal fable, with its costumes enhanced with imaginative headdresses evoking
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