There is a life before the cinema.
This is what the Orchester de Cannes and its conductor Benjamin Levy seem to want to recall, with
Croisette
(Érato).
This joyful and colorful album like a beach on the Côte d'Azur under the sun, whose infinite nuances they will defend on Saturday evening at the Théâtre du Châtelet, revisits with brilliance and class the French operetta and musical comedy of the Roaring Twenties.
“The years that saw the birth of the palaces of Cannes, from the Majestic to the Martinez,
recalls Benjamin Levy.
And forged the myth of this dream Riviera which was that of Fitzgerald, Picasso or Hemingway.
A Riviera that composers and librettists (from Willemetz to Guitry) did not hesitate to stage in their own works.
Crunchy with humor and tenderness this colorful universe, where the first new rich, and ultimate representatives of a Belle Époque already bygone met.
From
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(Paris-Lyon-Méditerranée) by Henri Christine, the Côte d'Azur is a recurring character.
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