“There is still a week, we were not even sure that they could be there”
, breathes Patrick Foll, director of the Theater of Caen.
After a first postponement due to the Covid, the shortage of kerosene which rages on the African continent - a consequence of the war in Ukraine - almost jeopardized the opening of the season of the room.
But the twenty-five artists who make up the revisited version with South African flavor of Scott Joplin's opera
Treemonisha
are there, and it's a relief for the director Mark Dornford-May, co-founder of Isango, and Patrick Foll:
“This show aroused such curiosity that to meet demand we added a date
(this Sunday, Ed)
.
Postponing it again would have been heartbreaking.”
Especially since this adaptation of the opera
Treemonisha
must then be resumed in Créteil and then in Luxembourg.
Waiting for other international institutions to come forward.
“We are having discussions with the Royal Opera House in London…
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