In Compiègne, a “Didon” without life but not without a voice

Three monoliths with copper reflections come forward on stage.

Without the faces and bare arms of the singers coming out of it, we would swear giant reproductions of the Caesars.

These statuettes with which the seventh French art has tirelessly congratulated itself for nearly fifty years.

Is the ceremony early?

In any case one always dies there of boredom.

Wanting to capture Henry Purcell's masterpiece

, choreographer Blanca Li seems to have missed her subject.

No doubt she didn't understand that a compact dramaturgy like

does not imply compressing the staging, as Baldaccini would have done with a Lamborghini.

Unless the intimate form of this English opera,

which she had staged twenty years ago (already with Les Arts florissants), did not intimidate her.

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Admittedly, the repeated slips of the six dancers (almost the only characters endowed with the slightest bit of life on stage), along the covered stage...

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