Eros and Thanatos.
Love and death, once again intertwined.
It is the judicious idea of Olivier Py to bring together at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées two short operas, which we do not always know what to pair with:
Le Rossignol
, by Stravinsky, and
Les Mamelles de Tirésias
, by Poulenc.
The first, created in 1914, is a childish and nostalgic fable inspired by Andersen.
The second, created in 1947, a surreal sketch taken from Apollinaire.
To articulate them, one could count on the intelligence of his duo with the decorator Pierre-André Weitz.
Here we are in Zanzibar, not only the place of the action of Les
Mamelles
, but a cabaret inspired by one of the first homosexual bars which existed in Cannes in the 1920s. In the first part, we are behind the scenes, where we activates.
A dying man is regenerated there by his love for a fantasized bird, in reality a very beautiful woman in red: it is the singer who is changing to enter the stage.
In the second, we see the show that…
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