It should have been played in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes for the opening of the 74th edition, at the signal of the clarines, in the sweltering of July nights.
The game of shadows
, commissioned by the director Jean Bellorini to Valère Novarina will have to be content with a rainy afternoon in October.
Under the vault of the Fabrica in Avignon, like next month at Gemini, the old myth of Orpheus is replayed.
Orpheus, no one is unaware of it, has to whom to hold: he is the son of Apollo, the musician god, archer, healer, the light god, the sun god, and grandson of Zeus through his mother, the so-called Calliope, herself a muse of eloquence.
Torn from the deceased Eurydice, Orpheus decides to join his love in the kingdom of the dead, crosses the Styx and reaches the underworld.
The loved one will be returned to him if he does not turn around.
Orpheus succumbs to temptation, meets his Eurydice's gaze and loses her a second time.
The tongue is a storm
The director Jean Bellorini backs this rewriting of the myth to
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