The comedy of sex and power.
Such are
Lotte de Beer's
Les Noces de Figaro
.
Renowned for her engaged readings, the director had the idea of this new production by attending a dinner with personalities of very different ages, sexes and origins, and during which the spirits would have been heated around #MeToo .
“I was like, 'It's funny we can't have this conversation.
It's like we're all seeing a different movie. ””
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Festival of lyric art of Aix: as if nothing had happened ... or almost
Change the perspective of opera, depending on the characters who carry the story ... Such is his challenge for this crazy day revisited, which will embrace the exterior of a comedy series, Brecht's theater or feminist utopia.
With the conviction that Mozart's opera was, at the dawn of the Revolution, a resolutely political work.
When we take the Earl's perspective, we are in a “Cosby Show” atmosphere.
Lotte de Beer, director
“If each perspective has their own theatrical language, and their own way of working with jokes, then we can add them up and tell the whole story,”
she continues.
When we take the Earl's perspective, we are in a “Cosby Show” atmosphere (…) This is all just a joke.
But from Susanna's point of view, the comedy becomes burlesque, almost Brechtian (…), a clownish approach. "
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At the Aix festival, Pierre Audi plays with the lights
Whoever recognizes Pierre Audi as one of his main mentors will be able to count on the theatrical sense of the musical team.
From the Mozartian that is Thomas Hengelbrock, master of dramatic tensions nourished by the sounds of the period instruments of his Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, to the queens of the boards that are the former academics of the festival, Julie Fuchs and Lea Desandre.
The first will be the Countess, the second Cherubino.
The show promises a breath of fresh air.
June 30, July 2, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14, 16 at 9:30 p.m. at the Théâtre de l'Archevêché.
