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Chorégies d'Orange: a mobile opera house in a truck

2021-07-28T16:02:22.800Z


The festival ends this weekend at the ancient theater, but continues on the roads of the South ... By truck!


At the back of the 14-meter semi-trailer, an ephemeral bar in seventies colors.

With its fridge in the colors of the Union Jack.

Her portrait of Frida Kahlo.

His references in Vietnam.

Its plaid or frayed flower blankets.

Its recycling tables and ottomans as tired as the counter ...

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This isn't the latest nostalgic food truck.

But the most unexpected novelty of the Chorégies d'Orange in 2021!

A mobile opera house.

Itinerant version of one of Donizetti's masterpieces, his

Elixir of Love

.

"An

Elixir

as beautiful as a truck"

, laughs Jean-Louis Grinda.

The festival director admits:

“This project was running through my head, but I would not have implemented it so quickly without the crisis.

This opera on a semi-trailer was really to give work to young artists in this very special year. ”

"

Target an audience unfamiliar with lyric

"

Created on July 19 on the Esplanade Verdi, in Orange - a stone's throw from the Ancient Theater, which serves as a big stage for the Chorégies - the show was resumed

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Source: lefigaro

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