THE MORNING LIST
We offer you a selection of concerts and festivals which will take place the last week of September, the first days of October, or which begin during this period. With in particular a dance opera by Thierry Pécou in Strasbourg then in Mulhouse, a recital in Paris by the famous American mezzo Joyce DiDonato, the Tribu Festival in Dijon which mixes neo-Occitan folk and Tuareg blues, a musical walk in Alfortville dedicated to the composer Luc Ferrari, the first dates of the Jeanne Added tour, the Nancy Jazz Pulsations, one of the oldest musical festivals, the two concerts in France by Canadian Dan Bejar, alias Destroyer…
“Until The Lions”, dance opera by Thierry Pécou
Always fascinated by ancient extra-European cultures and traditions, Thierry Pécou, born in 1965, composed his second grand opera inspired by the Mahabharata. This danced opera narrates one of the first episodes of the great Sanskrit epic, a mythical collection at the foundations of Hinduism and Indian culture: the abduction of the daughters of the king of Kashi by the hero Bhishma and the conflicting relationship between the latter and Princess Amba.
The librettist Karthika Naïr, of Indian origin established in France and writing in English, gives voice for the first time to the female characters of the epic (from the adaptation of her novel Until The Lions), while the London director and choreographer, Shobana Jeyasingh, mixes her dancers with those of the Ballet de l’Opéra du Rhin. It is to the young conductor Marie Jacquot, at the head of the Orchester symphonique de Mulhouse, that this world premiere has been entrusted. Marie Aude Roux
Opéra national du Rhin, 19, place Broglie, Strasbourg (Bas-Rhin), until September 30; La Filature, 20 allée Nathan-Katz, Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin), from October 9 to 11. From €12 to €68.
“Cupid and Death”, a baroque farce in the spirit of Monty Python
Presented in November 2021 at the Théâtre de Caen, this show in the form of a baroque farce had been one of the successes of the season. At the head of the singers and instrumentalists of his ensemble Correspondances, the harpsichordist Sébastien Daucé restores form and life (with some writing work) to the only « masque » 17th century Englishe century which has come down to us almost entirely. The libretto by James Shirley, inspired by Aesop’s fables, and the music by Christopher Gibbons and Matthew Locke explore the disorder caused by an edifying reversal of values: while Cupid sets about decimating young lovers, Death cheers up subdued old men . Between street theater and art commedythe crazy spirit of Monty Python inspired the staging of Jos Houben and Emily Wilson. M.-A. R.
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