Les Arts Florissants

«Si Shakespeare était dansé»

09.11.2023 19:30,

Grand Auditorium

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Les Arts Florissants
William Christie direction
Paulina Francisco soprano
Georgia Burashko, Rebecca Leggett, Juliette Mey Mezzosopran
Rodrigo Carreto, Ilja Aksionov ténor
Hugo Herman-Wilson baryton
Benjamin Schilperoort baryton-basse
Compagnie Käfig, Samuel Florimond, Anahi Passi, Alary Ravin, Daniel Saad, Timothée Zig danse
Mourad Merzouki mise en scène, Choréographe
Rémi Autechaud assistance à la chorégraphie
Claire Schirck costumes
Fabrice Sarcy lumières
Sophie Daneman conseils linguistiques

Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen

The Fairy Queen – loosely based on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream – is about the confusion arising when gods, elves, young lovebirds and oafish craftsmen share the stage. Henry Purcell classified his work as a semi-opera, leaving plenty of room for dance in so-called masques. Les Arts Florissants and William Christie have therefore teamed up with Mourad Merzouki’s Compagnie Käfig to give Purcell’s baroque sounds a special twist, drawing on the dance company’s urban-inspired choreographic idiom.