LA CONFÉRENCE DES OISEAUX (SPEECH OF THE BIRDS)

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Based on a Persian tale by Farid Al-Din Attar, one of the most beautiful poetic narratives of all time, 2e2m offers a dreamlike voyage to the Orient, orchestrated by Michaël Levinas and Lilo Baur, with major performers: soprano Raquel Camarinha, nominated at the 2017 Victoires de la Musique, and actors Lucas Hérault and Hervé Pierre from La Comédie Française.

Urged on by the hoopoe, messenger of love, thirty pilgrim birds go on a voyage of initiation in search of their King. This lyrical, narrative production sculpts the acoustics of a piece in constant transformation permeated by the birds' cries and calls. The concerns are contemporary ones: the quest for identity, questions about relations between politics and religion, feminine and masculine.


Duration / 1 h 00

Libretto based on a Persian tale by Farid Al-Din Attar, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière.

Production 2e2m. Coproduction Grame, National center of musical creation, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet. With support from FCL, Fonds de création lyrique, Spedidam and In Extenso. Thanks to Henri Selmer Paris.

Michaël Levinas

Music & libretto

Pierre Roullier

Music direction

Lilo Baur

Staging

Frédéric Taieb

Assistant stage director

Agnès Falque

Costume designer

Bernadette Beaudet et Jean-Pierre Van Wambeke

Scenery

Gilles Gentner

Lights designer

Max Bruckert

Computer Music Designer

Étienne Graindorge

Sound engineer

Raquel Camarinha soprano, the Hoopoe

Lucas Hérault actor, the Birds

Hervé Pierre actor, member of La Comédie-Française, Narrator

Ensemble 2e2m

PRACTICAL INFORMATIONS

Tuesday 6 march 2018 / Champigny-sur-Marne / 20 h 30

Centre Olivier-Messiaen

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Thursday 15 march 2018 / Oullins / 20 h 00

Biennale Musiques en scène 2018 / Grame

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69600 Oullins


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Friday 6 april 2018 / Paris / 20 h 00

Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet

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Saturday 7 april 2018 / Paris / 20 h 00

Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet

Square de l'Opéra Louis-Jouvet

7 rue Boudreau

75009 Paris

 

M7 Opéra / M3 & 9 Havre-Caumartin / RER A Auber


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Tuesday 10 april 2018 / Paris / 19 h 00

Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet

Square de l'Opéra Louis-Jouvet

7 rue Boudreau

75009 Paris

 

M7 Opéra / M3 & 9 Havre-Caumartin / RER A Auber


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Wednesday 11 april 2018 / Paris / 20 h 00

Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet

Square de l'Opéra Louis-Jouvet

7 rue Boudreau

75009 Paris

 

M7 Opéra / M3 & 9 Havre-Caumartin / RER A Auber


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