OPERA XXI / L'autre hiver
Dominique Pauwels

Two travellers appear out of nowhere and meet on the gangway of an abandoned boat. They converse: about the voice of the sea, about a French lesson for students from London, and the beauty of firearms... They introduce themselves very formally as Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. Elsewhere, on another gangway, a child is slumbering. The swelling singing of the mother rises above the noise of the waves. This scene lodges in the conscience in search of its own fallen angel. The light that shone so brightly in childhood has completely disappeared. ‘Je’ est un autre – ‘I’ is someone else.
Production LOD muziektheater, Mons 2015 Capitale européenne de la Culture, le manège.mons, UBU compagnie de création. Coproduction enoa, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, deSingel Antwerpen, Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Théâtre français du Centre National des Arts Ottawa, Festival TransAmériques, La Rose des Vents scène nationale Lille métropole Villeneuve d’Ascq, Musiques Nouvelles. With support of Stad Gent, le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, le Conseil des Arts du Canada, le Conseil des Arts de Montréal, De Munt.
1 h 20 min
The creators
Dominique Pauwels
Dominique Pauwels
Music
Normand Chaurette
Libretto
Denis Marleau + Stéphanie Jasmin
Denis Marleau + Stéphanie Jasmin
Direction
Denis Marleau + Stéphanie Jasmin
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Musiques Nouvelles
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Filip Rathé
Conductor