All performers are simultaneously musicians in this version of “Dido and Aeneas” and their musical arrangement reveals its origins in the world of jazz. Tragedy is spliced with comedy when aristocrats and gods descend into the apparently cheap format of modern everyday existence. In this seemingly disrespectful treatment of plot and music, “Le Crocodile trompeur” homes in on the essence of Purcell’s opera and reveals its mythological core – the eternal overpowering pain of being abandoned.
WITH Matthieu Bloch, Judith Chemla, Vladislav Galard, Florent Hubert, Clément Janinet, Antoine Kahan, Olivier Laisney, Thibault Perriard, Jan Peters, Jeanne Sicre, Marion Sicre and Lawrence Williams
MUSICAL DIRECTION Florent Hubert
MUSICAL ARRANGMENT the ensemble
DIRECTION OF CHORUS Jeanne Sicre
PRODUCTION Samuel Achache, Jeanne Candel
STAGING Lisa Navarro
COSTUMES Pauline Kieffer
LIGHTING Vyana Stefanova
LANGUAGES English, French and German with German surtitles
DURATION ca. 110 minutes / no interval
DISCUSSION WITH THE ARTISTS following the performance on 13.6.
* Tickets also permit free entry on 14.6. up to 00:00 to Peter Ablinger’s installation “Portrait of my Parents” in the Gallery.
A production by C.I.C.T. – Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in co-production with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, La Vie Brève, Comédie de Valence – Centre dramatique national Drôme-Ardèche, MC2: Grenoble, Le Radiant-Bellevue, Théâtre de Caen, Théâtre Forum Meyrin (Geneva) / With support from Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Arcadi, SPEDIDAM, DRAC (Île-de-France) / Financial support from Institut français and French Ministry for Culture and Communication, DGCA