Théâtre de la Ville

Salle Jean-Louis-Millette

150 De Gentilly Est St.

Longueuil

75 min.

Without intermission

Premiere and creation at Festival Classica

Tango Boréal Productions (The Letters of Chopin) returns to the Classica Festival with a new creation: a chamber opera inspired by the melodies of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy, with a libretto in French by Denis Plante. The story immerses us in the artistic fervor of Paris at the end of the 19th century. In a modest workshop in Montmartre, Rose supports her brother, an ambitious painter trying to recreate a lost masterpiece. Rose's dedication is put to the test by the unexpected arrival of a mysterious girl with flaxen hair.

Nouvel Opéra Métropolitain

La Fille aux cheveux de lin

Libretto, stage direction, adaptation and orchestration : Denis Plante

Adaptation and orchestration : Antoine Plante

Stéphane Tétreault, cello and musical direction  

Amelia Keenan, mezzo-soprano (Rose)
Marie Bégin, violin  
Dominique Bégin, violin

Elvira Misbakhova, viola

Charles Roberge, performer (The Painter)
[Dancer to be announced], dancer (The Girl with the Flaxen Hair)

MUSICAL SOURCES

Claude Debussy  (1862-1918)

La fille aux cheveux de lin

String Quartet in G minor

Valse romantique

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

String Quartet in F major

La vallée des cloches 

Tzigane

Habanera

Pavane

Manteau de fleurs

LITERARY SOURCES

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

Enivrez-vous

Petits poèmes en forme de prose

Program

Tableau 1 — Dévouement

Tableau 2 — Le modèle

Tableau 3 — La fin de mois

Tableau 4 — Repassage

Tableau 5 — Le 7e jour

Tableau 6 — Crucifix

Tableau 7 — La Fille aux cheveux de lin

Tableau 8 — La muse de la discorde

Tableau 9 — La fée verte

Tableau 10 — Enivrez-vous

Tableau 11 — Le gitan

Tableau 12 — Le nombre d’or

Tableau 13 — L’épouse de Satan

Tableau 14 — Les fleurs du mal