L’Autre hiver

Dominique Pauwels

07 - 10 May 2015

27 - 28 October 2016

@Théâtres de la Ville du Luxembourg

01 - 04 June 2016

@Festival TransAmériques, Montréal

25 - 28 May 2016

@Centre national des Arts, Ottawa

21 - 22 March 2016

@Maison de la Culture, Amiens

11 - 12 March 2016

@Teatro Maria Matos, Lisbon

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17 December 2015

@Théâtre des Salins, Martigues

10 December 2015

@Le Parvis, Tarbes

21 - 22 November 2015

@Théâtre du Nord, Lille

27 - 28 June 2015

@Printemps des Comédiens, Montpellier

21 May 2015

@Opera Vlaanderen, Gent

15 - 16 May 2015

@deSingel

07 - 10 May 2015

@Le Manège, Mons (Mons 2015 – European Capital of Culture)

Two travellers, coming from nowhere, meet on the walkway of an abandoned boat. They talk about the voice of the sea, a French lesson for London pupils and the beauty of firearms… They introduce themselves to each other as the law of art prescribes: Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine. On another bridge a child dozes. The singing of the mother swells and rises above the noise of the waves. This scene nestles in a conscience seeking its own fallen angel. The lights that once shone so brightly during childhood have now complete disappeared. Je est un autre (‘I is another,’ Rimbaud).

L’Autre Hiver is an opera of our time. On stage we see two singers, the Musiques Nouvelles ensemble, a children’s choir and a women’s choir. Physical characters are interwoven with figures in video projections, live voices mingle with recorded singing, and boundaries become blurred. They accompany the two travellers’ journey, a story that moves forward on a boat frozen rigid with ice.

L’Autre Hiver is the new opera by Dominique Pauwels, to a libretto by Normand Chaurette, and directed by Denis Marleau and Stéphanie Jasmin. Denis Marleau is a renowned Canadian director whose artistic vision is based on ground-breaking literary choices, extremely tight directing and an innovative use of audio and video technology.

Distribution

Music & sound installation Dominique Pauwels
Libretto Normand Chaurette
Direction, scenography & video Denis Marleau and Stéphanie Jasmin
Light design Eric Soyer
Video & montage Pierre Laniel
Design masks & images Claude Rodrigue
Make-up & hair Angelo Barsetti
Costumes Greta Goiris and Judith Stokart
Assistant set design Stéphane Longpré

Musical director Filip Rathé

Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles

Singers Lieselot De Wilde, Marion Tassou

Co-production

A production LOD muziektheater in co-production with the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation with the support of enoa and Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

Distribution

Musical director Filip Rathé

Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles

Singers Lieselot De Wilde, Marion Tassou