Festival TransAmériques
CREATORS
Christian Lapointe, Libretto
Cédric Delorme-Bouchard, Music
PERFORMERS
Marie-Annick Béliveau, vocals
Yamato Brault-Hori, vocals
Ellen Wieser, vocals
Karl Lemieux, live film performance
Isabelle Bozzini, cello
Stéphanie Bozzini, viola
Clemens Merkel, violin
Alissa Cheung, violin
David Therrien-Brongo, percussion
Victor Alibert, clarinet
Antoine Malette-Chénier, harp
Yuki Isami, flute
Tuesday, May 27, 2025 | 8:00 PM
Wednesday, May 28, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Thursday, May 29, 2025 | 7:00 PM
Usine C
(1345 Ave. Lalonde, Montréal)
A production by Carte Blanche, in co-production with Festival TransAmériques, Chants Libres, Quatuor Bozzini, and the National Creation Fund of the National Arts Centre.

In 1959, 14 years after the atomic bombing in Hiroshima, Alain Resnais and Marguerite Duras drew upon its memory to create a film of rare beauty, a cinematic poem of love and death. Over half a century later, in a world that seems increasingly on the brink of irreparable harm, Australian composer Rósa Lind and Quebec director Christian Lapointe revisit this cult classic, revealing its operatic potential.
Paying homage to the film’s remarkable modernity and Duras’ uncompromising script, Lind and Lapointe deliver an opera that defies conventions and blurs the boundaries between disciplines. Developed in collaboration with the Quatuor Bozzini and the opera company Chants Libres, Hiroshima Mon Amour is a work for eight instrumentalists, three singers, and one live filmmaker. Like the film it is based on, it is a bold and passionate cry for peace.