8th ÉDITION
6 OPERA CREATIONS IN PROGRESS
Come discover excerpts from 6 operas in the making, in a wide variety of proposals, from chamber opera to musical theatre, with a detour through pocket opera and multidisciplinary performance.
WAKING THE WITCH
Ashi Day, music & libretto (United States)
LOST IN PLAIN SIGHT
Takuto Fukuda, music (Canada/Japan) & Patrick Leroux, libretto
BARBARA
Luis Ernesto Peña Laguna, music (Canada/Cuba) &
Pierre Berlioux, libretto
HOUSE ON FIRE
André Ristic, music & Cecil Castellucci, libretto (Canada)
SONGS OF THE DROWNING
Roozbeh Tabandeh, music (Canada/Iran) &
Sandeep Bhagwati, libretto
HORT/GARDEN
Elena Tarrats & Mario G. Cortizo, music (Spain)
Helena Tornero, text & Damien Bazin, soundscape
SOLOISTS
Florence Blain Mbaye, actress | Camille Espaignol-Jacques, soprano | Michal Aloni, mezzo-soprano | Marie-Annick Béliveau, mezzo-soprano | Min Sang Kim, counter-tenor | Joseph Grenier, baritone
Saturday August 24, 2024, 7:30 pm
Sunday August 25, 2024, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
Espace Bleu, Édifice Wilder
1435, Bleury Street, Montreal
General Admission : 10 $
This 8th edition will be preceded by a week of activities, meetings, discussions and exploration around lyrical creation.
AUGUST 19 TO 23, 2024
UQAM’s Department of Music, room 3080
PROGRAMME:
August 19, 4:00 pm // Workshop for Secondhand Time Opera by Yuliya Zakharava
August 20, 5:00 pm // Ce projet-ci, lecture-performance by Sylvain Paré & Timon Vandroux, in collaboration with the National Theatre School
August 21, 5:00 pm // Raccoon Opera, lecture-performance with Rebecca Gray, in collaboration with Musique 3 Femmes
August 21, 7:00 pm // Sainte Marine in Progress, lecture-performance around Chants Libres’ new creation
August 22, 5:00 pm // Roundtable discussion with Oper’Actuel composers and performers, moderated by Florence Blain Mbaye
August 22, 7:00 pm // Screening evening Si Chants Libres m’était conté… hosted by Daniel Turp with Pauline Vaillancourt
A presentation by Revue L’Opéra
August 23, 12:00 pm // The Margins of Music, lecture-performance with Mario G. Cortizo (Spain)
All activities are free and open to all.
OPER’ACTUEL | Works in progress is a highlight event of Chants Libres, which helps bring to life new operas while also familiarising young singers and the public with new forms of musical expression.
For this 8th edition, Chants Libres is inviting Florence Blain Mbaye as curator of the event. An interdisciplinary performer, professional oboist, actress and singer, Florence aims to develop a programme that invites the world of opera creation to question the nature and role of the singer, the opera performer in his or her vocality, musicality and physicality, and in his or her relationship with the composer and librettist.
At a time when operatic creation must work to decolonise and decompartmentalise, what role can the singer play in this process?
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