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AT THE MOMENT

Witch: Sacred Stories

11 September at the Peterkirche in Basel

Purcell’s shortest oratorio, The Witch of Endor, transports us to the encounter between Saul, Samuel and the witch of Endor. The music is delivered with passion and intensity.
Charpentier, a prolific composer in the field of sacred stories, offers us an iconic French piece: Le Reniement de Saint-Pierre (The Denial of Saint Peter), a work that perfectly captures the essence of the genre.
In its quest for lesser-known works, the Il Caravaggio ensemble will present Ferrandini’s rare Il Pianto di Maria (The Lament of Mary), an expressive musical setting of the story of the Virgin at the foot of the cross.

New Production: L’enfant

2 and 3 October: Ravel’s "L’enfant et les sortilèges" at the Toulon Opera
Is it the nostalgia for a lost childhood, with its grand holiday homes and gardens teeming with moths and melancholy birds? Is it ‘the green paradise of childhood loves’, with a princess with flaxen hair and her prince bearing the crest of dawn? Is it not, above all, the indescribable tenderness of returning to one’s comforting mother? Ravel wrote to Colette: ‘Imagine all that a squirrel might say about the forest, and what that might sound like in music!’ Only compassion and love can free us from our solitude in the midst of nature. Ravel possessed the genius to recapture childhood at will.

"Solaris" by Othman Louati at the Théâtre de l’Athénée

24 and 25 November

Solaris explores the mysteries of a planet orbiting two suns and covered by an ocean that appears to possess a form of intelligence defying all human understanding. Through this work, Othman Louati and Jacques Perconte examine the way we inhabit the world, our relationship with knowledge and technology, as well as with love and spirituality.

Somewhere between cosmic fascination and existential reflection, Solaris invites us to move beyond the illusions of control and the logic of conquest, to rediscover a sense of humility in the face of the unknown. A sensory and poetic experience that invites us to grasp something of ourselves and our actions, amidst the confusion of reality, on our planet adrift in the infinity of space.

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