Name: Pinocchio
Start: 2017-07-03T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-07-16T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Grand Théâtre de Provence

Admin

Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Singer

Baritone

Stéphane Degout

Un directeur de troupe

1. Escroc

1. Meurtrier

Bass-baritone

Vincent Le Texier

Un père

2. Meurtrier

Un maître d'école

Soprano

Chloé Briot

Un pantin

Tenor

Yann Beuron

Un directeur de cabaret

Un juge

2. Escroc

3. Meurtrier

Mezzo-soprano

Julie Boulianne

Un mauvais élève

Une chanteuse de cabaret

Marie-Eve Munger

Une fée

Conductor

Emilio Pomárico

Stage director

Joël Pommerat

Set designer

Eric Soyer

Costume designer

Isabelle Deffin

Video designer

Renaud Rubiano

Lighting designer

Others

Klangforum Wien

French

Pinocchio

Aix-en-Provence

France

In tribute to the composer Philippe Boesmans, (re)discover one of his latest masterpieces: "Pinocchio", presented during the 2017 edition of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence. 
Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Pinocchio: Joël Pommerat never stops revisiting the tales that rocked our childhood. As usual, the man of the theater is here both librettist and director. A double hat that allows him to fully embrace the work of Carlo Collodi.

More faithful to the original tale than Walt Disney was, Pommerat therefore gives us a more ambiguous Pinocchio , more "tete-à-slap" too. For this production, he reunited in Aix-en-Provence with the composer Philippe Boesmans , with whom he had set up Au Monde , an opera as beautiful as it was poisonous.

It's up to Chloe Briotthat he returns to embody the famous puppet. Her wanderings lead her from a cabaret, to a circus, passing through a classroom. So many places where Pinocchio meets colorful characters who will help him draw a line between what is good and what is bad. A gallery of protagonists embodied by just a handful of singers: Marie-Eve Munger, Stéphane Degout, Vincent Le Texier, Yann Beuron… A troupe spirit dear to Joël Pommerat, carried by the music of Klangforum Wien and conductor Emilio Pomarico.

Grand Théâtre de Provence

Pinocchio Boesmans

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading