Nos Dames. Et si « Dame » ne rimait plus avec « Drame » ? Un « hommage dégenré » aux héroïnes d’opéra.

With Théophile Alexandre singing and the Zaïde Quartet: Charlotte Maclet, Leslie Boulin Raulet, Sarah Chenaf and Juliette Salmona.

Carmen : stabbed. Violetta and Mimi : ill. Norma : burned alive. Salomé and Dalila : crushed. Butterfly, Anna and Juliette : suicides. Lakmé, Phèdre and Adriana : poisoned. Tosca : defenestrated!?

Combining the beauty of lyrical singing and a new look at opera and its dramas, countertenor Théophile Alexandre and the Zaïde revisit the great arias of divas, from Carmen to Violetta, through Eurydice, Juliette or The Queen of the Night.

Together, they question the duplicity of the roles assigned to women in all these operas composed by men: celebrated but caricatured and corseted, virtuoso but dehumanized, magnified but martyred ... until the climax of their sublime
agony.

A lyrical show that shakes up the codes while paying a vibrant tribute to these great female characters and to the most beautiful operatic writings.

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