Marie-Eve Signyrole is one of the most requested and inventive directors. We remember Pop soup In 2016, an immersive and participative play inspired by his experience in volunteering where the public settled on stage, “at the table” and in music. More recently, Doll (2022) on the 7th Symphony by Beethoven dealt with the subject of migrant women. In this continuity, Marie-Eve Signyrole and the playwright Louis Geisler are interested in Ladder From Luigi Cherubini, to the dimensions of the foreigner and the monster.
A trahie exiled
Ladder de Cherubini (1760-1842) Mixture song and recitatives spoken in Alexandrians. At the baguette Jean-Marie Zeitouni heads the choir and the Montpellier orchestra. It reveals the dramatic intensity of this lyrical work, the dark tones for the darkness of the subject, and the dramatic silences. Cherubini prefigured the orchestral language of romanticism by intense expressiveness. “” The orchestra of Ladder is designed to amplify the tragic of the action and translate the interior torments of the characters, in particular of Medea itself “Recalls the conductor. The choir witnesses key moments, it represents the emotions of the people by colors and affects.
The character of Medea is extremely demanding in vocal level and in the dramatic role, he is interpreted by the soprano Joyce el-Khoury. It explores with a strong scenic presence a wide range of emotions.
For this new production, Marie-Eve Signyrole has chosen to introduce a preamble in the form of a letter. Medea is a betrayed exile, she left her country, hers and finds herself repudiated in a country that is not hers. So that Jason (tenor Julien Behr) obtained the Golden Fleece, Medea betrayed his father, his homeland, assassinated his brother in an atrocious way.
But Jason will marry Drcial (the soprano Lila Dufy), the daughter of King Creon (the Basse Edwin Crossley-Mercer), in Corinth, in the current Greece. Dracé serves as an exchange currency for the Golden Fleece and Jason prefers Medea to power and money. His revenge will be terrible.
Documentary opera
Adorned with a golden coat, a gold set, in Act I, she loses her riches to become a woman similar to her counterpart on stage: another woman incarcerated for children’s crime. The actress Caroline Frossard is this prisoner, she sees memories common to the two mothers: breakfasts, swing games …
On stage, three black walls with a murderer open onto a cyclorama. The live camera is as close as possible to the expressions of children. They are those of Médée and the incarcerated woman. The imaginary space with souvenirs images is also the palace of King Creon, the church-temple where the marriage of Dirccé and Jason was to take place, the room in which Médée finds his children, and the prison of this contemporary Medea.
The atmosphere is sublimated by the lights of Philippe Berthomé. This creator of the lighting as he defined had proposed an exhibition on site At the comedy opera with its blown bulbs in Murano, dressing the premises and covering the three graces with filament.
Marie-Eve Signyrole registers her work in the documentary opera to reveal a difficult social environment. She does not want to judge, and to make it possible to understand these often cornered women who extend their desire to die by the assassination of their children. The postulate is that it is the company that creates the monster. These infanticide women perpetuate violence suffered (case of incest, domestic violence). With the playwright Louis Geisler, she relies on the documentary Perpetuity mothers de Sofia Fischer, recently scheduled on Arte.
The myth was also written and rewritten by men. Marie-Eve Signyrole wishes to develop other interpretations, social and feminists.
Fatma Alilate
Médt de Luigi CERUBINI (1760-1842)
Comedy Opera, Montpellier
Opera-comic in three acts on a French booklet by François-Benoît Hoffmann and created on March 13, 1797 at the Feydeau theater in Paris.
Saturday March 8, Tuesday March 11 and Thursday March 13, 2025
An hour before the shows, the Opera orchestra and the students of the Master “Valorization and mediation of heritage” from the Paul-Valéry University offer a heritage visit to the Opera Comedy. Free upon registration within the limit of available places, reserved for people in possession of a ticket for the performance.
Medea (2025) © Stefan Brion | New National Theater production of Opéra-Comique. COPRODUCTION OPERATION National Orchestra Montpellier Occitanie, Insula Orchestra.
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