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Perrine Devillers

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Lieselot De Wilde

Yannis François

Nicholas Merryweather

Lucile Richardot

Antonin Rondepierre

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Jos Houben

Emily Wilson

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Sébastien Daucé

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Christophe Schaeffer

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Oria Puppo

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Katherina Lindekens

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Cupid and Death

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Cupid and Death Locke

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Théâtre de l'Athénée Louis-Jouvetdu 18 au 27 novembre 202120h, 16h le dimancheNés au XVIe siècle en Angleterre, les « masques », ou plutôt masks, avaient pou...

"Cupid and Death" (Cupidon et la Mort) from November 18 to 27, 2021 at the Athénée 8 p.m., 4 p.m. on Sunday Ensemble Correspondances Musical direction Sébastien Daucé A mask by James Shirley Music Matthew Locke, Christopher Gibbons Staging Jos Houben, Emily Wilson Sébastien Daucé is the musical director of the piece, with his Ensemble Correspondances. Born in the 16th century in England, the "masks", or rather masks, had the characteristics of mixing music, song, dance, theater, grandiloquent decorations... in the service of a figure of power whose qualities were praised. All elements that would later flourish in the Baroque gesture and that we find in French court performances. 'Cupid & Death', a mask with five entries, begins with an inversion: Cupid launches his arrows on two lovers and kills them, while death pricks with points of love two old men ready for death. The libretto by playwright James Shirley, adapted from an Aesop fable, imagines the consequences of what love become dead and death transformed into love would generate: a capital chaos where polarities are reversed, where nature goes mad and enemies discover themselves friends… Ensemble Correspondances Musical direction Sébastien Daucé A mask by James Shirley Music Matthew Locke, Christopher Gibbons Staging Jos Houben, Emily Wilson Soloists Perrine Devillers, Lieselot De Wilde, Yannis François, Nicholas Merryweather, Lucile Richardot, Antonin Rondepierre Actors Fiamma Bennett, Soufiane Guerraoui Ensemble Correspondances Organ, virginal and direction Sébastien Daucé Violins Josèphe Cottet, Château d'Hardelot – Cultural Center of the Entente CordialeCoproduction: Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet With the support in residence of the creation of the short life – Théâtre de l'Aquarium. The Ensemble Correspondances thanks Vincent Meyer for his support. With the support of the National Music Center.

'Cupid and Death' - interview with Sébastien Daucé

Born in the 16th century in England, the "masks", or rather masks , had the characteristics of mixing music, song, dance, theater, grandiloquent decorations... in the service of a figure of power whose qualities were praised. All elements that would later flourish in the Baroque gesture and that we find in French court performances. Cupid & Death, a mask with five entrances, begins with an inversion: Cupid shoots his arrows at two lovers and kills them, while death stings with points of love two old men ready to die. The libretto by playwright James Shirley, adapted from an Aesop fable, imagines the consequences of what love become dead and death transformed into love would generate: a capital chaos where polarities are reversed, where nature goes mad and enemies discover themselves friends…

A spirited variation of deadly love that the duo of directors Jos Houben and Emily Wilson, accustomed to discrepancies and games of bodies and objects ( La Princesse lumière , 2017), will passionately renew.

Cupid and Death by Locke, From (2021/2021), Directed by Jos Houben, Emily Wilson,, Conductor Sébastien Daucé, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, Paris, France

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