Romeo i Julia by Blacher, wt 12 lut 2019, od (2019/2019), W reżyserii Jean Lacornerie,, Dyrygent Emmanuel Calef, Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse, Lyon, Francja

In love with Berlin and close to the avant-garde of Paul Hindemith and Kurt Weill, influenced by Milhaud and Stravinsky, Boris Blacher was a popular composer in Germany in the 1930s. from his position at the conservatory in Dresden, the Nazis considering his cheerful and festive music as "degenerate" and "Jewish", Blacher nevertheless continued to compose and to be performed. Forced into exile, it was in Austria that Blacher wrote his Romeo and Juliet , a deliberately minimalist work – it must, context requires, be able to be played everywhere –, anti-romantic and radical. Faithful to Shakespeare's original language, it is nevertheless distinguished by an astonishingly modern cast of characters. The lovers of Verona being incarnated in turn by a group of singers, the notion of character is then exploded to collectively carry a Shakespearean poetry that rubs shoulders with the musical tradition of the Berlin cabaret.