Chamber music, especially in France, still sometimes suffers from an unfounded reputation: difficult, abstract music? Jean-Philippe Clarac and Olivier Delœuil from the Le Lab collective will prove to us that this is not the case, quite the contrary!
With their Schubert Box, a plastic and musical proposal, they invite the public to a whole new approach to chamber music. A soprano and three instrumentalists evolve in an autonomous cubic space, an image box, for an opera-concert of a renewed genre, combining music, lights and video creation. Chosen from among the most famous works of Franz Schubert, ten Lieder are here adapted by the composer Bernard Cavanna, who mixes sounds and musical atmospheres, allowing for example the accordion – a popular instrument if ever there was one – to make its place in these jewels of Romantic music. The Schubert Box thus becomes a sensitive and poetic music box, resolutely open to everyone.
"Clarac-Deloeuil > Le Lab" is in residence at the Limoges Opera and received the prize for best creator of scenic elements 2017/1018 from the Professional Association of Theater, Music and Dance Critics.
