by aindreas
Awatsihu, Philippe Forget’s New Opera
November 4, 2009 in Event, Music by aindreas
Philippe Forget is in rehearsals with his new Opéra, Awatsihu. It will première 12 November in Bron, near Lyon, France. And continue it’s run around Lyon, see below..
AWATSIHU, or how birds find their singing is an opera by Philippe Forget bathed in a pictorial world of Stephen Yver and directed by Claire Monot.
This piccolo opera is for five female voices and a clarinetist. It is a tale inspired by the Amazon and objects from the collections of the Museum of Lyon Confluences. It transports the viewer inside the rain forest, among the thousands of tributaries of the Amazon . There, the legend Xingu people learn how these extraordinary birds forests have found their songs.
Performances will be held at Espace Albert Camus de Bron, La Rampe d’Echirolles,Théâtre de La Celle Saint Cloud, Espace Baudelaire de Rillieux la Pape, and the Maison de l’environnement de Magny les Hameaux.
Philippe Forget’s Musique de chambre which was released a few months back.
