The Purloined Letter - La lettre volée
Videopera
The videopera, filmed and projected live, follows the absurd pursuit of those in search of the letter. The only way to escape the madness is to use reason to find out the secret of this extraordinary letter. But what is reasoning? And how to reason correctly? Do mathematicians reason correctly? Or poets? Or the mad?
Six singers, the Sturm und Klang ensemble, the musical director Thomas van Haeperen, the young videographer Helga Dejaegher, students from École Supérieure des Arts, Arts2 the composer Denis Bosse, staged by Frederic Dussenne, are transformed into mathematicians, poets and madmen in this Videopera. They, thus, drag the audience along with them in a vertiginous, dramatic and existential mise en abyme.
- ARTISTIC DIRECTOR AND COMPOSER : Denis Bosse
- LIBRETTISTS : Pascal Nottet and Denis Bosse
- CONDUCTOR : Thomas Van Haeperen
- PRODUCER: Frédéric Dussenne
- ARTISTIC ADVISOR : Pierre Thomas
- SINGERS:
- Nicolas Ziélinski (Counter-tenor— Dupin)
- Sarah Defrise (Soprano — Le fou)
- Xavier de Lignerolles (tenor — Le préfet de Police)
- Kris Belligh (Bass-baritone — Le Ministre)
- Anne Matic (Mezzo Soprano — Reine)
- Thomas Van Caekenberghe (Baritone — Narrateur)
- MUSICIANS
- Ensemble Sturm und Klang
- Maxime Stasyk (violon 1)
- Loris Douyez (violon 2)
- Dominica Eyckmans (alto)
- Catherine Lebrun (violoncelle)
- Natacha Save (contrebasse)
- Justine Debeer (clarinette)
- Amaury Geens (saxophones)
- SzeFong Yeong (cor)
- Jean-Louis Maton (percussions)
- Olivier Douyez (accordéon)
- Marion Lambert (piano)
- VISUAL ARTS
- ARTS² (under the supervision of Jean-François Octave)
- SET AND VIDEO
- Helga Dejaegher
- ASSISTANT
- Emmanuel Selva
- COSTUMES
- Sara Signore
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PRODUCTION
Quart de ton in coproduction with Ars Musica, Théâtre de la Balsamine, Sturm und Klang, Forum des compositeurs/ Festival Loop and ART2
Supported by the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles, Conseil de la Musique Contemporaine.