Festival Les Musiques
One of the masterpieces of Persian literature, The Conference of the Birds by the poet, Farid ud-Din Attar, inspired Michaël Levinas with a lyrical form which did not take a wrinkle thanks to its visionary conception of space and time.
Duration / 1 h 00
Libretto based on a Persian tale by Farid Al-Din Attar, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière.
Festival Les Musiques organized by gmem - CNCM Marseille.
Production 2e2m. Coproduction Grame, National center of musical creation. With support from FCL, Fonds de création lyrique and Spedidam.
Music & libretto
Music direction
Staging
Frédéric Taieb
Assistant stage director
Agnès Falque
Costume designer
Bernadette Beaudet et Jean-Pierre Van Wambeke
Scenery
Gilles Gentner
Lights designer
Max Bruckert
Computer Music Designer
Étienne Graindorge
Sound engineer
Raquel Camarinha soprano, the Hoopoe
Lucas Hérault actor, the Birds
Nicolas Lormeau actor, member of La Comédie-Française, Narrator
Ensemble 2e2m
Saturday 11 may 2019 / Marseille / 20 h 00
La Criée-Théâtre National de Marseille
30 Quai Rive Neuve
13007 Marseille
From €9 to €25
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