Decameron

So in this in camera setting, the only thing that matters is the urgency to create.

A masterpiece of the Middle Ages, The Decameron was the first great popular bestseller, a whirlwind of saucy, romantic, cruel and burlesque stories, a theater of the world where princes and pirates meet, wiles and desires, illusions and truths. But here, no reconstruction: just ten bodies to embody it all.

For this creation overturns the codes of opera. No orchestra, no hierarchy of disciplines: first and foremost, a theatrical feast, abolishing the boundaries between singing, speaking and acting. Matteo Franceschini and Caroline Leboutte give their subject a troupe-like energy, punctuated by an organic score that blurs the boundaries between styles.

Telling stories is already resistance, and finding each other is already choosing hope. Le Décaméron does not judge or decide. It provokes, amuses, sometimes disturbs; it celebrates what binds us together, and challenges what divides us. Above all, it reminds us of one essential thing: in the midst of turmoil, salvation comes from the collective.

World premiere.

Sung in several languages with French surtitles.

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