shows

XIII ORGANA

vocal music by Arnaud Petit – texts Valère Novarina – translated by Léopold von Verschuer

Staging Christine Dormoy assisted by Elodie Brémaud then by Bernard Bloch, Stage design Philippe Marioge , Costumes Cidalia Da Costa  Musical computing Nicolas Déflache | Benjamin Maumus (GMEA) Lights and stage managing Emmanuel Bassibé

With

Géraldine Keller, soprano [Compagnie le Grain]

Martin Nagy, tenor and Guillermo Anzorena, baritone [Neue Vocalsolisten]

And the vocal presence of Daniel Gloger , contre-tenor and Andreas Fischer , bass [Neue Vocalsolisten]

Sung extracts are derived from the book Lumières du corps by Valère Novarina (P.O.L. Publishing 2006)

Thirteen small polyphonies (from two to five voices) in which each voice is a warped/ distorting mirror. The singer/narrator watches herself in what will be her accomplice or possible protagonist. Those multiple mirrors, thanks to the computer, make eventually appear, in space, the splits of the subject.

 [Arnaud Petit 2007]

For the franco-german creation of the work in 2009, Arnaud Petit contrasted the organa of the feminine voice with all the components of the masculine spectrum.

 [Christine Dormoy 2009]

Seven out of the thirteen Organa are sung in the show Ajour .

Coproduction Le Grain Théâtre de la Voix  | Opéra National de Bordeaux  | Grand Théâtre de Reims  | Centres nationaux de création musicale : Cesaré et GMEA 2009 - La Muse en Circuit 2007. Partnership Musik der Jahrhundert Stuttgart  | Institut Français de Berlin | Festival Scènes d'Europe Reims. With the support of Stiftung Genshagen  | Conseil Régional d’Aquitaine.

XIII organa is a MUSICAL COMISSION of the COMPAGNIE LE GRAIN with the support of the SACEM as part of the three-years residence of Arnaud Petit in the Compagnie le Grain.