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Concert - Maria de Buenos Aires - Astor Piazzolla, Horacio Ferrer, William Sabatier

Music · Tuesday, December 1 · 20:00 · Aix-en-Provence

380 avenue Max Juvénal, Grand Théâtre de Provence

On the poetic and surrealistic booklet by Uruguayan poet Horacio Ferrer, Piazzolla, undisputed master of tango nuevo, created a dense work, with exceptional lyricism that accompanies, through its musical atmospheres, Maria's chaotic journey. Born in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the young woman leads a marginal life before being killed by the bandoneón and then saved by the love of the poet El Duende. The bandoneonist William Sabatier has managed to recreate this operita in its original form, deftly staged by Amélie Parias: the musicians and the three singers do nothing but…