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Free concert: Monsters and Chimera

Music · Friday, December 4 · 19:00 · Paris

Auditorium de l'Hôpital Bretonneau, 23 Rue Joseph de Maistre

Free

A concert told with piano and synthesizers, summoning monsters from European fairy tales and the spirits of Japan. Since humans fear the dark, they fill their nights with creatures. Classical music has always welcomed them with pleasure: fire-breathing dragons, ill-mannered ogres, ghosts in white shirts, but also amorous beasts and petted cats. The journey continues to Japan, with yōkai, the spirits haunting the nights. We also meet tsukumogami: everyday objects that come to life after a hundred years of existence. Here, these are i…