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Show - Sù!, Imaginary Ballet
Show · Saturday, November 14 · 16:00 · Metz
L'Arsenal - Jean-Marie Rausch, 3 Avenue Ney
"Prima la musica e poi le parole" — with this motto, Claudio Monteverdi invented emotion in music at the dawn of the 17th century. Under his fingers, the voice is freed, polyphony is set alight, and a revolutionary art is born: opera, where singing becomes theater and where the body and the music are one. In this circus ballet, Geoffroy Jourdain and the Cris de Paris transform Monteverdi’s masterpieces into a sonic and visual choreography. Here, the singers do more than perform. They embody, they challenge balance, they make the music dance as Monteverdi would have wished…
