Show "Petite balade aux enfers"

Théâtre de Caen, 135 Boulevard Maréchal Leclerc

Honey, I shrunk the opera! Who said the opera is neither funny nor for kids? A preconception that Valérie Lesort overturns with mischief in this mini-opera with… mini-singers! Here, the plot of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice is reduced to fifty minutes and the heroes to… 80 cm! The ruse? The singers, the performers are part of the puppets like puppeteers. Creatures of all kinds descended from the underworld complete this tender and wacky reinterpretation. Lighting, illusions and shadow theatre complete the whole. The story, it remains the same. Eurydice …