Shows

Bach

The Art of Fugue, Jean-Sébastien Bach's incomplete masterpiece, in a version for eleven instruments and five musicians who play with the fugues in a gold and red scenery, reflection of the great composition workshop.

"Yves Charpentier draws a sumptuous ethereal tone from his flutes, the oboe combines French suppleness and German softness, Jean-Christophe Murer, clarinettist, plays wonderfully; the bassoon is astounding with virtuosity and the horn player strikes up with a burning temperament. Great Art…"
La Liberté / Fribourg (Suisse)

music : Jean-Sébastien Bach
new concert version by Olivier Dejours
Lights, scenography : Agnès Laurent et Georges Peltier
Duration : 90 mn
creation 1996 – en coproduction avec le théâtre de Villefranche-sur-Saône
recorded by Espace 2, Radio Suisse Romande (1998)
autour du spectacle : concert commenté « Fuguons ! Bach ou la fugue dans tous ses états »

Mozart (,) de Vienne ?

Mozart (,) de Vienne is a both a meeting and a confrontation between a living composer Bernard de Vienne and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

For Mozart, the desire to embrace the Lumières and ideals of the 18th century. For de Vienne the whish to seize the changes of the 21st century. Both invite the wind instruments for their incantatory powers and combine them with the delights of a played, spoken and sung conversation.

Musical creatione : Bernard de Vienne
Direction : Yves Charpentier et Bruno Belthoise
Scenography : Katrin Bremermann assistée de Solène Besnard
Lights : Philippe Andrieux
Adaptation and actor directing : Béatrice Belthoise
Costumes : Emmanuelle Ballon
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Le concert impromptu and Bruno Belthoise, piano

Prophetic Attitude

Frank Zappa « Rock is great, Zappa is his prophet »
21 concentrated tubes of Zappa, from "King Kong" to "Uncle Meat" played in a choregraphic and luminous hopscotch, counterpoint to the lyrical and psychedelic verses of the prophet.

"…Each member of the group alone is an outstanding soloist. Together they make an absolutely wild cocktail and the Zappa fans go nuts, thank you Impromptu…"
Télérama

Music : Frank Zappa, quintet version : Jean-Michel Bossini
production : Maud Tizon
lights : Philippe Andrieux
duration :70 mn
creation :1997
in coproduction with the Theatre de la Renaissance
CD Prophetic Attitude, l’empreinte digitale

(concert version available)