Performing Arts
Hedda Gabler: we usually tolerate the inevitable
Roland Auzet presents a musical adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's play, Hedda Gabler. Hedda is bored with the mediocrity of her existence, and looking for a way to escape to another future. Sitting at a grand banquet, a tragic fate awaits her.
Dissatisfied with her condition and her marriage to Jorgen, H...
HELENA DELAND at la Gaité Lyrique, Paris
Songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and singer with a diaphanous voice, the Canadian Helena Deland navigates between folk, pop and rock.
With several EPs behind her, she has already toured the world’s stages, with or without her band, accompanying herself on the piano or guitar.
It was on her ow...
HELSINKI FESTIVAL
“Finland's largest multidisciplinary artistic festival invades the city, offering a very diverse and extraordinary program: classical or pop music concerts, theater or contemporary dance evenings, works of plastic arts or creations of the seventh art, children's events … At the Helsinki festival, ar...
IGGY POP at la Gaité Lyrique, Paris
Iggy Pop has been at the top of the punk pantheon for decades. As rebellious as ever despite his 72 years, in July 2019 the American delivered a set with jazzy and ambient influences based around his latest album, "Free", in the historic foyer of the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris.
Kaladjula Band
When the griot Naïny Diabaté decided to give Malian women a voice, the result was the Kaladjula Band, the first female instrumental ensemble in Mali.
Here, women aren’t just singers but in full possession of the instruments usually reserved for men.
Naïny Diabaté is now one of the most famous sing...
L’Ensemble Constantinople & Ablaye Cissoko : TraversÉes
From Mandinka sagas to Persian court music!
A conversation between the Senegalese kora of Ablaye Cissoko and the setar (long-necked Iranian lute) of Kiya Tabassian, the viola da gamba played by Pierre-Yves Martel and Patrick Graham’s percussion. The compositions reflect the deep complicity that has...
LA JUNGLE at la Gaité Lyrique, Paris
There are two of them, they are Belgian and they make a great deal of noise!
On guitar and drums, La Jungle has conquered their audience as much with their albums as with their stage performances. The duo doesn’t skimp on energy and sweat, with jumps that would qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, met...
Laurent de Wilde – Jazz at the Summit
As Laurent de Wilde tells his audience, "Thelonious Monk is a subject that can never be exhausted". After devoting a very beautiful book to him in 1996, the pianist has now dedicated an entire album to him, New Monk Trio.
On stage, accompanied by double bass player Jérôme Regard and drummer Donald...
Le Seigneur des Oiseaux
From the royal eagle to the splendid tawny vulture, taking in lanner falcons, steppe and harpy eagles, caracaras and buzzards, this extraordinary animal show appeals to young and old alike and touches the child within us all.
The myths and legends around these birds of prey and the tales of La Font...
