Orphée 2050

Come for the music, stay for the chills

2050 : Live performance has vanished !
Concerts are now only available in digital form, and your home-immersion setup feels as frustrating as it is limited. So when you're invited to a series of pop-up mini-concerts in unexpected places, you think it might just be a way to escape the abyssal boredom that has taken over your daily life.
That's when a pianist and two singers –talkative and slightly obsessive– sweep you into an operatic setlist that’s at times fiery, sentimental, and even politically engaged...
You rediscover the thrill of goosebumps in a musical bath, as you journey through the history of opera, from Monteverdi to Aboulker, with stops at Bizet, Mozart, Offenbach, Puccini, Handel, and many more !

Behind the Scenes of the Workshop
The spark that started it all: Caroline Adoumbou and Fanny Mouren, the artistic directors of Ensemble Brins de Voix, have long been performing the great (and lesser-known) arias of opera. And they came to me with a question that seemed simple on the surface: how do you turn this into a show, rather than just a recital? With that creative challenge in mind, I imagined a piece of “culture fiction” that transports us to the year 2050, an era where live singing has almost become mythical, like the voice of Orpheus, the legendary poet and singer.

– The extra touch : entrusting the stage direction to Bernard Rozet, known for his sharp sense of play and comedy.

– The challenge : to compose a bouquet with roses, lilies, daisies, foliage and begonias, without it feeling either mismatched or messy. Or to put it another way : to harmoniously blend Puccini, Mozart, Monteverdi, Rossini, Offenbach, Aboulker, Bizet, Handel, Verdi and Wagner !

– The pitfall to avoid : Making a grumpy, reactionary show with a “things were better in the old days” tone.

– What makes it unique : a dysto-comedy –a show set in the future, neither dystopian nor utopian–, but one that embraces irony and humor to explore the fate of what we call classical music.

– The promise : Orpheus 2050 makes opera rhyme with feminism, gender, politics, storytelling, society, social norms and even sociology !

– The artistic (dream) team : Caroline Adoumbou and Lucie André : vocals and performance / Maxime Alberti : piano and performance