Les Mille endormis, Adam Maor

This summer, United instruments of Lucilin had the great honour of participating in the Sleeping thousand World Premiere at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence.

A thousand administrative prisoners are on a hunger strike. The Prime Minister decides to plunge them into a sleep which will distract international attention. And that is when the thousand sleepers cause the Israeli people insomnia. Consequently, it becomes urgent to send an emissary into the world of dreams…

Through their dreamlike parable, which oscillates between seriousness and lightness, the composer Adam Maor and the dramaturge Yonatan Levy, both Israelis, talk about a torn apart country, a multi-cultural society that its governing authorities no longer see as an organic whole, but rather as an irreconcilable mosaic. Their multicoloured opera is in turns whimsical and dreamy, to be premiered at the Festival d’Aix before an international tour, is shot through with one certitude: “there is no homeland other than the space between one soul and another.”

Broadcast Live on 10 July on France Musique !

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Elena Schwarz, conductor. Yonathan Levy, libretto and stage director. Julien Brun, stage designer. Anouk Schiltz, costume designer. Omer Shizaf, lighting designer. Amir Farjoun, dramaturge.

United Instruments of Lucilin

André Pons-Valdès, violin. Danielle Hennicot, viola. Jean-Philippe Martignoni, violoncello. Hennning Sieverts, double bass. Marcel Lallemang, clarinet. Frin Wolter, accordion. Guy Frisch, percussions. Pascal Meyer, clavier and electronics live.

Tomasz Kumięga, Prime Minister. Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod, Nurit, his assistant. David Salsbery Fry, S, Head of Secret Services. Benjamin Alunni, a voice of the World (Minister of Agriculture/demonstrator/cantor).

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A co-production with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg / Ircam-Centre Pompidou / Helsinki Festival / Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbonne) / Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie/De Munt (Bruxelles) / Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel

With the support of Enoa and Programme Europe Creative of the European Union.

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Prices: 70€, 50€, 30€
Young person’s tariff: 9€

1 hour without interval

Sung in Hebrew with French and English surtitles