A vocal, instrumental and electronic journey, Pain Maudit retraces the mysterious affair of the "bread that makes you crazy".
In 1951 in Pont-Saint-Esprit (Gard), some inhabitants were victims of food poisoning that turned into unbearable hallucinatory crises. A man thinks he is a plane and jumps from the second floor, a kid tries to strangle his mother. Filthy beasts, chimeras and colored flashes populate their delirium.
In this show, between fact and fiction, the singers deploy their singular vocal and theatrical capacities to make the victims' psychological flaws heard, but also the fears of political leaders faced with a crisis whose reasons have never been clearly elucidated.
Partnership
Théâtre Joliette
Production
Trepak association, Full Rhizome cooperative
Coproduction
La Muse en circuit-CNCM-Alfortville, GMEM - center national de création musicale, Théâtre de Vanves Partners Arcal lyrique
Institutional partners
DRAC Ile-de-France With the support of ADAMI and SPEDIDAM
Acknowledgements
Alexandre Pallu, Robin Chemin, Michèle Gagliano
Élise Dabrowski
singer, musician
Élise Dabrowski began her career with the Maîtrise de Radio France singing in Olivier Messiaen's Trois petites liturgies de la présence divine and in Mahler's third symphony with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Seiji Ozawa. She has had the opportunity to participate in numerous creations by Thierry Pécou, Édith Lejet, Gérard Condé, Claude Ballif. She was selected by the Centre d'Art Lyrique de la Méditerranée where she perfected her voice. Engaged at the Junger Künstler Festival in Bayreuth to sing Malher's Knaben Wunderhorn, she particularly enjoys the German repertoire. She devotes herself to contemporary creation: La Rhésérection by Jonathan Pontier, Chant d'hiver by Samuel Sighicelli, La Métamorphose by Michaël Lévinas with the ensemble du Balcon conducted by Maxime Pascal, Avenida de los Incas by Fernando Fiszbein at the Lille Opera with Le Balcon, Bureau 470 by Tomas Bordalejo, Crumbling Land co-produced by the Lille Opera 2016-2017 (associate composer and performer), Winter Journey by Jelinek and Sébastien Gaxie, Jacob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm at the Théâtre de l'Athénée Louis Jouvet. In parallel, she leads a career as an instrumentalist (double bass) and singer, crossing the two disciplines in new proposals. She composes and plays on stage in Quelque part au cœur de la forêt (directed by Claude Buchvald, Parcours Jeunesse Théâtre de la Ville)... She is also active on the jazz and improvised music scene alongside artists such as Louis Sclavis, Bruno Chevillon or Joëlle Léandre. In 2018, she is the artistic director of TREPAK, Comment s'en sortir sans sortir poetic opera is given at the Théâtre de Vanves, Théâtre l'Echangeur in Bagnolet and Scène Nationale l'Hexagone in Meylan. Pain Maudit, his next creation will be created on December 13, 2019 at the Théâtre de Vanves.
Angèle Chemin
singer, musician
Angèle Chemin grew up in a family of artists and began acting in the theater under the direction of her father Philippe Chemin at the age of five. After beginning her musical studies with the transverse flute, she trained as a lyric artist with Elsa Maurus, Robert Expert and Malcolm Walker. A multi-faceted artist, she loves contemporary creation and collaborates with composers such as Michaël Levinas, Stefano Gervasoni, Helmut Lachenmann, Bernard Cavanna, Georges Aperghis, Daniel D'Adamo, Roland Auzet, Mathieu Bonilla, Élise Dabrowski... Among his recent creations and performances, the operas Bureau 470 by Tomas Bordalejo, Forge by Gabriel Philippot (Opéra de Reims), HIP127 or the constellation of storks, opera for soprano and seven jugglers (direction Daniel Kawka) by Roland Auzet, Jérôme Thomas and Martin Palisse (Limoges Opera and national tour), Tingel Tangel by Georges Aperghis for soprano cymbalum and accordion with Françoise Rivalland and Vincent Lhermet (Festival Musiques démesurées, Lille Opera, Onassis Cultural Center in Athens). Passionate about chamber music, Angèle Chemin is a member of the Maja Ensemble, in residence at the Singer-Polignac Foundation since 2016 and plays with the Ensembles 2e2m, Le Balcon, MDI in Italy, Vydia in Switzerland, the Cello Octet of Beauvais and the Trio Fauve among others. In 2019, she is Young Talent of the Saint-Denis Festival in duo with the harpist Annabelle Jarre. The concert Chemins de Traverses in trio with Françoise Rivalland and Vincent Lhermet is recorded by France Musique in January 2018 for Arnaud Merlin's program Le Concert du Soir. In May 2018, she was invited with the Trio Fauve to participate in Gaëlle Le Gallic's program Génération Jeunes Interprètes. Angèle Chemin recorded Sanjo IV for solo soprano by Eunho Chang in Warsaw, the 5 Magic Pieces and the opera Le joueur de flûte de Hamelin by Yassen Vodénitcharov.
Vincent Vantyghem
baritone
Vincent Vantyghem, baritone, discovered singing with the bass Stephen Richarson, studied in Germany with Alain Buet, Margreet Honig and Valérie Millot. He performed in recital at the Lille Opera House with Christophe Simonet ( Schwanengesang by Schubert). He sings as a soloist in numerous oratorios under the direction of Yves Parmentier. At the opera, Eutyro in Ercole Amante by Cavalli conducted by Gabriel Garrido (Ambronay Academy). The 2nd Tyrian Prince in Cadmus and Hermioneby Lully (Poème Harmonique Vincent Dumestre/B.Lazar Opéra Comique), the 2nd notary in La Périchole by Offenbach (Opéra de Lille/J.C Casadesus), the Musiklehrer in Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss (Fondation Royaumont/A.Engel), Zaretski in Tchaikowski's Eugene Onegin (Lille Opera/P.Verrot/JY.Ruf), Calcante in Favart's La Bohémienne (Les Paladins/J.Corréas-Lyon Opera/A.Fornier), the Egoutier in Terrasse's Secret Boot at the Théâtre de l'Athénée with the Les Brigands company. In July 2012, he performed the role of Wozzeck by Alban Berg at the interpretation masterclasses at Royaumont under the direction of André Engel. Vincent Vantyghem regularly collaborates with the ensemble le Balcon directed by Maxime Pascal in General in Le Balcon by Jean Genet and Peter Eötvös at the Athénée theater, then in the role of the Father in Kafka's Metamorphosis composed by Mickaël Lévinas. He was L'Autre at the Lille Opera in Arthur Lavandier's Premier Meurtre. He sings the title role in Jakob Lenz at the Dialoge festival in Salzburg in 2016 and which will be revived in 2019 at the Athénée theater. He also sings under the direction of Alphonse Cémin at the CRD of Genneviliers creating the role of Ramirez, a bureaucratic opera composed by Tomas Bordalejo.
Éric Broitmann
composer, performer
Éric Broitmann is a composer, performer of acousmatic music and creator for live performances. He is particularly interested in the beauty of sound and develops games of perception that highlight the plasticity of this musical material. His research leads him to work on the notion of the gap, which he explores in different worlds: musical, cinematographic, literary. He sprinkles them with realities, more or less concrete objects, syntheses, artificial or not spaces and plays with these ambiguities to open up listening, to put it into action, including in abandonment. His pieces have been performed in various international events: Elektrophonie, Espace du Son de musique et recherche, Synthèse festival, Palais de Tokyo, Futura festival, GRM, France Musique, Présence festival...
Joliette Theater
2, place Henri Verneuil13002
Marseille
DURATION
1h00
RATES
Full 13€
Reduced 10€
Pass 16€ (including Fissures - 7pm)
Reduced Pass 6€ (upon presentation of the Festival Pass)
BAR AND RESTAURATION
On site (Bar du Théâtre)
AND ALSO
ARTISTS' WORDS
8:00 pm
Theatre Studio
With Élise Dabrowski
Élise Dabrowski
mezzo-soprano, double bass and composition
Éric Broitmann
composition and live electroacoustics
Angèle Chemin
soprano, flute
Vincent Vantyghem
baritone
Alexandre Pallu
voice over
Manon Geffroy
light creation
Olivier Buthaud
lighting and general management
Jean-Benoit Nison
directing support