After the popular success of “ Tutu » his previous project, the choreographer Philippe Lafeuille and his company « Chicos Mambo » revisit with humor and fantasy, the opera « Carmen » by Georges Bizet.
It is the most performed opera in the world. It’s also a playlist of hits, each more well-known than the last, engraved in the collective memory: “ Carmen », by Georges Bizet, libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, adapted from a short story by Prosper Mérimée.
So we saw and heard Carmen, in all kinds of productions. But a bald and bearded Carmen, her hairy chest showing, who sings the Habanera in her head voice, I had personally never heard. It required the energy, fantasy, humor and talent of the dancer and choreographer Philippe Lafeuille and his company, “ Chicos Mambo » to revisit Bizet’s work with a 100% male cast, and offer in just one hour, a joyful comedy-ballet that takes your breath away and chases away many stereotypes.
The show is called “ Car/Men » takes place in the Théâtre Libre arena until February 3.
Philippe Lafeuille is the guest of VMDN.
On the Café Gourmand menu:
- Solène Gardré went to see “ Cosmos » the new play by Maëlle Poesy and Kevin Keiss to be applauded until January 21 at the Théâtre Gérard Philippe, CDN de Saint-Denis
- Emma Garboud-Lorenzoni met the Haitian painter Shneider Léon Hilaire, for his first personal exhibition in France “ Nou ak sa n pa wè yo – Us and the Invisibles » to see at the Magnin-A gallery in Paris.
- Camille Parsi visited the exhibition “ Tomorrow is canceled » at the EDF Foundation until September 29. An exhibition that questions our societies and our consumption habits.