Stage Music

Silence

A chamber operina for 1 mezzo-soprano, 1 baritone-bass, 1 comedian and 10 musicians.

Music by Alexandre Desplat, libretto by Alexandre Desplat and Solrey after Silence by Yasunari Kawabata.

January 25, 2020 | Yokohama (Japan)

At Kanagawa Prefectural Music Hall, Yokohama (Japan) - Saturday January 25, 2020 at 14:00 ˃ BOOK HERE

January 18, 2020 | Kyoto (Japan)

At the ROHM Theatre Kyoto - 13 Okazakisaishoji-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto City 606-8342 Japan - Saturday January 18, 2020 at 14:00

Alexandre Desplat - composer, librettist, conductor
Solrey - librettist, co-music director, stage director, video

Romain Bockler - Bass-baritone
Judith Fa - Soprano
Laurent Stocker - Narrator
And Ensemble United Instruments of Lucilin: Fabian Perdicizzi, Danielle Hennicot, Ingrid Schoenlaub, Sophie Deshayes, Gionata Sgambaro, Pierre Golse, Marcel Lallemang, Max Mausen, Chritelle Pochet and Guy Frisch.

Charles Chemin - Assistant to stage director
Reihhard Biichsel - Technical director

World Premiere Tuesday Februari 26, 2019 at Grand Théâtre, Luxembourg

Silence is a short story by Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata whose subtle and nuanced universe, written in fluid and poetic prose, has inspired the duo of composer Alexandre Desplat and director-musician Solrey to create a chamber opera. At the heart of the story lies the creative process, the mystery of writing, death, life after death, of memory and the power of imagination. In this existentialist ghost story, a young writer goes to visit an older one who has suffered a stroke and can no longer speak or write and even refuses to make any facial expressions or gestures - as if the negation of himself had become his last affirmation. This silence leads the protagonists to engage in one-way conversations, in turn generating thoughts for the phantom patient. Composer, orchestrator, conductor and double Academy Award-winner, Alexandre Desplat is, with over hundred scores and numerous awards to his credit, one of the most worthy heirs of the French film scoring masters. Just as Kawabata's literature opens the reader's imagination to infinity, Desplat's cinema scores evoke evanescent melancholy, sustained emotions and subtle sensations and thus create the perfect connection to the invisible and intangible matter of this novella whose title is already very musical.

Director Solrey has gathered a team comprising Pierpaolo Piccioli to create this mysterious universe and Luxembourg's United Instruments of Lucilin will perform the music of this new chamber opera.

At Grand Théâtre, Luxembourg, 1 Rond-point Schuman, L-2525 Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
In french, with subtitles in french and english
· Tuesday Februari 26, 2019 at 20:00
· Wednesday Februari 27, 2019 at 20:00
Estimated lenght 1:15 (no intermission)
Introduction to the opera 30 minutes before each show (in french)

At Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, 37bis Bd de La Chapelle, F-75010 Paris (France)
· Saturday March 2, 2019 at 20:30 ˃ Reservations here
· Sunday March, 3 2019 at 16:00 ˃ Reservations here