Disrupted by the events in Paris and with the first shows of its program canceled due to force majeure, the Manca Festival still wanted to stay the course, even if in a reduced format.
The weekend program remains for a conclusion that lives up to the standard of the event.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20 at 8 PM at Villa Paloma (New National Museum of Monaco)
*Soundplane Recital*
A stop in Monaco, for the duration of a “soundplane” recital, will offer us the discovery of an electronic lutherie instrument, conducted by Gaël Navard – composer, percussionist, electronic musician. His inspiration? That of “extraterrestrial” traditional music, directly emitted from the exoplanet Kepler, a neighboring planet to Earth 500 light-years away…
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21 at 8 PM at Francis Gag Theater, Nice
*Phaedra*
Another journey, another time, that of Antiquity, at the heart of Greek tragedy with “Phaedra” by Yannis Ritsos, the new musical spectacle by Cie Khroma. We meet Marianne Pousseur, who played “Ismene,” during MANCA 2011 in this new “opera for solo voice.”
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 22 at 6 PM at the Nice Côte d’Azur Opera
Paris Mozart Orchestra / Natalie Dessay
The string musicians of the Paris Mozart Orchestra, conducted by Claire Gibault, will close this musical week alongside soprano Natalie Dessay and an original work by Graciane Finzi on the universe of Edward Hopper…
