La Voix humaine
Cast
- Director: Margaux Loire
- Outside view: Jean Lacornerie
- Robin Le Bervet - piano
- Margaux Loire - Elle - lyric soprano
Director's note
A landmark piece of twentieth-century French opera, this tragedy features a woman (alone) in the midst of a love affair, on the telephone for fifty minutes. Jean Cocteau called this character "Elle", as if to allow everyone to identify with and recognise themselves in this slow agony hanging by a thread. Despite bursts of life in the face of his various interlocutors, the silences of the character consumed by the feeling of abandonment have a poignantly intense central place in Francis Poulenc's opera. Finally, Cocteau wrote of his friend from the Groupe des Six: “My dear Francis, you fixed once for all, the tone of my text.”
This Voix humaine allows many artists to dream, as if spending time with this work allowed them to situate themselves elsewhere. It is with this work that Margaux has been growing musically and artistically since 2016.
Long feature
La Voix humaine is also a a short film. To know more about it, click here!
Madone et Putain
Cast
- Co-directors: Amélie Charbonnier et Leslie Gruel
- Joseph Birnbaum - Athos - piano
- Raphaël Bougy - Faros - cello, composer and tenor
- Alix De Guérines - Macha - soprano
- Mélanie Haas - Emy - clarinets
- Margaux Loire - Eta - lyric soprano
- Félix Merle - Edo - baritone
Director's note
“Madone et Putain” is the fruit of a long elaboration on what it means to be a powerful woman. The interplay between the subjects of prostitution and religion is questioned, the parallels between these two idealised figures are raised while retaining the paradoxes specific to each, and a sisterhood essential to their survival is outlined.
These women all asked themselves the same question: how to deflect oppression? Perhaps by paying for sex. Perhaps by renouncing the world to live within thousand-year-old walls like nuns. Or perhaps by creating communities of trust?
La Journal de Clara
Cast
- Flore-Elise Capelier - Marie Schumann - piano
- Mélanie Haas - Eugénie Schumann - clarinets
- Margaux Loire - Julie Schumann - lyric soprano
Director's note
In 1871, Clara Schumann, the great pianist, was on tour in Paris. While waiting for her return, Marie, Julie and Eugénie, three of Clara and Robert Schumann's seven children, gather around the family piano. They question their lives and their future, through their childhood memories and the life and writings of their mother. As they interpret their parents' music, what will they discover about the life of this family of artists? Filled of curiosity, the sisters read their parents' diaries in music.
Dear Santa
Cast
- Artistic direction: Oper'Elles
- Sarah Audry - Père-Noël - piano
- Marielle Boutelier - Lutin - mezzo-soprano
- Margaux Loire - Lutin - soprano
- Sarah Nardon - Lutin - soprano
Director's note
A new creation by Oper'Elles that makes opera voices accessible! This time the princesses are replaced by elves who are busy making sure that this year's Christmas is absolutely perfect! Santa is in a bit of a bind because he's lost all the children's Christmas letters. But don't worry, disaster is averted and the magic of Christmas triumphs!
Les Princesses et la Lune
Cast
- Stage direction: Patrick Zarb
- Artistic direction: Oper'Elles
- Sarah Audry - The Storyteller - piano
- Marielle Boutelier - Charlotte and The Prince - mezzo-soprano
- Margaux Loire - Cassandre - soprano
- Sarah Nardon - The Moon, Fairy Godmother - soprano
Director's note
By combining multi-generational references, this lyrical tale touches the hearts of all, young and old. We wanted to write a show that would take the skeleton of a classic fairy tale. Like a puppeteer, our storytelling pianist pulls the strings of this poetic and humorous story, mixing modern and traditional elements. The extracts of works sung in 5 different languages, ranging from baroque to contemporary, offer audiences from novices to connoisseurs a complete immersion in the world of opera.
We have created an eccentric and demanding troupe dedicated to the art of opera.
80 dates between 2018 and 2023, Festival Off Avignon 2019 and 2022.
SORCIÈRES
Cast
- Stage direction: Margaux Loire
- Kseniya Ilicheva Garcia - theorbo
- Karolos Zouganelis - piano
- Margaux Loire - soprano
Director's note
The witch is dangerously powerful and carries within her a song of freedom. Her independence is feared, her know-how envied and her position in society disturbing. She is monstrous, and after her death, her magic flows through the veins of her descendants.
This programme and the staging take us into very different musical and poetic worlds, illustrating the complexity of this emblematic being.
DNSPM, CNSMDP, June 2022
