Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien

Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien


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Mystère in 5 Acts, 1911 - Text Gabriele d’Annunzio - Music Claude Debussy

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Lisbon, 2013
Arsenal de Metz, Cité de la Musique, Paris, 2012

CAST
Musical direction, Alain Altinoglu / Michel Tabachnik
Staging, set design and videos, Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Deloeuil
Lighting design, Rick Martin
Micha Lescot (The Saint) ; Karen Vour’ch (The Mother) ; Eric Bougnon (The Father) ; Blanche Konrad (The Maid) ; Marie Kalinine, Pauline Sabatier (The Twins, Paris, Metz), Marianne Crebassa (Lisbon)

PRODUCTION
Cité de la Musique, Arsenal de Metz, Brussels Philharmonic, Fondation Gulbenkian, Clarac-Deloeuil > le lab

        

                 

Special support from Fondation Orange and Palazzetto Bru Zane - Centre de musique romantique française 

           

ABOUT
Combining medieval archers with modern-day tattoo artists, this cutting-edge adaptation of Debussy’s Martyre de Saint Sébastien bridges the gap between religious theater and contemporary quest for spirituality. As a consequence of their mystical encounter with Sébastien, each of the 5 characters of the play decides to have the key sentence of the piece tattoed on their skin : "Seigneur, je suis une âme dans ton sein".
Combining music, theater and videos, this theatrical rendition of the oratorio confronts the medieval tradition of Christian plays with the famous movie Theorema by Pier Paolo Pasolini, set in an upper class family, whose 5 members progressively discover their Faith, thanks to an attractive messenger named… Sébastien.

Martyre de Saint Sébastien Debussy Cité de la Musique, Paris, Arsenal de Metz, Fondation Gulbenkian Clarac Deloeuil Altinoglu
Martyre de Saint Sébastien Cité de la Musique, Paris, Arsenal de Metz, Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbonne Debussy Clarac Deloeuil Altinoglu
Martyre de Saint Sébastien Debussy Cité de la Musique, Paris, Arsenal de Metz, Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbonne Clarac Deloeuil Altinoglu
Martyre de Saint Sébastien Debussy Cité de la Musique, Paris, Arsenal de Metz, Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbonne Clarac Deloeuil Altinoglu
Martyre de Saint Sébastien Debussy Cité de la Musique, Paris, Arsenal de Metz, Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbonne Clarac Deloeuil Altinoglu
Martyre de Saint Sébastien Debussy Cité de la Musique, Paris, Arsenal de Metz, Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbonne Clarac Deloeuil Altinoglu
Martyre de Saint Sébastien Debussy Cité de la Musique, Paris, Arsenal de Metz, Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbonne Clarac Deloeuil Altinoglu
Martyre de Saint Sébastien Debussy Cité de la Musique, Paris, Arsenal de Metz, Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbonne Clarac Deloeuil Altinoglu
Martyre de Saint Sébastien Debussy Cité de la Musique, Paris, Arsenal de Metz, Fondation Gulbenkian Lisbonne Clarac Deloeuil Altinoglu