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Funeral Blues
Funeral Blues, the Missing Cabaret is, in many ways, the jazz show that Benjamin Britten and W.H. Auden would have written, if their relationship had been staged with their own words and music.
Our aim, through the power of the simple and funny writing of the librettist of The Rake’s Progress, the precision of Auden’s short, tight, biting poetry, and the swinging tunes of Cabaret Songs composed by the young Benjamin Britten, is to bring to life this imaginary duo of British artists in a homoerotic changing room of an imaginary boarding school.
Inspired by the existing recordings of their encounter and of their work in the thirties and the forties in London and New York, our production develops and imagines the platonic, but brutal, love that they shared, and reveals the way that it is expressed by subliminal innuendos of Auden’s poetry and the answers that Britten’s music gives.
Olivier Fredj
By Wystan Hugh Auden
Music and songs Benjamin Britten
Stage direction Olivier Fredj
Sets Philippine Ordinaire
Costumes Frédéric Llinarès
Lightning Nathalie Perrier
With
Richard Clothier (actor), Cathy Krier (piano) and Laurent Naouri (baritone)
Production Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Coproduction C.I.C.T. – Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord ; Théâtre De Caen (In progress)
Duration of the show : 1h25 (without intermission)
In english, with french subtitles
Prices
Full price Cat. 1 = 32€ Cat. 2 = 25€ Cat. 3 = 18€ |
Reduced price* Cat. 1 = 28€ Cat. 2 = 22€ Cat. 3 = 15€ |
Youth price** Cat. 1 = 26€ Cat. 2 = 21€ Cat. 3 = 14€ |
Season ticket prices
Full price Cat. 1 = 25€ Cat. 2 = 20€ Cat. 3 = 14€ |
Reduced price* Cat. 1 = 22€ Cat. 2 = 18€ Cat. 3 = 12€ |
Youth price** Cat. 1 = 21€ Cat. 2 = 17€ Cat. 3 = 11€ |
(*) Reduced price: over 65yrs or unemployed (proof required). Group discounts (10+ people)
(**) Youth price: under 26yrs (proof required)
Press contact
MYRA
Rémi Fort and Valentine Arnaud
01 40 33 79 13 / myra@myra.fr / www.myra.fr
Opus 64
Valérie Samuel and Christophe Hellouin
01 40 26 77 94 - c.hellouin@opus64.com / www.opus64.com