THE SLEEPING THOUSAND

Adam Maor (1983)

New production of the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence

The Festival d'Aix thanks Jean-François Dubos (JFD Associés) for his support to creation of this work

A coproduction with Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Helsinki Festival, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon), Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie / De Munt (Brussels), Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel

With the support of enoa and programme Europe Creative of the European Union

A coproduction with Ircam - Centre Pompidou

Théâtre du Jeu de Paume

68101214July

— Opera— Incises

Libretto by Yonatan Levy
Comissionned by the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

WORLD PREMIERE

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Conductor

Elena Schwarz*

Stage Director

Yonatan Levy

Stage Designer

Julien Brun

Costume Designer

Anouk Schiltz

Lighting Designer

Omer Shizaf

Dramaturge

Amir Farjoun

Conductor Assistant

Antonin Rey

Stage Director Assistant

Amir Farjoun

Vocal Coach

Nathanel Bas

Computerized Sound Designer Ircam

Augustin Muller

Sound Designer Ircam

Serge Lacourt

Prime Minister

Tomasz Kumięga*

Nurit, his assistant

Gan-ya Ben-gur Akselrod

S, Head of Secret Services

David Salsbery Fry

A Voice of the World: Minister of Agriculture / Demonstrator / Cantor

Benjamin Alunni*

Ensemble

United Instruments of Lucilin

*Former artists of the Académie

Since the war, I had difficulty being in the company of men. Sleeping was my natural state of being. It was thus that I lived fully and this fulfilment was as necessary to me as air is to breathing.

Aharon Appelfeld: Le garçon qui voulait dormir, 2011

A thousand administrative prisoners are on a hunger strike. The Prime Minister decides to plunge them into a sleep which will distract international attention. And that is when the thousand sleepers cause the Israeli people insomnia. Consequently, it becomes urgent to send an emissary into the world of dreams… Through their dreamlike parable, which oscillates between seriousness and lightness, the composer Adam Maor and the dramaturge Yonatan Levy, both Israelis, talk about a torn apart country, a multi-cultural society that its governing authorities no longer see as an organic whole, but rather as an irreconcilable mosaic. Their multicoloured opera is in turns whimsical and dreamy, to be premiered at the Festival d’Aix before an international tour, is shot through with one certitude: “there is no homeland other than the space between one soul and another.”

[ INTERVIEW ] ADAM MAOR - COMPOSITEUR DE LA CRÉATION MONDIALE LES MILLE ENDORMIS

LE MONDE
A unique, seductive and provocative universe that is a mixture of political fable, philosophical tale and fictional parable.
LE FIGARO
Satirical, political and poetic, all at the same time.
OLYRIX
A new tale of 1,001 nights, in which the overall experience is corrosive and invigorating.
LUXEMBURGER WORT
A joy of contemporary opera.
LA MARSEILLAISE
A work that is fascinating, for both its music and its thought-provoking subject matter.

with the support of

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