Author of refined, accessible and willingly facetious music, Gerard Pesson cultivates with mastery the art of poetic evocation. With the writer and stage director David Lescot, he proposes an adventure through three fairy tales, where marvels are treated with fantasy and delicacy.

With the patronage of Societe Generale.

Trois Contes
Gérard Pesson (born in 1958)

Libretto David Lescot 
Opera in three parts based on La Princesse au petit pois by Hans Christian Andersen, Proust’s Overcoat by Lorenza Foschini and The Devil in the Belfry by Edgar Allan Poe 

Conductor Georges-Elie Octors 
Stage director David Lescot

Serts Alwyne de Dardel 
Costumes Mariane Delayre 
Lights Paul Beaureilles 
Video Serge Meyer 
Choir Master Christophe Manien 

With Maïlys de Villoutreys, Melody Louledjian, Camille Merckx, Enguerrand de Hys, Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin, Marc Mauillon, singers

For The Devil in the Belfry, 
Narrator Jos Houben 
A dancer

Ensemble Ictus

FAMILY DAYS

Sat 9 march noon-6.30pm
Happy Day UpperContes

Are there many ways to tell a tale ? With words, music or images  the composer Gerard Pesson and stage director David Lescot will give you many answers ! 
The ever-popular Happy Days will once again be a highlight of the new season. Free opportunity to take the family on a musical promenade through an opera, upside down and right side up, with concerts,  installations and other fun surprises ...
With the musicians of Ictus ensemble and the students of the Ecole Supérieure Musique et Danse Hauts-de-France-Lille.

Free access, recommended for children aged five and more
Complete programme available from october 2019

EXTRAS

Sun 16 september noon-6pm
European Opera Days
Focus on the music of french composer Gerard Pesson with the students of the Ecole Supérieure Musique et Danse Hauts-de-France-Lille

Free access (no reservation)only on sunday at Lille Opera

Wed 6 february
Wednesday Concerts (Ictus soloists cycle)

Sat 2 march 4pm
« Conversation » with Gerard Pesson (composer) and Jean-Luc Plouvier (artistic director of Ictus Ensemble)
With the support of Club Lyrique Régional
Free by reservation

Wed 6 march 5.30
Discussion and signing session with Lorenza Foschini, author of Proust’s Overcoat, at Le Furet du Nord library, Lille
Free access

Sun 10 march 3.30
Introduction to the opera and libretto, 30 minutes before the performance starts, in the Grand Foyer.
Free access with the ticket of the performance of the day.

Sat 10 march 3.30
Workshop Les 400 Coups 
Entrust to us your children aged 4 to 10 years old for a danced or musical workshop, while you attend the 4 p.m. Sunday performances. RELAX and enjoy the show! Specialized musicians will take charge of your children for an afternoon of interactive concerts, games on texts and sounds, games of listening in movement …  

Tickets for the workshop are 10€ for 1 child, then 7.50€ for each additional child.
Tickets to the performance must be shown when reserving at the Ticket office or by telephone (performance must be at the same times as the session for your children).
Arrival recommended thirty minutes before the performance (either at 3:30 p.m. or 5:30 p.m., depending on time of performance) to guarantee sufficient time to drop off your children and pick up your tickets at Ticket office.

Sun 10 march 5.30
After the performance : Discussion with the artistic team
Free access with the ticket of the performance of the day.

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