Dracula @ Opéra de Lille
2, rue des Bons Enfants
59001 Lille
Dracula, a monumental fresco in 8 episodes, fusing excerpts from recordings of Wagner's opera with electronic music, is conceived as a "film without image".In its original version, the fusion is given both through the musical material and through the medium: in both cases, the tapes are broadcast by loudspeakers. Their mode of appearance is conditioned by the same gesture made by the performer at the broadcasting console. Here, Le Balcon proposes a version with an instrumental and electronic ensemble.Radical in his thirst for sounds and music, Pierre Henry was a pioneer of electronic music, but also of the delicious bite of works, paving the way for the popularization of sampling, remix and extended mix.In Dracula ou la musique troue le ciel, he gives Wagner's Tetralogy a metamorphosis, transforming the Wagnerian mountain into a "film without images", full of sighs and fires, fury and voluptuousness.This project explores a new aspect of spatialization through the work of Pierre Henry.As an extension, Le Balcon invites Jacques for a second part of the evening, paying tribute to the work of Pierre Henry.
