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Êtes-vous amoureux ? - NOX#1

Setting up as of the 2020-2021 season, the Opéra national de Lorraine implements the NOX (Nancy Opera Xperience), a laboratory for lyric creation. 
Its aim is to rethink the way an opera is produced by inviting artists to work during a long period, in an informal dialogue, elaborating a production in close association with the region. 
For its first edition, the Opéra national de Lorraine brings together international artists invited to express their vision of Nancy. 
Are you in love? is the indiscreet question we asked the people of Nancy from the summer of 2019 to the winter of 2020. Their anonymous stories have been recorded, set to music and reinterpreted by four soloists. The lyrics have not been rewritten or altered: they are rendered in their raw state, true to their original documented recordings. 
12 shorts films have been shot on 12 locations around Nancy to reproduce these 12 love stories.
We invite you to discover these scenes on this interactive map or by walking around Nancy and flashing QR codes displayed at the shooting locations.
While the health crisis has dispossessed us of public space, we wish to offer you these scenes of love life, the opera of a city, composed of these anonymous stories. 

Every story is a melody, every melody is a story.Paul Brody

Cast

Êtes-vous amoureux ? opéra interview
Nancy Opera Xperience #1

World premiere
New production

Online launch on 25 March


Music Paul Brody

Texts Chloé Kobuta, based on interviews of inhabitants of Nancy conducted in collaboration with Alexandra Levinger

Conductor Jonathan Stockhammer

Orchestra and Chorus of Lorraine National Opera

Choirmaster Guillaume Fauchère


Concept Kevin Barz & Paul Brody

Director and video Kevin Barz

Scenography Lisa Navarro

Costumes Pauline Kieffer

Lighting Henning Streck

Director of Photography Johannes Wagner

Assistant director Ester Pieri


With Guillaume Andrieux, Lionel Peintre, Pauline Sikirdji, Léa Trommenschlager


Sound recorded by Little Tribeca

 

With the complicity of the City of Nancy, the Metropole of Greater Nancy, the City of Vandœuvre‑lès‑Nancy, the City of Villers‑lès‑Nancy, the City of Saint‑Max, the City of Laxou, the Stan network, the Ensemble Poirel, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, the Cinéma Royal, the Alfred Nakache swimming pool, the supermarket Auchan La Sapinière, the Le Grand Sérieux brewery and the Bowling Alley at Les Nations.

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