LE VILAIN
PETIT CANARD

World premiere

Dates :
July 29, 31 and August 2 at 7 p.m.
Location:
Henri-Gagnon Hall at Laval University
Running time:
Approx, 45 minutes
Prices:
General Admission
Regular $35
16 and under $10
30% discount with Festicarte

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1 877 643-8131

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A co-production of the Festival d'opéra de Québec and Productions Cont'Opéra

An operatic tale in four tableaux for soloists and chamber orchestra

Music: Jean-François Mailloux
Libretto: Jean-Philippe Lavoie

Once again, the association of the Festival d’opéra de Québec with JM Canada gives young opera artists a chance to showcase their talents and offers you a refreshing reading of Donizetti’s irresistible work, La Fille du régiment, which features ordinary characters where joy, emotion and events are expressed in music that is sometimes military, sometimes lyrical, sometimes made of popular melodies. This is certainly an event not to be missed!

With this operatic adaptation of Andersen’s famous fairy tale, festival-goers of all ages will fall under the spell of this eulogy to difference. What we see as ugly and unpleasant, ugly and counterfeit, is sometimes just a way of describing something we don’t understand. When we learn to overcome our fear of difference and dare to take a fresh look at others, we discover all their beauty.

Project Masters

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Direction musicale

Jean-François Mailloux

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Mise en scène

Ghislaine Vincent

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Mise en scène

Érika Gagnon

CONDUCTOR : Jean-François Mailloux DIRECTORS : Ghislaine Vincent et Érika Gagnon ASSISTANT DIRECTOR : Maëliss Mahé SETS: Claude Mercier et Jean-François Mailloux COSTUMES AND PROPS : Sophie Martel et Elena Stupa VIDEO : Xin Ting Zhou LIGHTS : Louis-Philippe Cloutier

Distribution

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LE VILAIN PETIT CANARD

Marie-Andrée Mathieu

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LA MÈRE CANE, LA POULE, UNE ENFANT

Carole-Anne Roussel

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LA VIEILLE CANE, UN JAR, UNE ENFANT

Elizabeth Veilleux

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UN CANARD, UN JAR, LE CHAT, UN ENFANT

Louis-Charles Gagnon

FLUTE: Juan Camilo Salcedo

OBOE: Éric Dufour

CLARINET: Charles Garant-Demers

BASSOON: Antoine Trépanier

VIOLIN: Guillaume Plouffe

VIOLIN: Aurélie Thériault-Brillon

VIOLA: Alexanne Trudelle-Caron

CELLO: Marie-Pier Gagné

PIANO: Jean-François Mailloux

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