Music: Arnold Schönberg
New compositions: Rachel Fenlon
Text: Albert Giraud, French translation by Alphonse Cemin and Maxime Pascal
Pierrot entre 3 lunes is a contemporary opera and dance performance inspired by Arnold Schönberg’s groundbreaking masterpiece Pierrot lunaire. This all-new creation presents the original work in its entirety, with the addition of new compositions by versatile artist Rachel Fenlon. For these additions, the composer selected from the collection Pierrot lunaire: Rondels bergamasques by Albert Giraud and some of the poems left out of Schönberg’s own Pierrot lunaire. New electronic arrangements echo Schönberg’s poetic and musical themes.
Directed by Israeli-Canadian choreographer Idan Cohen, Pierrot entre 3 lunes is a unique production that fuses contemporary dance and opera. Through movement and theatricality, it explores a world of shifting identities. Cohen sees the clown as a queer entity that becomes a canvas for shifts in identity and social class, from cleaning lady to queen to clown. The show’s backdrop depicts the dichotomies between masculine and feminine, poverty and prosperity, otherness and belonging.
On stage, Mireille Lebel and Rachel Fenlon share the role of Pierrot, joined by dancer Will Jessup. Each is actively involved in the different facets of the show, blurring the boundaries between disciplines and creating a unique, poetic and touching work.
Rachel Fenlon
Idan Cohen
Karl Hirzer
Mireille Lebel
Rachel Fenlon
Karl Hirzer
Will Jessup
Austin Wu
William Foy
Mireille Duchesne
Mélanie Bourassa
Dominic Painchaud
