Thursday 17 February 2022, 8.45pm
Théâtre Alexandre Dumas, Saint-Germain-en-Laye
Tuesday 22 February 2022, 8.30pm
Espace culturel et de Congrès René Cassin, Fontenay-le-Comte
Tuesday 1st March 2022, 8pm
Cité des Congrès de Nantes
Baroque en scène
Sunday 13 March 2022, 7.30pm
Béla Bartok National Concert Hall de Budapest
MÜPA Budapest
Saturday 26 March 2022, 8.30pm
Sunday 27 March 2022, 2.30pm
Opéra de Reims
Friday 1st April 2022, 8.30pm
Espace Culturel Boris Vian, Les Ulis
Tuesday 12 April 2022, 8.45pm
Théâtre Olympia d'Arcachon
From Saturday 23 to Monday 25 April 2022
Palais des Congrès du Touquet Paris-Plage
Les Nuits baroques du Touquet
Friday 13 May 2022, 8.30pm
Théâtre de Suresnes Jean Vilar
Wednesday 24 August 2022, 8.30pm
L'Entracte, Scène conventionnée de Sablé
Casting
Vincent Tavernier, stage director
Les Malins Plaisirs
Le Concert Spirituel
Marie-Geneviève Massé, choreography
Cie de danse L’Eventail
Claire Niquet, sed
Erick Plaza-Cochet, costumes
Carlos Perez, lights
With
Lucie Edel
Yannis François / Nicolas Brooymans
Malins Plaisirs' comedians
Pierre-Guy Cluzeau, Marie Loisel, Laurent Prévôt, Quentin-maya Boyé, Maxime Costa
Cie de danse l'Eventail's dancers
Annne-Sophie Ott, Clémence Lemarchand, Artur Zakirov, Romain Di Fazio, Pierre Guibault
Concert Spirituel's orchestra
Timing : 1h30 without intermission
From 8 year old
Coproduction : Les Malins Plaisirs, Le Concert Spirituel, L'Eventail, Angers-Nantes Opéra,
Le Grand T de Nantes, Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing, Operas Massy, Reims and Grand Avignon, Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Théâtre Montansier de Versailles, La Barcarolle - Théâtre du Pays de Saint-Omer, Théâtre Alexandre Dumas de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, and Touquet-Paris-Plage.
Le Concert Spirituel receives the support of the Île-de-France Region for this project.
Comedy-ballet in three acts
Le Mariage forcé is the second comedy-ballet composed by Molière and his first real collaboration with Lully. The composition in successive "sketches" is still typical of the ballet de cour from which the comedy-ballet derives, and in this respect quite close to Les Fâcheux (1661).
By creating a subtle general movement alternating between acceleration and rest, Molière and Lully composed a work in which their mutual fantasies could be given free rein. This movement is the one that should animate the performers, but also the stage set-up to be transformed - evoking a "ville de théâtre", as mobile as the "sketches", as colourful as the characters and their costumes, as whimsical as the script.
Argument
Sganarelle, feeling his age coming on, is about to put an end to his celibacy, hoping to find in the ravishing Dorimène a wife to his liking - that is to say, at his exclusive disposal - to fulfil all the household's responsibilities without question, including, of course, the birth of a child! But the future wife does not see it that way. After she has explained to the baron how she envisages her future existence (...very free...), Sganarelle, worried, and even alarmed by an inauspicious dream, seeks advice from those around him: a close but sceptical friend, grandiloquent philosophers, fortune tellers and even a magician and his demons. When he finally decides to renounce this dangerous union, the father and brother of the beautiful girl, too happy to get rid of an uncontrollable daughter, force the fiancé to keep his promises with a baton!
