
© Rolline Laporte
Rachel Burman / Opéra Foe
SLIDESHOW
musictheatre
Friday, February 9, 2018
8:00 PM
Saturday, February 10, 2018
8:00 PM
Sunday, February 11, 2018
2:00 PM
A woman recounts her childhood while presenting a slideshow of family photographs. Behind these tender snapshots lurks a shocking secret. Her songs - by turns wistful, liberating, increasingly unhinged – will reveal the hidden story. A window opens, intimate, half-dreamed, on the life of a 1970's Québecois family... and the turbulent mind of the woman remembering it all.
The singer's own family photos provide the inspiration and visual material for her fictional narrative. Four inventive musicians accompany the irresistible mezzo-soprano Marie-Annick Béliveau in interpreting this intensely free operatic score, laden with beauty and trouble…