Le Colibri (The Hummingbird)
Saturday
07.05.2022
11:00 — Victoria Hall
family concert
family concert +
programme
Elisa Shua Dusapin
libretto
Christophe Sturzenegger
music
Joan Mompart
director
Mathieu Fernandez-Villacanas
Clémentine Le Bas
Matteo Prandi
comedian
Le Colibri (World premiere)
Commissioned and produced in collaboration with the Théâtre Am Stram Gram (libretto) and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (music)
the music
Joan Mompart presents Le Colibri (The Hummingbird), his first commission as director of the Théâtre Am Stram Gram, uniting composer Christophe Sturzenegger and writer Élisa Shua Dusapin. Faithful to his fondness of music and literature, Mompart introduces his long-standing musical companion to Dusapin, a fascinating young swiss writer and winner of the Robert Walser Prize and Prix Suisse de Littérature.
The work seizes a fragment from the life of two teenagers, Lotte and Célestin, who are neighbours for a couple of weeks. Between love and friendship, loneliness and the desire for company, the loss of loved ones and childhood illusions, Le Colibri weaves a story of fractures and links to give meaning to the untold as it spreads its wings.