The Soldier’s Tale
Igor Stravinsky
Text by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
A little gem by Stravinsky in which a deserter makes a pact with the Devil and ultimately loses his soul.
Dates
Lambert Wilson | The Soldier / The Devil / The Narrator
Lemanic Modern Ensemble
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Approx. running time : 1h10 without intermission
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From age 8
About
Stravinsky left France in 1917 and took refuge in Switzerland. There he composed The Soldier’s Tale based on a libretto by the poet Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. This ballet-chamber opera with a travelling circus and jazz ambiance is the polar opposite of the large and sumptuous ballets of the Diaghilev era. These were lean times; exhaustion with the war years had set in and resources were in short supply. Three actors tread the boards of a touring show – all three performed here by Lambert Wilson – and a handful of musicians join in to strike up a military march, a Spanish paso doble, a Viennese waltz, an Argentine tango and an American ragtime tune...
Production Théâtre des Champs-Élysées