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2020 I 2021 SEASON
MAGIC MOZART
STAGE CREATION
DIFFUSION
JULY 2020
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MAGIC MOZART
STAGE CREATION
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Duration : 1h15 without interval
Excerpts from chosen works:
Le Nozze di Figaro Numbers :
Die Zauberflöte 4 soloists, 42 musicians, 4 dancers, 1 wizard
Cosi fan Tutte
Don Giovanni Diffusion:
Der Stein der Weisen
july 2020
La Finta semplice
Bastien und Bastienne
Die Entführung aus dem Serail
Olga Pudova, soprano
Lea Desandre, mezzo-soprano
Ben Bliss, tenor This programme will be recorded for a Warner Classics-
Armando Noguerra, baritone Erato disc.
Cie 14:20
Insula orchestra
Laurence Equilbey, conductor
ARTISTIC PROJECT
Mozart’s music is magic. Insula orchestra takes the statement literally, offering a selection of works and
musical extracts in which the wonderment of magical experience is a central theme. Known by the
music lovers as well as by the general public, these poetic or comical melodies, duos and ensembles
are performed in a succession of short, diverting and enchanting acts.
The Magic Flute, Mozart’s last opera, composed in 1791, is of course the cornerstone, with its magic
bells, bewitched animals and Queen of the Night. But we will also find there some characters from the
Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, La Finta semplice, Bastien und Bastienne, or from the more unusual
Der Stein der Weisen (The Philosopher’s Stone).
This Magic Mozart will present three different climates: the kindness of white magic ; the tumult of
love and passion, found in red magic - with such Arias as Don Giovanni’s Canzonetta or «Porgi amor» ;
and finally, the torments of black magic, motivated by revenge and perfecly symbolized by the famous
Queen of the Night Aria « Der Hölle Rache ».
For the stage version, Insula orchestra invited the company 14:20, pioneer of the New Magic arts
movement, that, over the last 15 years, has been challenging our sensory equilibrium and sense of
reality as a focus for its stage work, postulating magic as a rich and independent language, both
popular and of its time. 14:20 has come up with a dizzying show replete with magic tricks for a Mozart
programme that enchants as much as it is enchanted.
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PROJECT PRESENTATION
Laurence Equilbey has dreamed up an original musical journey through Mozart’s greatest operatic
arias. The company has imagined a bespoke theatrical setting focusing on the creative act and in which
Mozart’s genius takes centre stage.
Great arias from masterpieces like The Magic Flute, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Il
Seraglio are united around the same creative energy, overflowing with vitality. Love and fury, two of
Mozart’s key themes, produce astonishing scenes in which characters fly off or disappear into the
magic of mirrors.
Fairytale shadows draw the audience into a universal imaginary space in which childhood is invited to
join in the fun and lyricism of ballet.
In an immersive scenography, graphic and calligraphic arts are projected on a monumental scale
engaging in a dialogue with dance and the singers, underscoring the music’s accents and enchanting
the whole stage with flamboyant colours.
For this new project, Cie 14:20 has invited guest artists with strongly individual personalities: 4 dancers,
a magician, a theatre director, 8 technicians, shadow designers and painters who team up with the four
outstanding singers. Inspired by music that is at once deep and joyous, the artists conjure up magical
scenes imbued with illusion and poetry, in a show that harnesses multiple forms of artistic expression.
IN THE PRESS
« Insula orchestra, there are strings to infallible attacks, with agile and precise dexterity... »
Patrick de Maria, La Marseillaise, 2 December 2017
«Laurence Equilbey, an intellectually powerful conductor with probing insight into the psychological
nature of music, clearly knows how to rehearse and mold a performance. (...) This is what historically
informed performance pratice is really about : learning where the expression, and contrasts, lives in the
music. (...) Equilbey’s Insula orchestra plays beautifully, with a rich sound, and lacking the mannerism and
stiffness that can sometimes weigh down period instrument ensembles»
Brian Taylor, ZealNyc, 23 July 2018
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BIOGRAPHIES
LAURENCE EQUILBEY
CONDUCTOR
Conductor and musical director of Insula orchestra and accentus,
Laurence Equilbey is acknowledged for her demanding, yet open-
minded approach to her art. Her exploration of the symphonic
repertory has seen her conducting the orchestras of BBC of Wales,
Hessischer Rundfunk, Lyon, Bucarest, Liège, Leipzig, Brussels
Philharmonic, Café Zimmermann, Akademie für alte Musik Berlin,
Concerto Köln, Camerata Salzburg, Mozarteumorchester Salzburg…
In 2012, with support from the Département des Hauts-de-
Seine, she founded Insula orchestra, an ensemble devoted to the
classical and pre-Romantic repertory, using period instruments.
With accentus, Laurence Equilbey continues to interpret the great
vocal music repertoire. Laurence Equilbey supports contemporary
creation and she’s also Artistic Director and Director of Education at
the Department for Young Singers at the Paris Conservatory.
The extensive recorded work of accentus has received wide critical acclaim. In 2014, she recorded with
Insula orchestra Mozart’s Requiem on the naïve label; then Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice with Franco Fagioli,
released in September 2015 on the Deutsche Grammophon label (Archiv Produktion). With Warner
Classics –Erato, Laurence Equilbey has released Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Schubert’s orchestrated
lieder (2017).
Laurence Equilbey has studied music in Paris, Vienna and London, and conducting, notably with Eric
Ericson, Denise Ham, Colin Metters and Jorma Panula.
CIE 14:20 – CLÉMENT DEBAILLEUL ET RAPHAËL NAVARRO
STAGE DESIGN
Clément Debailleul and Raphaël Navarro founded Compagnie 14:20
in 2000, and with Valentine Losseau, stage director, playwright and
anthropologist, founded the New Magic art movement that they have
championed ever since. Their artistic vision addresses core issues of
sensorial balance and reappropriated reality.
Cie 14:20 has signed a number of high-profile Paris productions: Nous,
rêveurs définitifs (2016) at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, Wade in the Water
(2016) with the Théâtre national de
Chaillot at CENTQUATRE-Paris, and
Faust (2018) at the Comédie française-
Vieux-Colombier.
Clément Debailleul and Raphaël Navarro are involved in a number of
parallel projects and collaborations.
Clément Debailleul develops projects with shadows designer Philippe
Beau, stage director Galin Stoev and Philippe Awat. He also creates
installations with his brother Louis Debailleul.
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Raphaël Navarro draws on wide-ranging historical, ethnological and anthropological research conducted
with Valentine Losseau on different forms of magic practised all over the world. He co-authors shows with
Yann Frisch and Etienne Saglio, and collaborates as stage director and advisor on magic with the Cirque
du Soleil.
In 2018, he and Valentine Losseau won the SACD award for author of the year for the Circus Arts, for their
production of Goethe’s Faust at the Comédie Française.
Clément Debailleul and Raphaël Navarro are associate authors at the Théâtre du Rond-Point (2017-2021).
Cie 14:20 is associate specialising in teaching methods at ENSATT (Lyon) and CNAC (Châlons en
Champagne). Cie 14:20 has signed conventions with the DRAC, the City of Rouen and the Normandy
regional authority.
VALENTINE LOSSEAU
DR AMATIST
Valentine Losseau is a magician, playwright, anthropologist and co-founder of the new magic artistic
movement with Clément Debailleul and Raphaël Navarro. She has taught magic and anthropology
at France’s National Circus Arts Centre since 2005. As a playwright she has worked on shows by the
companies 14:20 (Wade In The Water: 2016), Monstre(s)/Etienne Saglio (Les Limbes: 2014), L’Absente/
Yann Frisch (Le Syndrome de Cassandre: 2015), Blizzard Concept (LazareMerveilleux: 2018)... With Prune
Nourry she also co-signed the Anima installation at New York’s Invisible Dog Art Center in 2016.
An anthropologist, specialising in India and Mayan cultures, of which she speaks three languages, she
intersects uses the theoretical perspectives of her research work to inform her passion for magic and
writing for the stage. An associate of the Centre for Mexican and Central American Studies (CNRS,
Mexico) since 2009, she is a researcher at the Collège de France Laboratory for Social Anthropology
under the direction of Philippe Descola.
INSULA ORCHESTRA
Insula orchestra’s artistic project is built around a repertoire ranging mainly from the Classical to the
Romantic eras. Mozart, Schubert or Weber form naturally the core of this repertoire with symphonic
programmes as well as programmes with choir and soloists. The orchestra performs on period
instruments.
Founded in 2012 by Laurence Equilbey with local government support from the Département des
Hauts-de-Seine, Insula orchestra is in residence in a new artistic venue, La Seine Musicale, designed
by architects Shigeru Ban and Jean de Gastines on Ile Seguin, an island in the River Seine just a few
miles downstream from Paris. The orchestra is in charge of selecting part of the programme for the
1,100-seater auditorium. It also performs at other major French and international venues and leading
festivals. Since its foundation, the orchestra has been invited to play at Philharmonie de Paris, Vienna’s
Theater an der Wien, Salzburg Mozart Week, Basel
Stadtcasino, Elbphilharmonie, Ludwigsburg Festival and
London Barbican Centre.
Insula orchestra has also developed a comprehensive,
innovative programme of cultural and educational
initiatives across its home base in the Hauts-de-Seine
department, notably to foster awareness among potential
audiences who have never had the opportunity to
approach classical music, as well as participatory classes
for young people and schools.
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AUDIO / VIDEO RECORDS
Création de la cie 14:20 sur une cavatine de Mozart.
Extrait de Lucio Silla de Mozart, avec Insula orchestra sous la direction de Laurence Equilbey.
DISCOGRAPHY
MOZART MOZART
REQUIEM VESPER AE SOLEMNES DE CONFESSORE
CORONATION MASS
Sandrine Piau,
Sara Mingardo, Sandrine Piau,
Werner Güra, Renata Pokupić,
Christopher Purves Benjamun Bruns,
Laurence Equilbey, Andreas Wolf,
accentus, Laurence Equilbey,
Insula orchestra accentus,
Insula orchestra
naïve
September 2014 Warner Classics – Erato
April 2017
« And for all Equilbey’s avoidance of
theatricality it’s the sense of detail, care and “Laurence Equilbey signs an interpretation
attention she imparts as well as fluency that of the Coronation Mass where animation
makes her interpretation memorable ». tends towards euphoria without risking any
BBC Music Magazine disequilibrium.”
Le Monde
SUPPORTERS
CONTACTS
Samuel Serin, Managing Director David Bodou, External relations manager
s.serin@insulaorchestra.fr d.bodou@insulaorchestra.fr
+33 (0)6 03 21 13 67 +33 (0)6 87 88 26 32
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