Saturday, September 10, 2011, at 8:30 PM at the Théâtre de Verdure – Nice
Fabulous voices, a lavish display of costumes, a sumptuous cast, stories of unrequited love, are what make up the show “Andalousie” by Francis Lopez where rhythm, color, grace, humor, and emotions will be on the agenda.
The Operetta Festival will celebrate its tenth edition with a splendor of the genre, as it requires opera voices. “Andalousie” is the third part of a trilogy, following “La Belle de Cadix” and “Le Chanteur de Mexico.”
Melcha Coder, the artistic director of the show, has planned a very demanding cast that prioritizes the best artists from Nice.
Thus, a dozen students from the Nice conservatory make up the choir Contre-Ut. Talents from other backgrounds have also been invited, such as Serge Manguette, choreographer and director, who just recently choreographed the Ballet of Don Quixote at the Bolshoi in Moscow.
The ballet corps, for its part, consists of 11 dancers, and the flamenco dancer, Marco Aurelio, is likely to set hearts and bodies on fire. In the words of Melcha Coder: “the audience holds its breath when he appears on stage!”
The operetta also includes comedy, and the entertainer, Claude Deschamps, a “Louis de Funès on pointe,” will maintain the tradition. Andalousie promises a wild ambiance in the splendor of sets borrowed from the Diacosmie stock of the Nice Opera and adapted for the show. Book quickly, the tickets are selling fast, very fast…
Prices: €17 for adults, €10 for students and children under 10 years old
Moreover, the Operetta Festival will continue on Saturday, October 1st, at 3 PM at the Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional de Nice, in the Auditorium, with a bouquet from previous years: from Offenbach to the roaring twenties, from Broadway to Viennese, as well as Francis Lopez.
