From November 18 to 24 in Nice. Organized by the CIRM, National Center for Musical Creation. 32nd edition at “5 euros for everyone“.
A vocal and sound promenade by Isabelle Soccoja at MAMAC will open this 32nd edition of the MANCA, Friday, November 18 from 6 p.m.
Popular melodies from Armenia, Italy, Scotland will precede a cappella scores, ranging between spoken and sung, covering all registers of laughter.
Finally! On the poem by Sanguineti, composed of excerpts from Joyce, Marx, Dante, Barthes, and the Bible, the radio play A-Ronne will complete this “garden of speech,“ in the form of musical theater, a genre dear to composer Luciano Berio.
The evening continues at the Théâtre de Nice, the same Friday, November 18 at 7:30 p.m. with the Icarus ensemble around a program focused on the France/Mexico year and the (re)discovery of Mexican composers Arturo Fuentes, Ana Lara, Javier-Torres Maldonado: the same nationality for unique personalities.
Les Pleiades by Iannis Xenakis, with the Strasbourg Percussions and dancers from the L’Abrupt ensemble, will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Strasbourg ensemble, as well as the 10th anniversary of the composer’s death in the main hall of the Théâtre de Nice on Friday, November 18 at 9:30 p.m.
Saturday, November 19 at 8:30 p.m., the Nice Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Pierre-André Valade, will let us hear at the Théâtre de l’Opéra de Nice, around the Mexican composer Ana Lara, 2 symphonic works by Steve Reich and Henri Dutilleux.
The MANCA is pleased to present “Ismène,“ the opera for a single voice performed by Marianne Pousseur, “a kind of internal dialogue, a performance for a body and natural elements.“ Based on the original work by Georges Aperghis on a homonymous poem by Yannis Ritsos. Sunday, November 20 at 5 p.m. at the Théâtre Francis Gag.
Tuesday, November 22 at 8:30 p.m., at the Théâtre de Nice: a new nod to Mexico with “Un posible dia“ by Javier Torres Maldonado. It is an imaginary theatrical form set to music – called “radio drama“ – around the poet José Manuel Recillas and the playwright Ana Canida de Carvalho.
The Student Forum will close this 32nd edition with 3 concerts over 2 days: Wednesday, November 23 and Thursday, November 24… On the program: works by today’s students and their elders in the auditorium of the CNRR of Nice, unveiling for the occasion its orchestra of speakers (also called acousmonium).
Finally, surprise interventions will punctuate the Festival. Taking the form of “noise choreographies“ where today’s music will meet the retro-neopunk trend … all orchestrated by 4 young students from Villa Arson brought together under the name “Taisez-nous.“
