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Soprano (and ukulele player) Agathe Peyrat and accordionist (also singer) Pierre Cussac form a unique duo.
Together, they reinvent the boundaries between classical music, chanson and popular music, with a complicity as virtuoso as it is quirky.
From Bizet to Puccini, from French mélodie to chanson, Je chante la nuit spans eras and styles.
Je chante la nuit is an album that defies labels and invites you to listen differently to tunes you thought you knew.
In this program, they view the classical repertoire "through the prism" of their approach, "that is to say by songsifying it, along a journey woven between night and day" thanks to their bespoke arrangements.
We thus discover a very surprising version of Mozart's Queen of the Night, melodies and opera arias by Debussy, Bizet, Saint-Saëns, Puccini, Delibes, Wagner mirroring songs by Maurice Yvain, Charles Trenet, André Minvielle or Brigitte Fontaine performed by the two artists who blur the lines and bring styles into dialogue with elegance, mischief and tremendous complicity.