L’Histoire du soldat

Presented by Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (LR-228514). L’Histoire du soldat Igor Stravinsky Text by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz A little Stravinskian gem where a deserter soldier makes a pact with the Devil and ends up losing his soul. Lambert Wilson | The soldier / The devil / The narrator Lemanic Modern Ensemble Duration: 1h10 without intermission From 8 years old In brief: Stravinsky in 1917 left France to seek refuge in Switzerland. It was there that he composed L’Histoire du soldat to a text by the poet Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. This chamber opera-ballet whose atmosphere borrows from traveling circuses and jazz stands in contrast to the grand, lavish ballets of the Diaghilev era. Exhausted by years of war, the era was austere and one had to make do with little: three actors take to the stage of a traveling show – here all three portrayed by actor Lambert Wilson - and a handful of musicians join them to play in turn a military march, a Spanish paso-doble, a Viennese waltz, an Argentine tango, and an American ragtime… Production Théâtre des Champs-Élysées