Nohant, terre d'artistes

For nearly ten years, George Sand and Frédéric Chopin shared a love story, creation, and artistic life. From Paris to Nohant, their letters tell the intimacy of an extraordinary couple: journeys, passionate impulses, anxieties, illness, but also the daily life of creation.

Between 1838 and 1847, Chopin found in Nohant an environment particularly favorable to his work. George Sand's residence became a true artistic hub where writers, painters, and musicians crossed paths. Among them, Pauline Viardot, a close friend of George Sand and a major figure in European musical life.

The correspondence becomes theatrical material here:

Daphné Laffite and Jean Charpentier, students of the drama class, give voice to the letters of George Sand and Chopin. Alongside them, piano students from the class of

Yumeto Suenaga bring Chopin and Pauline Viardot to life, extending this epistolary dialogue through music. Chopin and Viardot themselves maintained a close artistic relationship: they notably played four hands, and Chopin admired the melodies of the singer and composer.

An encounter between literature, theatre, and music, to let audiences hear, beyond the love story, the birth of an artistic world, as part of the Poland-France 2027 Season.

Coordination: Elsa Saladin-Benattar