#olivier py

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

promo pics for la monnaie de munt’s new production of henry viii are out and a) they look good and b) they look like every single other production olivier py has ever directed

#also it looks like he’s borrowing the genève les huguenots concept of making a historical film. hmm. #okay i hope it goes better in this production than it did in that one (which to be clear he didn’t direct. his huguenots prod was better.) #opera tag #opera #henry viii #camille saint saëns #saint saëns #camille saint-saëns #saint-saëns #la monnaie de munt #olivier py #anyway this is gonna be streamed on operavision next tuesday (the 16th) y’all should watch i love this opera

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

Nous avons toi et moi une intolérance à la médiocrité.

Olivier Py (Les Parisiens)

#quote #quotation #citation #quotes #livre #book #book lover #bibliophile #book therapy #book addict #book community #book worm #goodreads #olivier py #les parisiens #intolérance #médiocrité #toi et moi

[zonetrente-trois]

Drame historique français par Olivier Py, avec Laurent Lafitte, Stacy Martin, Bertrand de Roffignac, Jeanne Balibar (1h34). En salle le 14 février

#Le Molière imaginaire #Olivier Py #Laurent Lafitte #Stacy Martin #Jeanne Balibar

[alexandredumontmanagement]

Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (sortie en salle le 13 septembre)

Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan (sortie en salle le 13 septembre) :

Arielle Dombasle réalise son cinquième long métrage “Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan” qui sortira au cinéma le 13 septembre 2023. C’est une princesse, une grande séductrice. « Don Juan femme », selon l’expression de Balzac. D’une intelligence diabolique. Cette femme, qui a eu de nombreux amants, presque tous les personnages masculins de la « Comédie humaine », va enfin trouver l’amour.…

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#Alexandra Stewart #Anaële Maman #Andy Gillet #Arielle Dombasle #ARP #Cédric Kahn #François Margolin #Hippolyte Girardot #Jacques Fieschi #Jacques Garcia #Julie Depardieu #Kristina Larsen #Léa Wiazemsky #Les Secrets de la princesse de Cadignan #Ludivine Ambiel #Madison Films #Michel Fau #Michèle Halberstadt #Nicolas Herman #Olivier Py #Paolo Luka Noé #Patrick Mimouni #Rolland Menou #Stanislas Mehrar #Vincent Darré #Vladimir Consigny #Yanis Ezziadi

[buz-muet]

(via Pelléas et Mélisande (DNO 2019) - YouTube)

#debussy #maeterlinck #pelleas et melisande #opera #olivier py

[harxu]

Saw a theatre piece sunday and like. I'm so mad it's not widely distributed bc it would do numbers on tumblr

#it was ma jeunesse exaltée by olivier py btw #its 11hours long!!! but well worth it

[laulo821]

one of my quotes of all time is "j'affecte ma douleur" by olivier py ("i'm in love with my pain" as i understand it). so is it why i hurt everytime i love as well?

#rambling #reciprocity... reciprocity.... #anyways i'm not on top of my game lately #vent #i guess #emo ass quote btw

[misfortuneblade]

XENOBLADE 3 SPOILER!!!!

I've been thinking about it since I first played Xenoblade 3 when it came out. But do you ever think about the way it actually hinted from the beginning that they have been repeating their lives over and over again. The ennemis in this game are called "Moebius" and in their eyes can see the "Moebius circle ♾️". In literature you can encounter it.

I read a theater piece with this process in it once. It was about a theater troupe repeating for a theater piece and having an argument because 'it is always the same person that has the more text', 'the best part and characters' ect. They have a pretty big argument and dispatch away, then happen the end of the piece, the stage director comes with a new piece and call all his actors back, give them the piece and their new role, and then with only that you can figure out that the same thing that happened at the beginning of the piece going to happen again and again. You can repeat this piece over pand over. That's what we call the Moebius circle

Okay now back to Xenoblade 3. Now think about the fact they are called Moebius and that the character's life is an endless loop that repeats itself. Everything makes sense.

(The theater piece is called 'illusions comiques' by Olivier Py.)

#Xenoblade 3 #Xenoblade Chronicles #Xenoblade Chronicles 3 #Moebius #Noah Xenoblade #Mio Xenoblade #xenoblade 3 spoilers #Spoilers

[detournementsmineurs]

“Les Secrets de la Princesse de Cadignan” de et avec Arielle Dombasle - d'après les nouvelles “Les Secrets de la Princesse de Cadignan” et “Le Cabinet des Antiques” d'Honoré de Balzac (1839) - et avec Julie Depardieu, Michel Fau, Théo Cholbi, Cédric Kahn, Stanislas Mehrar, Andy Gillet, Olivier Py et Nicolas Herman, septembre 2023.

#films #style #dentelle #chapeau #plumes #voilette #Dombasle #Balzac #Fau #Depardieu #Cholbi #Kahn #Mehrar #Gillet #Py #Herman

[monotonous-minutia]

similarities between Olivier Py’s Hoffmann to his Huguenots not 20 minutes in to the latter production:

enormous stairs pantomimes featuring shirtless people strange (though not ineffective) backlighting heavy utilization of upper levels to separate characters for unclear reasons Bacchus dancing with one of the principal characters

#im sorry i'm not going to be able to stop talking about the connection between these two productions now #it makes me want to watch more of his stuff to see if it's just a thing or what

[infinitelytheheartexpands]

Henry VIII (La Monnaie De Munt, 2023): Reactions, Part I

enfin!!!

fancy schmancy painting

yup! it’s an olivier py production! (also lionel lhote my beloved)

lights camera action (also dear god pls let this be better than the wieler/morabito film studio prod of les huguenots)

rigoletto reference! (kinda) @leporellian​

she is beauty she is grace

two guys definitely just being bros

spinny spinny spin spin

tfw you fall in love with THE anne boleyn

definitely not foreshadowing also i want that dress

making a myth

sneaky sneaky also wait which red belle époque dress girl is anne

are you really surprised? (also the music here is *chef’s kiss*)

uh oh (also @monotonous-minutia​ i believe we have spotted our first shirtless extra)

and that’s on being in the court of a sociopathic, power-abusive monarch

don’t let him hear you

“oh hey we totally weren’t just writing a diss track about you”

“and now i’m gonna steal your girlfriend lolz”

the pope: why are you dissing me henry :/

“dude what the fuck is wrong with you”

“shut the FUCK UP surrey i’m having my EMO SAD BOY MOMENT” (also genuinely this aria is really beautiful)

DROP THE KNIFE HENRY

bravo m. lhote!!!

girlie looks out for her friends

liar liar black dress pants on fire

everyone’s telling you not to be a douchebag

yeet

cosplay couple (victorian and tudor respectively)

how people SHOULD do the whole “living christian values” thing

well congrats for figuring it out usually it takes people at least a couple acts

and this is how people should NOT do the whole “living christian values” thing (also great descending string motif here)

extra standing above: *drops a copy of the bible down from the second story*

henry: HA! I TOLD YOU! I CONNECTED THE DOTS!

catherine: you didn’t connect shit

saint-saëns you MASTER (also this production aesthetic is contributing very well to the vibe)

“oh fuck i think my wife is smarter than i thought”

yup that’s anne boleyn!

don gomez is a good egg

the star of the lady-in-waiting squad

the beginning of…certainly something

fancy flirting

Area Woman Possibly Has Visions Of Her Own Execution

oh i LOVE this scene (though this tempo is a bit fast for my liking)

hmm (but the choral music is gorg)

oh dear

it’s one of those concertantes that just slaps you in the face and it’s AWESOME

anyway this is significantly longer than i expected so…part two coming soon!

#opera #opera tag #henry viii #opera liveblog #saint-saëns #camille saint-saëns #saint saëns #camille saint saëns #in other news sometimes the tagging system here is shitty for composers #but yeah this is really great so far!!!

[mesillusionssousecstasy]

Qu'est-ce que cela veut dire un homme parfait ? Cela veut dire un homme qui n'a plus de souci que d'exister et qui est si vide, si pur, si transparent, que toute chose - les êtres et les objets, amis aussi les rêves - vienne s'abreuver en lui.

Olivier Py (Les Parisiens)

#quote #quotation #citation #quotes #livre #book #book lover #bibliophile #book therapy #book addict #book community #book worm #goodreads #olivier py #les parisiens #exister #vide #pur #transparent #rêves

[joaquimblog]

LICEU 202272023: MANON (SIERRA-FABIANO-DUHAMEL-NAOURI;MINKOVSKI-PY)

Nadine Sierra i MIchael Fabiano a Manon. Gran Teatre del Liceu. Fotografia de David Ruano gentilesa del departament de premsa del GTL Hauré de confessar, perquè crec que té la seva importància en la valoració de la primera funció de les 11 programades aquesta temporada de la popular òpera de Jules Massenet, Manon, que el seu autor no és el que més estimo dels operistes francesos, ni aquest títol…

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#Albert Casals #Alexandre Duhamel #Anaïs Masllorens #Anna Tobella #Inés Ballesteros #Jules Massenet #Laurent Naouri #Manon #Marc Minkowski #Michael Fabiano #Nadine Sierra #Olivier Py #Orquestra i Cor del Gran Teatre del Liceu #Pau Armengol #Tomeu Bibiloni

[zonetrente-trois]

“Je trouve d’abord qu’il ressemble physiquement à Molière. Sur des tableaux de Nicolas Mignard c’est troublant. Le seul défaut de Laurent –et je le lui avais dit – c’est qu’il est un peu trop sexy pour le rôle ! En revanche, sur ces mêmes portraits, on décèle ce que l’on pourrait appeler une humanité chez Molière. Et Laurent a cela. Même quand le personnage est odieux. Il en fait un être humain qui aime, qui souffre, qui pense avoir échoué…”.

#Laurent Lafitte #Molière imaginaire #Olivier Py #Bernard Tapie #Manon Bellahcene

[opera-simplified]

Opera Simplified #7: Les Huguenots—Notes for Act V and an Appendix!

Notes:

** For some bizarre reason (possibly a combination of length and the fact that this act does not portray the Catholic Church in a good light at all), it was surprisingly common performance practice for a very long time (although not anymore) that this act would be cut entirely and the opera would end with Raoul getting shot outside Valentine’s house at the end of Act IV. If you’re scratching your head too...yeah.

*** Partly because this scene is often seen as not really necessary for the main plot and partly because it primarily consists of an extremely difficult tenor aria, this scene is frequently cut.

**** The version of the aria given in the main text is the version commonly performed; due to a combination of cuts and censorship of anti-monarchical content, the aria here is much shorter than originally written. Below is an English translation of what was to have been an additional verse of the aria and would have been inserted after this line:

RAOUL

When he [Coligny] was alive, they did not dare look upon

this noble face honored by victory without paling—

and in death, they insulted him!

Friends, here is his blood!

Do you still doubt?

And these are Frenchmen!

And these are Christians

who claim their support from Heaven and the royal throne for this!

Roving and full of fury, cursing their torture,

I ran to the Louvre, running through the danger,

to plead with King Charles! What a crime! May he be cursed!…

I saw the King himself shoot down his [Huguenot] subjects,

whom he is supposed to protect, from the top of his balcony!

Everywhere, murder and fire!

Everywhere, furious priests

proclaiming the wrath of Heaven!

And alas, no one, not even

the young girl in prayer

or the baby at its mother’s breast,

escapes their blows!

Will we helplessly watch this blood flow

when it cries out for vengeance?

It is waiting to be avenged! And they will have that vengeance from us!

***** The Louvre Palace was the royal palace of France prior to the building of the Palace of Versailles. It did give its name to the art museum now partially housed within it, but to be clear, Valentine is not telling them to take refuge at an art museum.

****** Props to Olivier Py (director of La Monnaie De Munt’s 2011 production) for apparently being the only director with enough common sense to let Nevers die onstage.

******* The ending of the previous scene is often modified so that this and the previous scene take place in the same setting.

Appendix:

so as you may have guessed, there was a shitton of research and online articles and things used in the making of this very long, very detailed project!

the following are some of the resources used in the making of this Opera Simplified:

-Wikipedia

-Google Translate

-Collins French-English online dictionary

-Wiktionary

-five (5) different libretti:

Google Books previews of Giacomo Meyerbeer: The Complete Libretti

Nico Castel’s word-for-word English translation

this webpage of Eugène Scribe’s original libretto before Deschamps (and others) made changes to it

this French/Spanish libretto

and this French/Italian libretto

-a piano/vocal score and a full orchestral score both available on IMSLP

-this delightful post from my dear @monotonous-minutia

-this post i wrote over two years ago

#opera #opera tag #les huguenots #notes #source appendix #meyerbeer #giacomo meyerbeer #augustin eugène scribe #émile de saint-amand deschamps

[chansonsinternationales]

Olivier Py pour son Molière imaginaire : "C'est emmerdant le théâtre bourgeois !"