{"id":15014,"date":"2025-11-21T15:37:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T14:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cappellamediterranea.com\/production\/les-dinos-et-larche\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T17:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T15:33:13","slug":"les-dinos-et-larche","status":"publish","type":"post-concert","link":"https:\/\/cappellamediterranea.com\/en\/production\/les-dinos-et-larche\/","title":{"rendered":"Les Dinos et l’Arche"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Featuring a colorful cast, a ten-piece ensemble, and Julien Condemine\u2019s inventive staging, this mini-opera\u2014which feels like a journey through space and time\u2014draws on the Baroque heritage to better examine our own era. Visually daring, musically delightful, and brilliantly conducted by Leonardo Garc\u00eda-Alarc\u00f3n, Les Dinos et l\u2019Arche<\/em> is an opera for curious minds of all ages. <\/strong> Blending satire and tenderness, Les Dinos et l\u2019Arche<\/em> brings together humans, animals and extinct creatures in a changing society, a distorting yet revealing mirror of our own. In a whirlwind of emotions, absurd dialogue, bursts of laughter and spectacular metamorphoses, it becomes clear that the dinosaurs are forced to adapt in order to survive in a world doomed to extinction… Does that remind us of anything? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00ab Parce qu\u2019il raconte la n\u00e9cessit\u00e9 d\u2019\u00e9voluer, de s\u2019unir face au changement, Les Dinos et l\u2019Arche nous tend un miroir. On ne se privera pas de cette ode rugissante \u00e0 la Renaissance \u2013 ni du plaisir de voir un T-Rex chanter. \u00bb <\/p>\n

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\u00ab La Cappella Mediterranea, renouvel\u00e9e, jeune, d\u2019une quinzaine de musiciens, en formation Mozart, est dans son \u00e9l\u00e9ment. Tous les codes, formes et proc\u00e9d\u00e9s d\u2019\u00e9criture baroque sont mis \u00e0 profit pour traduire les situations dramatiques et les \u00e9motions de chacun. \u00bb <\/p>\n

Yvan Beuvard – 7 f\u00e9vrier 2026<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\u00ab Et lorsqu’en bis, Leonardo Garc\u00eda-Alarc\u00f3n, enfin \u00e9merg\u00e9 de la fosse, reprend du bord de sc\u00e8ne ce num\u00e9ro o\u00f9 les notes de musique ont trouv\u00e9 la plus sublime fa\u00e7on de s’\u00e9lever \u00e0 la hauteur des mots, les larmes n’ont plus qu’\u00e0 monter tandis que l’on r\u00eave d\u00e9j\u00e0 de r\u00e9entendre cette merveilleuse partition d’aujourd’hui\u2026 \u00bb <\/p>\n

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\u00ab En musique, chants, danses, en gesticulations passionn\u00e9es, face \u00e0 un plateau qui \u00e9blouit et, surprend par une interpr\u00e9tation \u00e9tourdissante, l\u2019\u0153uvre plonge le spectateur entre mythe, science et fable ! Et, conjurant les m\u00e9canismes de l\u2019effondrement et de la survie, soul\u00e8ve des questions \u00e9tonnement actuelles\u2026 \u00bb <\/p>\n

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Sadly, the dinosaurs \u2013 the dream of children of all ages \u2013 have disappeared. Of course, the books tell of a meteorite that devastated the planet. But what if the dinosaurs had missed Noah\u2019s Ark because a sundial had malfunctioned due to the clouds? In this musical fable, as funny as it is profound, Charles Darwin himself, accompanied by his charming iguana collected from the Gal\u00e1pagos archipelago, travels back in time to offer the giant reptiles a second chance. Aboard a fantastical vessel, the dinosaurs then embark on a quest for a magical plant that could save them from the Flood by transforming them into birds… <\/p>\n

Blending satire and tenderness, Les Dinos et l\u2019Arche<\/em> brings together humans, animals and extinct creatures in a changing society, a distorting yet revealing mirror of our own. In a whirlwind of emotions, absurd dialogue, bursts of laughter and spectacular metamorphoses, it becomes clear that the dinosaurs are forced to adapt in order to survive in a world doomed to extinction… Does that remind us of anything? <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Les Dinos et l\u2019Arche<\/em><\/strong>, a Darwinian opera, a dystopian fable<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Music by Thomas Leininger (1981)Libretto by C\u00e9dric Costantino (1974) and Tina Hartmann (1973)World premiere in French at La Cit\u00e9 BleuePerformance running time: 1 hour 20 minutes, with no intermission<\/em>Ages 10 and over<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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to Margareta Nordin and the Municipalit\u00e9 de Savenni\u00e8res (FR).This production was sponsored by the Prince and Princess of Chimay. We would like to thank them for hosting us during our residency at the Ch\u00e2teau de Chimay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Thomas Leininger, composer<\/em>C\u00e9dric Costantino and Tina Hartmann, libretto<\/em>C\u00e9dric Costantino, Myrielle Schnewlin & Thomas Leininger, French adaptation<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Julien Condemine, staging direction<\/em>Nikolett Kuffa, stage direction assistant<\/em>Margaux Blanchard, dramaturgy<\/em>H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Fief, set design<\/em>Sylvain Wavrant, costumes design<\/em>Estelle Boul, costume assistant<\/em>Jeanne Tanguy, Lila Bouet, costume design interns<\/em>In collaboration with Maison Vermeulen, feather craftsman<\/em>Sylvain S\u00e9chet, lighting and video design<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonardo Garc\u00eda-Alarc\u00f3n, musical direction<\/em>Jacopo Raffaele, musical direction assistant<\/em>Ariel Rychter, score assistant<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Actors-singers:Mariana Silva, Darwin\u2019s iguana \/ No\u00e9\u2019s wife<\/em>Sebasti\u00e0 Peris, Darwin \/ No\u00e9<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dinosaurs :Daria Novik, Brachiosaurus<\/em>Val\u00e9rie Pellegrini, Struthiomimus<\/em>Julia Deit-Ferrand, Triceratops<\/em>Diego Galicia Su\u00e1rez, ArchaeopteryxCharles Sudan, Anatosaurus<\/em>Baptiste Jondeau, Parasaurolophus<\/em>Oscar Esmerode, Velociraptor<\/em>Rapha\u00ebl Hardmeyer, Tyrannosaurus<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mammals:Sarah Matousek, Cat<\/em>Lidija Jovanovi\u0107, Kangaroo<\/em>Bastien Masset, Rat<\/em>F\u00e9lix Le Gloahec, Dog<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n

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