The Nightingale/Fox
The Nightingale/Fox is the result of a wish made by Robert Lepage. These two brief operas will be produced a few years down the road. The Nightingale is an adaptation of a tale by Lepage’s longtime intimate, Hans Christian Anderson, while Fox is a grotesque farce for singers and mime artists. For this production Ex Machina will use puppets, working with American production designer Michael Curry and Quebec director Martin Genest. It will focus on the Asian roots of these two tales: Vietnamese in the case of Anderson’s, and Russian or Chinese for Fox.
The three creators met in Vietnam and went off to explore the old tradition of water puppetry.
Production scheduled for 2009.
The Nightingale/The Fox (1914 / 1922)
- Music by Igor Stravinsky
librettos after Hans Christian Anderson (Nightingale) and Stravinsky (Fox) - Design and Production
Ex Machina - Director
Robert Lepage - Set Designer
Carl Fillion - Assistant Director
Sybille Wilson - Artistic and Musical Consultant
Rebecca Blankenship - Puppetry Designer
Michael Curry - Puppetry Choregrapher
Martin Genest - Lighting Designer
Étienne Boucher - Costume Designer
Mara Gottler - Technical Director
Michel Gosselin - Assistant Technical Director
Éric Gautron - Production Assistant
Viviane Paradis - Production Manager
Bernard Gilbert