Adapted from the score of Kurt Weill and text by Bertolt Brecht, this condensed staging presents Véronique Valdès (mezzo-soprano), Françoise Courvoisier (narrator) and Nicolas Le Roy (piano) in a tense, music-theatre portrait of exile and commerce. Two sisters named Anna traverse an America at once real and imagined, probing the divide between performance and personhood. The text is concise and often provocative; the score remains intoxicatingly beautiful, its haunting melodies framed here by a focused chamber staging. Presented by Les Amis musiquethéâtre.
In French.
