Fauna and Flora

Staged Song Recital

Saturday, March 9, 2002 20:00     Macao Cultural Centre Small Auditorium     80

Fauna and Flora is a cross-media recital bringing together music, theatre, video and a field not normally associated with the performing arts - ecology - in a programme based on works by French composers including Chabrier, Ravel, Satie, Poulenc and Milhaud. The creative challenge of Fauna and Flora is to explore and develop the potential offered by such vocal works in describing plants and animals from a musical, poetic, ecological and humorous point of view.

The recital takes the form of a dialogue between a “zoologist” (the actor-singer) and his assistant (the pianist). On stage, besides a piano, there is a screen, a marker board and a lectern…the singer uses all the props of a lecturer and illustrates his point (by singing…) with projections of paintings, photographs, graphs and drawings.

Programme

Erik Satie - Les Fleurs (1883)

Darius Milhaud - Catalogue de Fleurs (1920)

Germaine Tailleferre - Fleurs de France (1930)

Jacques Ibert - Le petit ane blanc (1940)

Emmanuel Chabrier - Melodies de 1890

Maurice Ravel - Histoires Naturelles (1906)

Francis Poulenc - Le Bestiaire (1919)

Henri Sauguet - Les Animaux et Leurs Hommes (1921-25)

Tenor: Jose Manuel de Sousa

Pianist: Eurico Rosado

Staging and lighting design: Michel Gies

Staging assistant: Caroline Weill

Co-ordinator and stage assistant: Ana Paula Conceicao

Original idea: Jose Manuel de Sousa and Ana Paula Conceicao

A VOLTE-FACE Production, Portugal