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Including LE PHARE
Jobidon/Reva

February 6 and 8, 2025 → 7:30 p.m.
February 8 and 9, 2025 → 2 p.m.

 

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Hall
Théâtre Maisonneuve
Seating chart
Venue
Place des Arts
Language: 
French (Subtitles : French and English)

Summary

Bolstered by huge community success at the Théâtre Paradoxe in February 2023, Ravel’s L’Enfant et les Sortilèges, an opera for the whole family, now takes the stage at Théâtre Maisonneuve. Sylvain Scott stage-directs resident artists of the Atelier lyrique who perform with the Orchestre de l’Agora conducted by none other than Nicolas Ellis. This performance will be preceded by the premiere of Le Phare [The Lighthouse] by Laurence Jobidon and Maria Reva. It relates the story of a lonely lighthouse which, after turning off its beam to attract boats to its rocky base, is faced with unforeseen consequences.

Being a kid is not always easy. When his mother punishes him for his many acts of mischief and not doing his homework, the Child throws a tantrum and destroys everything he comes across. Then, before his astonished eyes, his room transforms into a fantastical world in which objects come to life! 

Composer

Maurice Ravel  >

Maurice Ravel(7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer.

Stage Director

Sylvain Scott  >

Since graduating from the professional theatre department at Collège Lionel-Groulx in 1988, Sylvain Scott has made a name for himself as an actor, singer, stage director, and composer. He is also the co-founder and artistic co-director of Théâtre Le Clou, a company that creates shows for youth and adult audiences in Quebec and in Europe. For the company, he has directed works including Faire crier les murs, Le chant du Koï, and Océantume. His productions of Je suis William and Le Scriptarium 2019 won critics’ awards for Best Young Audience Show from the Quebec Theatre Critics Association.

On stage, he was seen in La Métamorphose (Théâtre Denise-Pelletier), staged by Claude Poissant in the fall of 2021; in L’Homme de la Mancha (Théâtre du Rideau Vert) in 2019, under the direction of René-Richard Cyr; in a revival of La fête sauvage (Théâtre de Quat’Sous); as well as in 2012 – Revue et corrigée and Un violon sur le toit (Théâtre du Rideau Vert); Les Parapluies de Cherbourg and Frères de sang (Productions Libretto); La bonne âme du Sé-Tchouan, Antoine et Cléopâtre, Jeanne Dark, L’Opéra de Quat’sous, and Le Misanthrope (Théâtre du Nouveau Monde); Footloose, La mélodie du bonheur, and Hairspray (Juste pour rire); and, on the English-language stage, in Prom Queen – The Musical (Segal Centre). In the summer of 2022, he was in the cast of the musical Rock of Ages. Last May, for the musical theatre graduates of Collège Lionel-Groulx, he directed Cordélia, a musical for which he wrote the script and book. He is currently working on the stage direction of Newton, a new musical that will be staged at Théâtre La Marjolaine in Eastman in the summer of 2023.

 

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