Albertine at 70 years old remembers. At the age of 30, she suspected that the immensity of the sky would not be able to contain her rage. The archetypal Quebec Catholic mother from a working-class environment before the Quiet Revolution, she gives the audience a front-row seat to her life by revisiting key moments in her life, like so many dramatic strings from a bygone era. This first opera in joual lends a lyrical voice to the famous play Albertine en cinq temps by Michel Tremblay. Six female singers and five female musicians will bring to life this spellbinding music by composer Catherine Major on a libretto by Collectif de la Lune Rouge, directed by Nathalie Deschamps. 

ALBERTINE EN CINQ TEMPS - THE OPERA
Based on the play Albertine en cinq temps by Michel Tremblay

Albertine at 70: Chantal Lambert
Albertine at 60: Monique Pagé
Albertine at 50: Chantal Dionne
Albertine at 40: Florence Bourget
Albertine at 30: Catherine St-Arnaud
Madeleine: Marianne Lambert

Piano: Rebecca Klassen-Wiebe / Julien LeBlanc
Violin: Mélanie Vaugeois
English horn: Élise Poulin
Cello: Annie Gadbois
Double bass: Anaïs Vigeant

Music: Catherine Major 
Booklet: Collectif de la Lune Rouge
Director: Nathalie Deschamps

Touring agency : Tryskell communication
An original idea from Productions du 10 avril

This performance will have surtitles in English and French.

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