A thousand administrative detainees are on a hunger strike. The Prime Minister of Israel decides to send them in toa deep sleep to divert the world’s attention. But the thousand sleepers give the Israeli people insomnia. As a consequence, it is urgent to send an emissary to the dream world… Via a dreamlike parable, the composer Adam Maor and the playwright Yonatan Levy, both Israeli, talk about a country torn in two, a multicultural society that its leaders imagine only like a irreconcilable mosaic. Their opera, premiering at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence before an international tour, is imbued with a certitude: there is no country but the space between two souls.
LES MILLE ENDORMIS Premiere 2019
Commissioned by the festival d'Aix-en-Provence and the théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg
Adam Maor music
Yonatan Levy libretto & stage design mise en scène
United Instruments of Lucilin
Elena Schwarz musical direction
Julien Brun stage design
Anouk Schiltz costumes
Omer Shizaf lighting design
Amir Farjoun dramaturgy
Augustin Muller IRCAM computer music design
Nouvelle production du festival d’Aix-en-Provence. En coproduction avec l’Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg, Helsinki Festival, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbonne), Théâtre royal de la Monnaie / De Munt (Bruxelles), Queen Elisabeth Music Chapel. Avec le soutien de ENOA et le programme Europe Créative de l’Union européenne.
