Les mille endormis

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A thousand administrative detainees are on a hunger strike. The Prime Minister of Israel decides to send them <g class="gr_ gr_26 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling multiReplace" id="26" data-gr-id="26">in to</g> <g class="gr_ gr_21 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace" id="21" data-gr-id="21">a deep sleep</g> to divert the world’s attention. But <g class="gr_ gr_23 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace" id="23" data-gr-id="23">the thousand</g> 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, <g class="gr_ gr_22 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar only-del replaceWithoutSep" id="22" data-gr-id="22">a multicultural</g> society that its leaders imagine only like <g class="gr_ gr_20 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar multiReplace" id="20" data-gr-id="20">a irreconcilable</g> mosaic. Their opera, premiering at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence before an international tour, <g class="gr_ gr_27 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Style multiReplace" id="27" data-gr-id="27">is  imbued</g> with a certitude: there is no country but <g class="gr_ gr_24 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear Grammar only-del replaceWithoutSep" id="24" data-gr-id="24">the space</g> between two souls. LES MILLE ENDORMIS Premiere 2019 Commissioned by the <g class="gr_ gr_28 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="28" data-gr-id="28">festival</g> d'Aix-en-Provence and the théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg  Adam Maor music  <g class="gr_ gr_29 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_disable_anim_appear ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace" id="29" data-gr-id="29">Yonatan</g> 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

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

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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.

Les Mille Endormis d’Adam Maor, création mondiale – livret et mise en scène Yonatan Levy Festival d’Aix-en-Provence 2019 © Patrick Berger
Adam Maor © DR