A busy weekend for those who are particularly fond of the performing arts.
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human voices
With human voicesMonique Miller performs for the first time at Espace libre, alongside Larissa Corriveau, in a short show directed by Félix-Antoine Boutin. The performance is accompanied by a multimedia installation, designed by Larissa Corriveau, which can be seen before or after the play. This proposal thus pays homage to the great actress in an experimental and very current form. A journey between past and present, reality and fiction. Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes Until November 12.
Luc Boulanger, The Press
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Musical films from Brazil
On the last day of the Montreal Brazilian Film Festival, music is in the spotlight. This Thursday, the event presents a documentary on the poet, composer and singer Dorival Caymmi (at 5:30 p.m.), author of very famous sambas, and a work of fiction inspired by the life of Gal Costa (at 7:30 p.m.) . Great figure of tropicalism, an emblematic countercultural movement of Brazil under the dictatorship. She left her mark on the music of the largest country in Latin America with her voice and her audacity. Indiahis album published in 1973, was in fact censored because of its cover considered daring…
Alexandre Vigneault, The Press
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Maurice
The moving solo written and performed by Anne-Marie Olivier is back in the intimate room of the Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui for a new series of performances. This is very probably the last opportunity to see this spectacle of great humanity in Montreal. Anne-Marie Olivier here plays Maurice Dancause, a brilliant economist who must relearn how to live after a stroke. Despite the difficulties (including aphasia against which he must constantly fight), Maurice has chosen to fully embrace his new life… This luminous play, directed by Olivier Arteau, remains one of my great favorites of recent seasons . From October 30 to November 14 at the Jean-Claude-Germain room at the Center du Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui
Stéphanie Morin, The Press
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A voice to be loved
Created a year ago by Sophie Faucher and Marc Hervieux, the show A voice to be lovedwhich tells the life of the great Maria Callas, will return to the Salle Maisonneuve in Montreal on Saturday. The story follows a meeting in 1977 between the diva (Sophie Faucher), who lives as a recluse in her Parisian apartment, with her accompanying pianist Robert Sutherland (Dominic Boulianne) and her friend the tenor Giuseppe di Stefano (Marc Hervieux). Recordings, archive images and obviously a lot of music on stage – Marc Hervieux is there, all the same! – form the thread of this show written with finesse by Anne Bryan and Sophie Faucher, on one of the most romantic lives of the 20th centurye century.
Josée Lapointe, The Press
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