at the Opéra-Comédie, Rima Abdul Malak and Alexandre Tharaud sing poetry

The pianist Alexandre Tharaud and the former Minister of Culture, Rima Abdul Malakhave known each other for ten years, “but it’s the first time that they share a stage together”, says the Montpellier Opera which invited the artist and the former cultural attaché in New York to present their show, ” Standing in the night », on the stage of the Opéra Comédie this Sunday January 12.

The love of hyphenated words

For reading poems, Rima Abdul Malak, and for Music, the virtuoso pianist Alexandre Tharaud. The Montpellier Opera is delighted with this collaboration proposed by the pianist, in residence in Montpellier: “They are together on a stage which is intended to be warm like a fireplace corner, inhabited by their love of words and music, open to the world. This evening will be a trip where the language of poets from France, Africa, the Middle East, and even Canada, meets that of the greatest composers yesterday and today.”

An invitation to listen, seek beauty in the midst of darkness, find the courage to fight and awaken hope.

On the Program

Music : Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel, Claude Debussy, Thierry Pécou, Alexandre Tharaud

Poems of resistance : Robert Desnos, Pierre Seghers, Paul Eluard, Louis Aragon

Poems of anger : Fatoumata Keita, Wajdi Mouawad, Victoria Amelina, Meena Keshwar Kamal, Forough Farrokhzâd, Joséphine Bacon

Poems of freedom and emancipation : Maram Al Masri, Roja Chamankar, Marion Collé, Ketty Nivyabandi

Addresses to youth : Tania Tchénio, Andrée Chedid, Maram Al Masri, Cécile Coulon, Theo Judit Mayer

Poems of hope and fraternity : Jean-Louis Lorrie, Marina Damjanovic, Andrée Chedid, Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe, Dimitri Porcu, Cécile Coulon

Practical information:
“Up in the Night”
Rima Abdul Malak (reading) and Alexandre Tharaud (piano)
Sunday January 12 at 5 p.m.
Opera Comedy, Montpellier

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