“Prima la musica e poi le parole”—with this motto, Claudio Monteverdi pioneered emotional expression in music at the dawn of the 17th century. Under his fingers, the voice is set free, polyphony bursts into life, and a revolutionary art form is born: opera, where song becomes theater, where body and music become one.
In this circus-inspired ballet, Geoffroy Jourdain and Les Cris de Paris transform Monteverdi’s masterpieces into a choreographed symphony of sound and vision. Here, the singers do more than simply perform. They embody the music, they defy balance, they make the music dance just as Monteverdi himself would have dreamed. A whirling tribute to this genius who, for the first time, dared to make the stage a place where music takes precedence over everything—even words, even gravity.
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