Video a la carta: La Grande Affabulation

This is a 21st-century urban legend. It is said that one night, some children left home without telling their parents, on a quest known only to themselves. They took food, costumes, trestles and songs with them. Along the way, they told each other the story of which they are the heroes through music. This musical ‘great fabrication’ weaves together the tale of this journey of discovery.

For the young artists of Opéra-Comique in Paris, aged 12 to 23, Geoffroy Jourdain and Benjamin Lazar have composed a colourful show, where the spirit of the ‘musical fable’ of the early days of opera blends with that of processions and popular festivals. These young performers could not have better guides in Baroque repertoire, which inspires so many intimate connections between poetry and music, dance and song. On this journey, they travel through the ages and also glean other music, modern and contemporary, to accompany their mysterious quest.

Recorded on 16.05.2025