Le Visiteur (The Visitor)
T01936407738
The scene is Vienna, 1938; the Nazis have invaded Austria and are persecuting the Jews. Optimistic that there will be a resolution, Sigmund Freud has not yet left the city, but one evening the Gestapo arrest his daughter Anna for interrogation. Freud is desperate. He receives a strange visitor: a cynical dandy in evening dress, who arrives through the window and embarks on an incredible discussion... Who is he? A madman? A magician? A dream or the product of Freud's own unconscious mind? Or is he really who he claims to be - God himself?
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French Opera Week
A week of Chamber Opera, Recitals and films from a company whose primary artistic remit is to seek out and stage forgotten works of the lyric French repertory and to restore an authentic French style in both singing and orchestral playing. A fully staged production of Xarhakos's Le Visiteur, based on a play by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt will form the central feature alongside film versions of a number of shows performed at the company's home - the Théâtre Imperiale in Compiègne, France - all of which have been directed by Pierre Jourdan, founder of Théâtre Français de la Musique Linbury Studio
