Aria da Capo

Scherzando, agitato, andante ma non troppo, a quartet of young apprentice musicians explore their age and its jolts. Is adolescence a promise or a terrible expectation, a rare acuity or a confusion of feelings, a retreat or a surge, an airlock or a continent? What melancholic or ecstatic states does it bring? If it were a musical allure, what would it be?

One girl and three boys. One plays the violin, another the trombone, a third the bassoon; she sings and plays the piano. Séverine Chavrier has listened to them in every sense of the word, as in this show they play music, sing, have fun but also tell in their own way what it means to them to be teenagers. Their words fly in the face of preconceived ideas about this so-called ungrateful age. They play with masks, ironizing the way their elders look at them. Or, with words borrowed from Thomas Bernhard, they tear into their idols: the elders, the great composers, their parents...

The fruit of joint research into music and improvisation, this creation captures as closely as possible the intensity of desire, between tenderness and wild energy, in the face of a world open to all possibilities.