Ciné-concert Méliès

Ages 5 and up

Le Voyage à travers l’impossible and Le Royaume des fées, two cinematographic gems, are given the place of honour in this show based on a creation by Étienne Meyer.

A joyous musical dive into the magic and genius of Méliès! It was at the start of the 20th century that Georges Méliès produced his short films in his studio located in the Paris region: double-exposures, crossfades, stop-action, history’s first special effects, all the new tricks of cinema can be found here, to tell these fantastic stories. For this marvellously magical voyage into the core of the sun and the depths of the ocean, Étienne Meyer and the musicians of Les Traversées Baroques have designed a show that goes far beyond the traditional cinema-concert. He invites the filmmaker’s great-grandson, for a moving encounter with the descendants of the explorers and adventurers invented by his ancestor. A highly original show to discover the incredible universe of the fabulous enchanter Méliès !

Original composition Étienne Meyer
based on two short films by Georges Méliès:
Le Royaume des fées, (1903) and Le Voyage à travers l’impossible (1904)

Staging Vincent Bouchot
Video Edouard Barra
Costumes Julie Lardrot

Tenor and hawker Étienne Meyer
Cornett Judith Pacquier
Violin Jasmine Eudeline
Bass clarinet Nicolas Nageotte
Harpsichord Nicolas Chesneau