Le Carnaval baroque

In Le Carnaval baroque, Vincent Dumestre and Cécile Roussat give birth anew to the enchantment and subversive subtext of this festival unlike any other, in a form mixing mime, comedy and Baroque music.

In the streets of 17th-century Italy, the period before Lent was considered a pretext for letting it all out. The crowd, provisionally liberated from all convention, gave free reign to those impulses least befitting a religious celebration. With its festive jubilation, its taste for the grotesque and for masks, Le Carnaval baroque brings together jugglers, acrobats, mimes, singers and musicians to bring to life the unbridled good fun of celebration. From the palace to the streets, from the trestle to the banquet, a telescopic kaleidoscope of genres, from parody to poetry, from ridiculous laughter to sublime grace, in a day conceived as a long reverie with no other rules than pure fantasy.

Musical direction Vincent Dumestre
Visual conception and direction Cécile Roussat

Scenography François Destors
Costumes Maxence Rapetti-Mauss, Chantal Rousseau
Lighting Christophe Naillet
Make-up and hairstyling Mathilde Benmoussa
Artistic collaboration Julien Lubek
Masks Julie Coffinières 

Le Poème Harmonique

Alto Anaïs Bertrand 
Tenors Paco Garcia, Martial Pauliat 
Baritone Igor Bouin

Actors, mimes Stefano Amori, Julien Lubek
Chinese pole Antoine Hélou, Rocco Le Flem
Floor acrobat Max Spuhler 
Floor acrobat, juggler Victor Zachor
Juggler, Cyr wheel Quentin Bancel
Child actor Désiré Lubek

Violin Louise Ayrton
Flute, bassoon Isaure Lavergne 
Cornett Adrien Mabire 
Viola de gamba, chitarrino Lucas Peres
Percussions Michèle Claude 
Double bass Simon Guidicelli 
Theorbo, guitar, colascione Vincent Dumestre
 

^{Photo © Laurent Guizard}