Festival Classica: Albertine en cinq temps - L’opéra

This concert is offered by the Festival Classica
Tickets available online
Information: 450 912-0868

Created in 1984, Michel Tremblay's play Albertine, en cinq temps (Albertine in Five Times) features a 70-year-old woman in a CHSLD room, replaying memories from different stages of her life. At the age of 30, Albertine already suspects that the immensity of the sky will never be able to contain her rage for life...

Over the years, Albertine has come to embody the archetypal Quebec Catholic working-class mother of the pre-Revolution tranquille era. Half a century after the Grande Noirceur, women have acquired rights. Mothers and families have changed, religion has transformed and culture has evolved. Yet Albertine's anger persists. Are her children's choices of lot and life so different from her own?

This unique work, about an entire woman in search of freedom confronting her own profound expression and her relationship with a hostile, stifling society, was an obvious choice for the women's collective led by director and producer Nathalie Deschamps. Six female singers and five male and female musicians bring this first opera in joual to life, with haunting music by Catherine Major and a libretto by Collectif de la Lune Rouge.

For we are all Albertine...