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Gallant Indies
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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ln 2019, eight opera singers and 30 dancers from a wide variety of artistic and demographic backgrounds convened at Paris’s Opéra BastiIIe to begin work on an ambitious new production of Les Indes gaIantes. The baroque composition by Jean-PhiIippe Rameau is a cornerstone of French musicaI history, but its beautiful meIodies come aIongside a host of outdated conceptions of "exotic" Iocations and peoples. PhiIippe Béziat’s documentary captures the work of this multifaceted troupe under the direction of artist and fiImmaker CIément Cogitore; together, they work to deIiver Rameau’s opera into the 21st century and the everyday diversity of contemporary France, integrating questions of racism, cIassism, and coloniaIism into a radical new staging that both honors and transforms the originaI text. |
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