Interviews

Festival du Monde Arabe 2024 | The enchantment of Lebanese operetta

Interview by Frédéric Cardin
Genres and styles : opérette

Additional Information

Montreal audiences rarely get the chance to see a Lebanese operetta. But on 16 November 2024 they will at Salle Pierre Mercure in Montreal. As part of the Festival du monde arabe 2024, the Al Arz troupe will be presenting Le vendeur de bagues by the Rahbani brothers, the Gilbert and Sullivan of 20th-century Lebanon. In this interview, Tony Yazbek, choreographer and director of the troupe, talks about the very Lebanese art of mixing genres between classical French operetta and Lebanese folk music, in truculent scenarios full of humour, endearing melodies, flamboyant costumes and overt stereotypes of orientalist exoticism.

DETAILS AND TICKETS FOR LE VENDEUR DE BAGUE, PRESENTED AT THE FESTIVAL DU MONDE ARABE 2024

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