If life takes over: Jeanne Candel returns to Spoleto with her new creation Baúbo

It follows the trail of myth - the theme of the sixty-seventh edition of Festival dei Due Mondi - Baùbo / on the art of not being dead, the new Musical Theater show signed from Jeanne Candel staged to San Simone on Saturday, June 29 at at 5 p.m. and Sunday, June 30 at at 6:30 p.m. After the success of Demi-Véronique and Le Crocodile trompeur / Didon et Énée, Candel returns to Festival dei Due Mondi with her company la vie brève with a new creation inspired by the myth of Baùbo, one of the most mysterious characters in Greek mythology. Only she, an elderly priestess, was able to bring a smile back to the lips of Demeter, goddess of the seasons who in despair was condemning the earth to an endless winter because of the pain of losing her kidnapped daughter Persephone, from Hades. Baubus' gesture is simple and revolutionary: he lifts his robes and shows his sex to Demeter, who bursts into liberating laughter. A comic and funny gesture that becomes a symbol of fertility, desire, and creation. "It is the equivalent of a creative gesture," she explains, "I believe that artistic creation has the power to awaken, to stimulate some forces that are in us, to which we do not pay attention, however. The show conceived from Candel is an inner investigation, an exploration of body and soul as they are swept by the storms of passion, to observe their wildly contrasting expressions. The story of Baùbo mirrors the story of a woman suffering from a disappointment in love. Candel recounts, "We have all experienced the end of love, and we all react differently. However, there is always a moment when life takes over, when our state changes."

And yet in Jeanne Candel's musical theater, made up of images and movement, the text is only one of the materials on which to build. On stage, the actors are also musicians, in a heterogeneous ensemble consisting of from violin, saxophone, classical and electric guitar, double bass and percussion, with the voice of mezzo-soprano Pauline Leroy and the musical direction of Pierre-Antoine Badaroux. The story of Baùbo is interwoven with music by Dietrich Buxtehude and Heinrich Schütz.

An anatomy of passion in which once again music and theater are intertwined. Candel recounts further, "I was a teenager when I first saw a work by Pina Bausch on stage. It was a shock, I was going through a difficult time and her art had the power to save me, it changed my life. Seeing that performance pushed me toward the great desire to create."

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