Description

Inspired by Shakespeare's moving story of Romeo and Juliet...<div> ...which Bernstein and Sondheim transposed to the working-class, multiethnic New York of the 1950s, West Side Story is a musical comedy that blends jazz, classical music, and Latin American influences. With feverish intensity, the love story of Maria and Tony, from two rival gangs (the Sharks and the Jets), clashes with gang warfare.</div><div><br></div><div> Mathieu Herzog and the Appassionato Orchestra draw inspiration from this score, brimming with lyricism and punctuated by rhythmic explosions! Its catchy melodies powerfully convey the tensions, hopes, and dramas of the characters. Finger snaps, syncopated and frenetic rhythms reminiscent of mambo and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, operatic lyricism, and jazzy melodies... Bernstein's score is a concentrated dose of music and America, bursting with infectious energy. A masterpiece that Anthony Despras revisits in an electrifying choreography worthy of Broadway. The dancers powerfully embody the conflicts between the clans through gestures that are both raw and precise, blending urban energy with contemporary choreography.</div><div><br></div><div> Driven by a rare vocal intensity, singer Neïma Naouri joins the stage and breathes an additional dimension into this musical fresco, where raw emotion meets a profoundly captivating power of interpretation.</div><div><br></div><div> A modern version of the myth, a true ode to America born from cultural mixing that shatters musical boundaries for our greatest pleasure!</div>