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Family Sunday: The Soldier's Tale by Igor Stravinsky, Text by Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz<div> Lambert Wilson | The Soldier / The Devil / The Narrator</div><div> Lemanic Modern Ensemble</div><div><br></div><div> In 1917, Stravinsky left France to seek refuge in Switzerland. It was there that he composed The Soldier's Tale to a text by the poet Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz. This chamber ballet-opera, whose atmosphere draws on the traveling circus and jazz, is the antithesis of the grand and lavish ballets of the Diaghilev era. Exhausted by the war years, the times were tight-fisted, and resources were limited: three actors take to the stage of a traveling show—here all three portrayed by the actor Lambert Wilson—and a handful of musicians join them to perform, in turn, a military march, a Spanish paso doble, a Viennese waltz, an Argentine tango, and an American ragtime...</div><div><br></div><div> Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Production</div>