La Fille de Madame Angot: Théâtre des Champs‐Elysées

About the Event

This Madame Angot by Lecocq was a triumph at the time of its creation, then oblivion. A brilliant team of French singers is honouring her again with undisguised pleasure.

In 1872, Charles Lecocq, a worthy heir of Offenbach and Bizet's unfortunate rival, placed the action of his Daughter de Madame Angot under the Directoire, just after the Terror, a time when a frenzy was gripping French society. At that time, people were thirsty to sing and dance to forget. The musician was inspired by the legendary character of Madame Angot, a sort of merchant from Les Halles who had made his fortune, to evoke the Paris of the time with brilliance and truculence. Full of freshness and finesse, this lively page is rightly considered the musician's masterpiece. In fact, at the time of its creation, it had no less than 411 consecutive performances. People laugh, cry, dance… But as Saint‐Saëns used to say, 'It's much more serious than you think'. A brilliant team of French singers, including Anne‐Catherine Gillet, Véronique Gens, Mathias Vidal, Yann Beuron, Matthieu Lécroart and Ingrid Perruche, invites us to rediscover this little gem of the repertoire that has been absent from Parisian stages since 1984.

Anne‐Catherine Gillet | Clairette Angot
Véronique Gens | Mademoiselle Lange
Mathias Vidal | Pomponnet
Yann Beuron | Ange Pitou
Matthieu Lécroart | Larivaudière
Ingrid Parakeet | Amaranth / Babette / Javotte
Antoine Philippot | Louchard
Flannan Obe | Trenitz
David Witczak | Cadet / Unbelievable / An Officer

Sébastien Rouland | direction
Paris Chamber Orchestra
Flemish Radio Choir

Opera sung in French, surtitled in French and English