Pop the Opera

FRIDAY 14TH JUNE / 21h30

Roman Theatre

Postponed to the next day in case of bad weather

Duration : 1h15

With the participation of students from collèges Jean Brunet, Champfleury, St Jean-Baptiste de la Salle and Joseph Vernet in Avignon, Fernand Léger in Berre L'Étang, Henri Boudon in Bollène, St Charles in Cavaillon, Alpilles-Durance and Saint-Joseph in Châteaurenard, Caroline Aigle in Lançon-de-Provence, Notre-Dame du Bon Accueil in Monteux, Anne Frank de Morières-les-Avignon, Arausio d'Orange, Marcel Pagnol de Pertuis, Diderot et Voltaire de Sorgues, Joseph d'Arbaud de Vaison-la-Romaine, Paul Langevin de Carros, Sadi Carnot de Grasse, Alphonse Daudet et Henri Matisse de Nice et César de Roquefort-les-Pins et du lycée Théodore Aubanel d'Avignon.

Based on an original idea by Jean-Louis Grinda

CONCEPTION AND ARTISTIC DIRECTION 

JEAN-MARIE LEAU

MUSICAL DIRECTOR AND CO-ARRANGER

VICTOR JACOB

GUITARS JEAN-MARIE LEAU

PIANIO LUCIE FAVIER

PERCUSSION DIDIER BENETTI AND MARC CHANTEREAU

SOUND DESIGN CLEMENT LEAU

Since 2017, the Chorégies d'Orange have been getting thousands of secondary school pupils singing along with Pop the Opera! On stage at the Théâtre Antique d'Orange, during the Musiques en Fête programme, live from the Chorégies d'Orange, in the Place du Palais des Papes in Avignon or at the Auditorium Jean Moulin in Le Thor: singing can be shared in any way you like! In 2024, nearly 1,200 students from the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region will be singing along to Pop the Opera in three performances, in Le Thor and Orange. Under the starry sky of the Théâtre Antique, in a festive atmosphere, the young artists will perform the greatest opera choruses combined with the greatest pop and film hits, in a musical setting where electro sounds will be superimposed on traditional instruments.

As part of the Chorégies d'Orange educational project, in partnership with the Académie d'Aix-Marseille.