Mystérieuse Mélisande, by Stéphane Orlando

Mystérieuse Mélisande

by Stéphane Orlando

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From 9 to 12 June 2020, Stéphane Orlando directed four young singers from the Centre d'Art Vocal et de Musique Ancienne de Namur (Cav&ma) at the Théâtre Royal de Namur, to produce a film opera for which he also composed the music, under the watchful and creative camera of Thomas P. Decaro.
Together with his son Hugo, he wrote the script for The Smile as a mini-series of five episodes of about 8 minutes each, which was then edited into a 27-minute film.
The Smile tells the story of a young opera singer (Morgane Heyse) who is troubled while rehearsing alone on a large empty stage. Trapped in the theatre, she feels crushed by the place, then by the appearance of a chimera (Julie Vercauteren) who embodies celebrity and opulence, but also by the reminiscence of a passionate love affair (Kamil Ben Hsaïn Lachiri).
Two poems by William Blake will show her the direction in her meaning quest:
The Fly, about the fragility of existence, sung by the messenger (Pierre Derhet), then The Smile, which our heroine will sing at the end, about the search for sincerity beyond our social constructions of identity.
On the strength of this first operatic experience in front of the camera, Jean-Marie Marchal, director of the Cav&ma and producer of the film, and Stéphane Orlando decided to perpetuate this flexible contemporary vocal formation, by naming it Cave Cantores, and to immediately launch a new film-opera project.
From 15 to 18 November of the same year, Stéphane Orlando shot Night Falls at the Delta in Namur, another important cultural centre in the Walloon capital. It features the Cave Cantores singers in five voices, around the jazz singer Veronika Harcsa, the heroine of the story.
The inner struggle is that of a singer living between two worlds, the classical world of her illustrious cellist father (Jean-Paul Dessy) and the jazz world of her friends, a saxophonist (Bo Van der Werf), a guitarist (Benjamin Sauzereau) and a pianist (Stéphane Orlando), which she sees as an opportunity for greater artistic freedom.
Four lines from William Blake's poem Night guide the narrative through different pieces of a puzzle of real and invented memories - she is seen as a child trying to get her father's attention or delirious and motionless on the Delta roof. This jumble of past, present and future crystallises into a powerful musical bad trip with catastrophic consequences.
Here again, the sung lyrics, written by Veronika Harcsa, help us to understand the evolution of the story.

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1.	The smile - Intro 01:05	info	buy track
2.	The Smile - Chimera 02:21	info	buy track
3.	The Smile - Breath 01:19	info	buy track
4.	The Smile - Desire 02:22	info	buy track
5.	The Smile - Piece for Strings 01:32	info	buy track
6.	The Smile - Bits and pieces 01:09	info	buy track
7.	The Smile - Echo 02:42	info	buy track
8.	The Smile - The smiles of emotions 04:25	info	buy track
9.	The Smile - Comma 01:02	info	buy track
10.	The Smile - Little Fly 02:23	info	buy track
11.	The Smile - Outro 02:00	info	buy track
12.	Night Falls - Mystérieuse Mélisande 12:24	info	buy track
13.	Night Falls 03:20	info	buy track
14.	Night Falls - Sirènes 13:26	info	buy track
15.	Night Falls - Waiting for snow 02:54	info	buy track
16.	Night Falls - Put your load down 06:18	info	buy track

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From 9 to 12 June 2020, Stéphane Orlando directed four young singers from the Centre d'Art Vocal et de Musique Ancienne de Namur (Cav&ma) at the Théâtre Royal de Namur, to produce a film opera for which he also composed the music, under the watchful and creative camera of Thomas P. Decaro.
Together with his son Hugo, he wrote the script for The Smile as a mini-series of five episodes of about 8 minutes each, which was then edited into a 27-minute film.
The Smile tells the story of a young opera singer (Morgane Heyse) who is troubled while rehearsing alone on a large empty stage. Trapped in the theatre, she feels crushed by the place, then by the appearance of a chimera (Julie Vercauteren) who embodies celebrity and opulence, but also by the reminiscence of a passionate love affair (Kamil Ben Hsaïn Lachiri).
Two poems by William Blake will show her the direction in her meaning quest:
The Fly, about the fragility of existence, sung by the messenger (Pierre Derhet), then The Smile, which our heroine will sing at the end, about the search for sincerity beyond our social constructions of identity.
On the strength of this first operatic experience in front of the camera, Jean-Marie Marchal, director of the Cav&ma and producer of the film, and Stéphane Orlando decided to perpetuate this flexible contemporary vocal formation, by naming it Cave Cantores, and to immediately launch a new film-opera project.
From 15 to 18 November of the same year, Stéphane Orlando shot Night Falls at the Delta in Namur, another important cultural centre in the Walloon capital. It features the Cave Cantores singers in five voices, around the jazz singer Veronika Harcsa, the heroine of the story.
The inner struggle is that of a singer living between two worlds, the classical world of her illustrious cellist father (Jean-Paul Dessy) and the jazz world of her friends, a saxophonist (Bo Van der Werf), a guitarist (Benjamin Sauzereau) and a pianist (Stéphane Orlando), which she sees as an opportunity for greater artistic freedom.
Four lines from William Blake's poem Night guide the narrative through different pieces of a puzzle of real and invented memories - she is seen as a child trying to get her father's attention or delirious and motionless on the Delta roof. This jumble of past, present and future crystallises into a powerful musical bad trip with catastrophic consequences.
Here again, the sung lyrics, written by Veronika Harcsa, help us to understand the evolution of the story.

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released December 15, 2023

A voice screening by Stéphane Orlando

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