Décaméron - Avignon Opera house(2026) - Décaméron - Opéra Grand Avignon (2026)

Description

World premiere.

"Ten young people in an abandoned theater. Outside, chaos, but inside, a pact: to tell stories, to remember that life goes on; like Boccaccio, who once wrote The Decameron to ward off the plague and fear. So, in this closed setting, the means matter little: only the urgency to create matters.

A masterpiece of the Middle Ages, The Decameron was the first great popular bestseller, a whirlwind of bawdy, romantic, cruel, and burlesque stories, a theater of the world where princes and pirates, ruses and desires, illusions and truths intersect. But here, there's no reenactment: just ten bodies to embody everything.

For this creation shakes up the codes of opera. No orchestra, no hierarchy between disciplines: first and foremost, a theatrical celebration, abolishing the boundaries between song, speech, and acting. Matteo Franceschini and Caroline Leboutte bring to their subject an energy of a troupe, punctuated by an organic score that erases the boundaries between styles.

To tell stories is already to resist; and to find oneself is already to choose hope. The Decameron does not judge, does not decide. It provokes, amuses, sometimes disturbs; it celebrates what unites us, and challenges what divides us. And above all, it reminds us of one essential thing: in the midst of turmoil, salvation comes from the collective."

With : Charlotte Avias, Clara Barbier Serrano, Elena Caccamo, Mathieu Dubroca, Hélène Escriva, Elena Olga Groppo, Robin Kirklar, Laure Magnien, Laura Muller et Manuel Nuñez Camelino.

More iformation is available on the official website of the opera house.