The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Dark Forces
Place de la Comédie
Lyon 1er
Debat organized as part of "Upsetting truths ", copresented by the Villa Gillet, the Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse and the Opéra de Lyon
With : Lionel Obadia, Michel Terestchenko, Michel Schneider
The debate echoes opera festival dedicated to Benjamin Britten (Peter Grimes, Le Tour d’écrou, Curlew River) from April 10th to 29th at the Opéra de Lyon.
Benjamin Britten was a major 20th-century composer whose highly modern work addressed disturbing questions: marginality, insanity, homosexuality, moral taint, etc. These themes, which run through his work, will serve as the point of departure for this discussion. Art, philosophy, and psychoanalysis will examine the human capacity for evil. Confronted with scandal, would an artist be able to understand the mystery and reveal the dark forces of the psyche? How are desire and perversion connected? How can an individual’s internal monstrosities be understood and connected with a time period? How do we imagine evil today?
Using Britten’s work as a mirror, a philosopher (Michel Terestchenko), an anthropologist (Lionel Obadia), and a writer, psychoanalyst and musicologist (Michel Schneider) will try to answer this question.
In partnership with Le Bal des Ardents bookstore.
> 5 € / free for students, unemployed and Pass’Opéra Jeunes et solidarité owners.
Reservations : Opéra de Lyon
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