Cécile McLorin Salvant

17.03.2024 — 20:30

Bozar, Henry Le Boeuf Hall

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Cécile McLorin Salvant – composition, voice

Darcy James Argue – arrangement, musical direction
Alexa Tarantino – saxophone, flute, clarinet
Tom Christensen – saxophone, bass clarinet, oboe, English horn
Kirk Knuffke – trumpet
Josh Roseman – trombone, tuba
Warren Wolf – vibraphone, marimba
Brandon Seabrook – guitar, banjo
Helen Sung – piano, organ, melodica
David Wong – double bass

Samuel Torres – percussion

Mivos Quartet
Olivia de Prato – violin
Maya Bennardo – violin
Victor Lowrie – viola
Nathan Watts – cello

Cécile McLorin Salvant & Lia Bertels - visual and digital design
Marie Cirade - projection design

Coproduction

Klarafestival, Bozar

Cécile McLorin Salvant is literally hors catégorie. With her clear, instantly recognisable voice, she explores the most diverse genres and disciplines. This versatility resonates in her new, ambitious project Ogresse, for which she wrote both the libretto and the music. A monstrous woman lives alone in a forest, far from the human world she has fled. One day, a man from the village tries to seduce and kill her. This dark parable balances between Eros and Thanatos, with a hint of gothic fantasy and a nod to Grimm's fairy tales.

The music for jazz ensemble and string quartet meanders between baroque and Broadway, jazz and cabaret. At the crossroads of all these influences McLorin Salvant stands sovereign as a narrator and an incarnation of all characters. An extraordinary allegory about the paradoxes of love, power, gender and diversity.

Programme

Cécile McLorin Salvant

Ogresse

surtitles in French and Dutch

The concert is accompanied by new visuals created by Lia Bertels and animated by Lora D'Addazio, Julien Regnard and Mathilde Rémy, as part of the adaptation of Ogresse into an animated feature film by Cécile McLorin Salvant & Lia Bertels (Miyu productions, Umedia and Ogresse LLC).