Le Papillon Noir

This opera composed by Yann Robin marks the reunion of the brilliant director Arthur Nauzyciel and the author Yannick Haenel after the Jan Karski performance (mon nom est une fiction). A creation that explores the carnal density of memories and emotions.

Coming home one night, straight after a car accident, a woman feels her memory coming back to the edge of her consciousness and remembers all the fragments that make up what one calls the self: the happy times and the bereavements, the emotions and the memories imbued with eroticism, the dark thoughts, the people close to her, her emotions when faced with art…

Like a stream of consciousness, Papillon Noir is sung in a continuous yet halting breath by the soprano Elise Chauvin. Punctuated by the echoes of the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Papillon Noir is an operatic monodrama, for voice, instrumental ensemble, choir and electronic devices, that creates a dialogue between music and text, awakening and forgetting, the secular and the sacred.

State commission - gmem - Métaboles - Multilatérale with the support of the Fondation Ernst Von Siemens pour la musique. With Fonds de création lyrique and la Copie privée

LE PAPILLON NOIR

Yann Robin, music
Yannick Haenel, libretto
Arthur Nauzyciel, spacial installation

Les Métaboles (13 singers)
Ensemble Multilatérale
Elise Chauvin, actor - singer
GMEM, live electronics
Léo Warynski, direction

Premiered on May 12th 2018

Dans la presse...

Leo Warynski, who confirms his ability and that of his vocal ensemble of Metaboles to make melodious the most unlikely music

ConcertClassic.com - Michel Grinand
 - Le Papillon noir

Leo Warynski, who confirms his ability and that of his vocal ensemble of Metaboles to make melodious the most unlikely music

ConcertClassic.com - Michel Grinand - Le Papillon noir

Création du papillon noir de Yann Robin - Monologue dans l'au-delà

"It took nine years for composer Yann Robin and writer Yannick Haenel to collaborate on a lyrical work. The result is even more powerfull since the two accomplices have agreed to describe the passage of life to the death of a transgender human being. Under their influence, this fleeting moment becomes a moment of eternity of fifteen minutes during which the listener attends, in an atmosphere of sound disintegration, the extinction of a living being. The strings of the Multilateral Ensemble rub, tap and creak, brass with turned mouths produce blown sounds, percussion beats like a distraught heart, tinkle like a knell or hammer the highlights of this descent into hell. The Metaboles choir chanting mantras from the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thödol), panting like a breathless soul, vociferates secret words under the energetic and inspired leadership of Leo Warynski.
 "It's a very energetic music, powerful, disconnected from the notions of tone and atonality and where the chorus mixes lyricism and saturation of the sound so that its granulation merges with that of the orchestra," says the young chef Léo Warynski, who confirms his ability and that of his vocal ensemble Metaboles to make melodious music the most improbable. Leading Le Papillon noir involves working on the beat and rhythm and managing the energies produced to dramatize the action. It's a very virtuosic direction."

Leo Warynski, who confirms his ability and that of his vocal ensemble of Metaboles to make melodious the most unlikely music

ConcertClassic.com - Michel Grinand
 - Le Papillon noir

Leo Warynski, who confirms his ability and that of his vocal ensemble of Metaboles to make melodious the most unlikely music

ConcertClassic.com - Michel Grinand - Le Papillon noir

Création du papillon noir de Yann Robin - Monologue dans l'au-delà

"It took nine years for composer Yann Robin and writer Yannick Haenel to collaborate on a lyrical work. The result is even more powerfull since the two accomplices have agreed to describe the passage of life to the death of a transgender human being. Under their influence, this fleeting moment becomes a moment of eternity of fifteen minutes during which the listener attends, in an atmosphere of sound disintegration, the extinction of a living being. The strings of the Multilateral Ensemble rub, tap and creak, brass with turned mouths produce blown sounds, percussion beats like a distraught heart, tinkle like a knell or hammer the highlights of this descent into hell. The Metaboles choir chanting mantras from the Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thödol), panting like a breathless soul, vociferates secret words under the energetic and inspired leadership of Leo Warynski.
 "It's a very energetic music, powerful, disconnected from the notions of tone and atonality and where the chorus mixes lyricism and saturation of the sound so that its granulation merges with that of the orchestra," says the young chef Léo Warynski, who confirms his ability and that of his vocal ensemble Metaboles to make melodious music the most improbable. Leading Le Papillon noir involves working on the beat and rhythm and managing the energies produced to dramatize the action. It's a very virtuosic direction."

... great expertise

Diapason- Pierre Rigaudière
 - Papillon noir

... great expertise

Diapason- Pierre Rigaudière - Papillon noir

Voice of the Hereafter at the Festival " Les Musiques de Marseille "
At each National Center of Music Creation its showcase. That of the GMEM in Marseille, the festival Musics, raised its curtain with "ThLe Papillon noir " ambitious operatic monodrama Yann Robin on a text by the writer Yannick Haenel, directed by Arthur Nauzyciel. The meeting of the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles (12 singers) and the Multilateral Ensemble (13 musicians) was certainly a rich idea. In the first place, because it blatantly opens the writing of a composer that we began to associate a little too systematic to the "saturation". The crushed sounds of the strings or clefts of the reeds are certainly there, as are the strokes on the instrument case or the strings of the piano, as well as the massive percussion reinforcements. But they are only part of the palette, also rich in Ligeti raw lights, subtle iridescence, resonances and meticulously proportioned mixtures. Chief conductor of Metaboles, Leo Warynski also demonstrates great expertise: his work on the balances between the instruments and the choir is remarkable, as is his preparation for this quarter-tone choir, the requirement for rhythmic tone, and the fashions. diversified emission - several textures of white noise, strohbass register, diffracted sounds.

... great expertise

Diapason- Pierre Rigaudière
 - Papillon noir

... great expertise

Diapason- Pierre Rigaudière - Papillon noir

Voice of the Hereafter at the Festival " Les Musiques de Marseille "
At each National Center of Music Creation its showcase. That of the GMEM in Marseille, the festival Musics, raised its curtain with "ThLe Papillon noir " ambitious operatic monodrama Yann Robin on a text by the writer Yannick Haenel, directed by Arthur Nauzyciel. The meeting of the vocal ensemble Les Métaboles (12 singers) and the Multilateral Ensemble (13 musicians) was certainly a rich idea. In the first place, because it blatantly opens the writing of a composer that we began to associate a little too systematic to the "saturation". The crushed sounds of the strings or clefts of the reeds are certainly there, as are the strokes on the instrument case or the strings of the piano, as well as the massive percussion reinforcements. But they are only part of the palette, also rich in Ligeti raw lights, subtle iridescence, resonances and meticulously proportioned mixtures. Chief conductor of Metaboles, Leo Warynski also demonstrates great expertise: his work on the balances between the instruments and the choir is remarkable, as is his preparation for this quarter-tone choir, the requirement for rhythmic tone, and the fashions. diversified emission - several textures of white noise, strohbass register, diffracted sounds.

2021

November

Friday, November 19 2021 - 8:30 pmLe Papillon NoirThéâtre d'Arras

 

Une femme rentre chez elle. Elle se met à l’aise, se sert un verre à boire, se prépare à manger. Bientôt, son discours, comme un flux de pensée, révèle des failles d’où jaillissent des images, des souvenirs. Elle se rend compte, et le public avec elle, qu’elle est sous le choc : elle vient d’avoir un accident de voiture... 

October

Saturday, October 23 2021 - 8 pmLe Papillon NoirThéâtre national de Bretagne - Rennes

A woman comes home. She gets comfortable, helps herself a glass to drink, gets ready to eat. Soon, his speech, like a flow of thought, reveals loopholes from which images, memories spring up. She realizes, and the audience with her, that she is in shock: she has just had a car accident ...

Friday, october 8 2021 - 9h pmLe Papillon noirLa Scala - Paris

 

A woman comes home. She gets comfortable, helps herself a glass to drink, gets ready to eat. Soon, his speech, like a flow of thought, reveals loopholes from which images, memories spring up. She realizes, and the audience with her, that she is in shock: she has just had a car accident ...

April

Monday, April 12, 2021 - 9 pmLe Papillon noirChaîne youtube de Multilatérale

On line broadcast here 

Yann Robin and Yannick Haenel, with the help of Arthur Nauzyciel, imagined a unique monodrama, an unidentified operatic object with 27 artists on stage. Embodying the young woman, Élise Chauvin is an actress-singer, her voice is a throbbing and panting breath. Singing is the realm of the Choir which, completed by ensemble and electronics, acts as a guide to death, based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Bardo THöd (r) ol which means "the great guide by listening in intermediate states ”.

March

Saturday, March 6 2021 - 8 pmCancelled - Le Papillon NoirThéâtre de la Renaissance - Oullins

An opéra by Yann Robin and Yannick Haenel, with Elise Chauvin, actress-singer
Ensemble Multilatérale
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

January

Wenesday, January 13, 2021Le Papillon noirThéâtre national de Bretagne

Un opéra by Yann Robin and Yannick Haenel, with Elise Chauvin, actress-singer
Ensemble Multilatérale
Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, musical direction

2020

March

Saturday, March 21, 2020 - 8:30 pmCancelled - Le Papillon noirThéatre de la Renaissance - Oullins

Coming home one night straight after a car accident, a woman feels her memory coming back to the edge of her consciousness and remembers all the fragments that make up what one calls the self: the happy times and the bereavements, the emotions and the memories imbued with eroticism, the dark thoughts, the people close to her, her emotions when faced with art…

Like a stream of consciousness, Papillon Noir is sung in a continuous yet halting breath by the soprano Elise Chauvin. Punctuated by the echoes of the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Papillon Noir is an operatic monodrama, for voice, instrumental ensemble, choir and electronic devices, that creates a dialogue between music and text, awakening and forgetting, the secular and the sacred.

Reservation here

Yann Robin, music
Yannick Haenel, libretto
Arthur Nauzyciel, spatial installation

Elise Chauvin, singer
gnem, live electronics
Léo Warynski, musical direction

2018

May

Friday May 18th 2018 - 8 pmLe Papillon NoirAuditorium du Conservatoire de Gennevilliers

Coming home one night straight after a car accident, a woman feels her memory coming back to the edge of her consciousness and remembers all the fragments that make up what one calls the self: the happy times and the bereavements, the emotions and the memories imbued with eroticism, the dark thoughts, the people close to her, her emotions when faced with art…

Like a stream of consciousness, Papillon Noir is sung in a continuous yet halting breath by the soprano Elise Chauvin. Punctuated by the echoes of the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Papillon Noir is an operatic monodrama, for voice, instrumental ensemble, choir and electronic devices, that creates a dialogue between music and text, awakening and forgetting, the secular and the sacred.

Yann Robin, music
Yannick Haenel, libretto
Arthur Nauzyciel, spatial installation

Elise Chauvin, actor - singer
gnem, live electronics
Léo Warynski, musical direction

Saturday May 12th 2018 - 8 pmLe Papillon NoirThéâtre de la Criée (Marseille)

Coming home one night straight after a car accident, a woman feels her memory coming back to the edge of her consciousness and remembers all the fragments that make up what one calls the self: the happy times and the bereavements, the emotions and the memories imbued with eroticism, the dark thoughts, the people close to her, her emotions when faced with art…

Like a stream of consciousness, Papillon Noir is sung in a continuous yet halting breath by the soprano Elise Chauvin. Punctuated by the echoes of the Bardo Thödol, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Papillon Noir is an operatic monodrama, for voice, instrumental ensemble, choir and electronic devices, that creates a dialogue between music and text, awakening and forgetting, the secular and the sacred.

Yann Robin, music
Yannick Haenel, libretto
Arthur Nauzyciel, spatial installation

Elise Chauvin, actor - singer
gnem, live electronics
Léo Warynski, musical direction