Robert Wilson at the Opera, surrealism at the Center Pompidou, a documentary about Fleetwood Mac… Our 5 cultural must-sees

Surrealism, the age of modernity at the Center Pompidou

Before it closes for renovations in 2025, and while comics are on display on every floor, the Center Pompidou is celebrating surrealism for the publication’s centenary. Manifest By Andre Breton. Adopting a maze-like staging, the route wraps around the original manuscript (on exclusive loan from the National Library of France). Educational audiovisual projection sheds light on its meaning and origins. Structured like a spiral, the exhibition, both chronological and thematic, is punctuated by thirteen chapters devoted to the movement’s literary figures (Lautréamont, Lewis Carol, etc.) and the mythologies that shaped its imagination. Combining paintings, drawings, films, photographs, it presents iconic works such as big masturbator by Salvador Dali A child’s brain By Giorgio de Chirico, or big forest by Max Ernst and reflects the place of women, which has been widely revised in recent years… A popular exhibition that promises to be a blockbuster.

Surrealism until January 13, 2025, at centrepompidou.fr

Madame Butterfly by Robert Wilson at the Opera

To open the 2024-2025 season, Opéra Bastille is planning a revival of the legendary show. Madame Butterfly By Giacomo Puccini, directed by Robert Wilson. Wilson’s style is immediately recognizable. blue shade as decoration, clean gestures, abstract formalism, all this creates a hypnotic universe. We could not have chosen a better person than him, a Japanophile, to stage this work imbued with Japanese culture and rituals.. Madame Butterfly tells the story of an American lieutenant (Pinkerton) who falls in love with and marries a 15-year-old geisha, Cio-Cio-San (Madame Butterfly), who is as fragile as a butterfly’s wings. After a short romance, Pinkerton returns to America… From this classic theme of a woman seduced and then abandoned, Puccini paints an opera with intense lyricism. An ideal playground for Wilson, who, away from the cherry blossoms and the fans, puts on a stylish game in the bare ground. Noh theater is never far away.

Madame ButterflySeptember 14 to October 25, operadeparis.fr

Cunning widowGoldoni’s main work

Cunning widow tells about a young widow (Caterina Murino) who tries to keep her freedom outside of clichés (love, cunning, marriage). With the help of her companion (Sarah Biasini) and Harlequin, she meets four suitors: an Englishman, a Frenchman, a Spaniard, and an Italian. About the intention of director Giancarlo Marinelli. “Comedy is the perfect comic vehicle, speaking both of woman’s liberation from the old world and of her creator’s liberation from the old theater to complete his reformist revolutionary theater.”

Cunning widow By Carlo Goldoni. From September 10 at Bouffes Parisiens in Paris. bouffesparisiens.com

New album by The Waeve, psycho couple

He is the historical guitarist of Blur, he sang in the trio The Pipettes. Graham Coxon and Rose Elinor Dougall also explored solo paths before meeting, falling in love and having a baby and two albums, the latter of which. , City lightscomes out on September 20. Psychic guitars dialoging with saxophone, solemn strings over pop choruses, acrobatic harmonies and romantic lyrics, his own timbre passed through an electrofilter, blending wonderfully with his own exquisite voice… Alliance of opposites to deliver a chiaroscuro record. incredible charm. What we will soon hear on the French stage.

City lightsby The Waeve (Transgressive / Pias)

Fleetwood Mac, rock phoenix

Dreams, Go your way, Big Love, Gypsy, Rhiannon:… There are countless Fleetwood Mac hits that have stood the test of time. Forming in England in the early 1970s, becoming legendary by migrating to the American West Coast and mixing sunny California chords with their virtuoso blues rock, the band has experienced it all. Countless personnel changes, the admiration of the whole crowd, as passionate as destructive love between its own members, exhausting tours, drugs and all kinds of excesses… But if L.he thousand and one musical lives of Fleetwood MacSophie Rosemont’s fascinating documentary recalls everything that made this legendary band a legend, it also chooses to highlight its incredible musical genius and the strength of the two musicians, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie, writers, composers, performers and steadfast friends. . A story that still makes us dream today.

L:he thousand and one musical lives of Fleetwood Mac, By Sophie Rosemont, Friday September 13 at Arte at 10.30pm and available at arte.fr.