Author: Various Artists

Format: Remixes included

Release Date: 2013-06-18

Details: This is the soundtrack to the play “Chant de Sainte Carmen de la Main”. The 13 songs on the album are performed by key cast members who infuse Michel Tremblay's story with emotion. The album will be released for the 25th anniversary of Montreal's FrancoFolies festival.. Everything in Carmen's legendary tale cries out for a fusion of theatre, music and song. René Richard Cyr and Daniel Bélanger, the duo who transformed Les Belles-Soeurs, unleash the full scale of their talents on this brilliant work by Michel Tremblay. The epic of Sainte Carmen de la Main draws its fiery, glowing heroine, its petty criminals and a motley chorus of prostitutes and transvestites in an irresistible procession. To tell the story of a singer who dies for her decision to liberate the Main by singing of the misery and greatness of those who have failed... with a cast that is worthy of characters who have long been inscribed in Quebec mythology. Spectra Musique immortalizes on disc the musical magic of the Song of Sainte Carmen de la Main. Supported by the skilful studio production of Philippe Brault and the texts of René Richard Cyr, the music of Daniel Bélanger offers 13 titles interpreted with accuracy and emotion by the singers and actors of the piece taken from the work of Michel Tremblay. Starting June 13, 2013, the public will be able to listen again and hum these melodies that so dazzled them, since the album will be launched as part of the 25th anniversary of the FrancoFolies de Montréal. Everything in Carmen's powerful fable calls for the fusion of theatre, music and song. René Richard Cyr and Daniel Bélanger, the duo that transformed Les Belles-Soeurs, deploys in its full scope this masterful work in which Michel Tremblay embraces both the everyday and the mythical, darkness and light. Because Sainte Carmen de la Main draws her incandescent heroine, her little thugs and her colorful choir of prostitutes and transvestites into an irresistible epic movement.

UPC: 622406784126

EAN: 0622406784126

Languages: English

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: Used Good