Colette: Femme Fatale or misunderstood genius

COLETTE: FEMME FATALE OR MISUNDERSTOOD GENIUS?

Performers: Noé Inui, violin, Vassilis Varvaresos, piano, Chiara Tissen, actress

A woman of extremes, writer, journalist, actress and an icon in France!

Based on the life and work of French writer Colette, accompanied by compositions of her contemporaries, Noé, Vassilis and actress Chiara Tissen take you through late 19th-early 20th-century France. It is a time of avant-garde, symbolism, surrealism, sexuality, scandals, variety, gender fluidity, and love – or what passes for it – but also of the Great War, anti-Semitism and crisis. Compositions by Ravel, Poulenc, Debussy, among others, that pearl, scour, deepen and illuminate alongside texts that tell us about a time that may not even be that different from today….