Cultural Actions
Transmit lyrical art to younger generations
One of the missions of Lyrique-en-mer is to transmit lyrical art to younger generations. Each year, new cultural mediation actions are put in place, aiming to connect audiences with lyrical artistic offerings.
Since mid-2024, Lyrique en Mer has decided to reinforce the association's Artistic Direction by asking Jazmin Black-Grollemund to take up a new position as Delegate for Cultural Actions and Education.
School year 2024-2025
Carmen Investigation
Art Direction Solenn Le Berre and Jazmin Black Grollemund
Dramaturgy Marion Jacquemet
Born of a desire to democratize lyric art, the Carmen Investigation project, supported by the Lyrique-en-mer Festival, is envisaged as an artistic creation project that propels students at Michel Lotte middle school into the roles of spectators, composers, authors, video makers and performers (81 students enrolled in the choral singing option).
Public performances at the Salle Arletty on May 16 and 17, 2025, ticketing open.
As we celebrate in 2025 the 150th anniversary of its first performance at the Opéra Comique in Paris, Bizet's Carmen offers an opportunity to engage with students in a critical reflection on the libretto's notions of freedom, consent, and the rights of men and women. Notions that echo the diversity of each student's experience, and whose sharing is at the heart of the show's creative process.
In an island context of rurality and isolation, it is essential to encourage teenagers' access to cultural heritage, and to foster a spirit of openness to others and to the world. With the aim of federating and promoting "living together", Carmen Investigation includes the participation of CM1 and CM2 pupils from Stanislas Poumet elementary school on Belle-île and allophone pupils from the UPE2A class at Rouault secondary school in Paris.
In a creative, experimental and sensitive approach, everyone will have to demonstrate their adaptability and agility to become responsible for themselves and the collective.
The educational teams are closely involved in the project alongside the two lyric artists. Throughout the year, they will be working with other artists in the form of workshops with pupils from collège Michel Lotte, école élémentaire de Le Palais and collège Georges Rouault in Paris. This physical link will be reinforced by digital exchanges (creation of podcasts and video capsules). The audiovisual and documentary component will be supervised by Les Tempestaires, an association of entertainment professionals specialized in image education.
Carmen Investigation will be the result of the teenagers' appropriation of Bizet's work. In an hour-long show, alongside professionals, the students will perform the leading choruses from Bizet's work, their own original compositions and theatrical sketches. The dramaturgy will be articulated around the broadcasting of their
audiovisual productions and a choreographed staging. Audiovisual coverage of the creation, from the first workshop to the performance, will give rise to a documentary production that will in itself constitute an educational and communication medium.
"La Semaine Lyrique" from May 19 to 23, 2025
Lyricorama
Artistic Direction :
La Compagnie - The Queen of Hearts
Songs :
Denis Mignien and Jazmin Black Grollemund
Accordion :
Alexander Prussia
The voice is surely the most mysterious instrument of all.
- How does it work?
- What are the different tessituras?
- What are the directories?
- What can you do with an operatic voice?
- Why do opera singers sing so loudly? We can't understand a thing!
- Why is opera always sung in foreign languages?
- What stories are told at the opera?
With the aim of federating and promoting "living together", Lyric Week will include the participation of elementary school, secondary schools, the EHPAD and the UTL (Université du Temps Libre). These performances, adapted to each audience, are offered to all schools, the idea being to be able to offer this action to all belle-Ile inhabitants, children and adults alike.
A great mission!
Denis Mignien and Jazmin Black Grollemund, accompanied by Alexandre Prusse on accordion, will answer all your questions in a tailor-made educational workshop-show.
Thanks to this musical conference or rather this concert with commentarythese three artists take you on a journey discover everything you wanted to know about opera singingwithout ever having dared to ask...
Luminor, the firefly with the golden voice
Artistic Direction :
La Compagnie - Magique Lyrique
Firefly Luminor has lost her friends: she needs to find them before nightfall!
She asks around. They are willing to cooperate, but only in exchange for a song about themselves. Luminor, who was afraid to sing like a rattle, gradually gains confidence, and has fun as she meets new people: owl, hen, snail, big deer, green mouse and little fish come out of their hiding places to sing a rhyme.
As night falls, the stars light up one by one, and the fireflies gather.
A show for toddlers presented in nurseries and kindergartens.
A 25-minute, interactive, poetic musical show performed by an opera singer, in which children take part.
The young spectators are invited to take part in Luminor's quest: by helping her find certain characters hidden in the set (sight), by calling the sleeping owl or singing a familiar nursery rhyme (voice), by bringing the set to life with body percussion: the sound of wind, leaves, water (motor skills).
They also listen to excerpts from lyrical arias, discovering the voice as a musical instrument, in this case "a capella".
From their earliest days, children are sensitive to music, to the voices of their loved ones, to the rhythm of everyday life.
It's important for us to offer children small, easily accessible forms for a first experience of the singing voice, which can create a beautiful memory for them, and perhaps awaken their taste for music.
A look back at the 2023-2024 school year
An ambitious project to transmit and learn the Bellilois repertoire began in November 2023 at the Salle Arletty. Supervised by their music teacher Solenn Le Berre, the 63 students from collège Michel Lotte who have chosen the choir option work every fortnight with professional artists: Jazmin Black-Grollemund (opera singer and choir director) and Aurélien Daniélo (musician, singer and choir director).
The project consisted in giving a new lease of life to the songs of Bellon, with new harmonizations for mixed choir, written by Aurélien Daniélo.
A first performance reserved for schoolchildren took place on May 30, 2024 and two free concerts for the general public were a great success on May 31 and June 1 at the Salle Arletty.
In the past, the "Tous musiciens d'orchestre" program and the promotion of choral singing in secondary schools has led to Lyrique-en-mer's long-standing partnership with the French choral societies. children from Belle-Ile schools, recorded in article 4 of the statutes, testifying to the invaluable educational experience that the opportunity to sing on stage in an opera with professionals represents for Bellilois children (for example Tosca in 2018).
Concert for our younger spectators 2019
Young audience concert 2022
Towards the so-called "impeded" public, a social and solidarity involvement is more and more requested from the artists because music helps to live... A partnership is now contractualized between Lyrique-en-mer and the hospital of Belle-Ile and its associated living places.
Concert at Belle-Ile hospital 2022
2020 Concert at the Belle-Ile hospital
The "Venez Chanter" day will be the fourth group participation concert of Lyrique-en-mer. Soloists, young artists and 150 choristers will sing excerpts from opera choruses, accompanied by the festival orchestra conducted by Philip Walsh. This fraternal and vibrant sharing of artistic, human and spiritual values enhances everyone's contribution to cultural life, and is a unique experience in making music a common heritage.
Since 2014 preferential ticket rates are available to permanent residents of Belle Isle to enable easy access to the concerts. This measure concerns between 1/5 and 1/4 of the total number of spectators. In 2020, Lyrique-en-Mer initiated the pre-recorded screening of the 2019-2020 Metropolitan Opera season (tickets 12€ and 15€) at the Rex cinema in Le Palais and also screens, free of charge to the public, “Opéra sur Écran(s)” (Opera on Screen(s)) with Puccini’s Madam Butterfly being shown on 16th June live from the Opera House in Rennes.
Lyrique-en-mer's membership of the Federation of Classical Music Festivals of Bretagne reinforces its regional affiliation and the opportunities for collaboration and sharing with other musical events in the area.
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