“Romanian Nocturne”, duo ALM’ARTIS. Romanian romances, traditional and religious melodies.
Voice and harp concert, with Romanian melodies: Tiberiu Brediceanu, Trajan Popesco, Paul Constantinesco, Ion Borgovan, Alfred Alessandresco…
And readings of some of my poems, those of Paul Verlaine, Alfred de Musset, Alain Bosquet, and great Tudor Arghezi.
La culture au Grand Jour, concert in Saint-Amand-Magnazeix, 2021.
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December 2019, Media Library of Limoges. With my editor and very well documented librarians. An event around of Romanian poetry. We made a presentation of my collection of poems « Artisans de l’Invisible – Artisans of the Invisible » and we read some of them in French and Romanian. Readings also poems by great Romanian authors: Mihai Eminescu, Tristan Tzara, Ana Blandiana. We answered questions about poetry history, traditions, translation and had large dialogue with the public. With my friend, the guitarist player Franck Lasteyrie we performed a short (voice and guitar) performance.
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September 2019, Cluj – Romania, Romanian concert and poetry readings:
Compositions by Tiberiu Brediceanu, Nicolae Bretan, Ghiorghe Dima, George Enesco, Constantin Râpă, Fillip Ion Sandu, Gaspar Varess.
Poetry readings from my volumes of poetry Mecanique du hasard and l’Assomption.
Young soloists under the direction of Filip Ion Sandu.
Poetry readings during the meeting: Night of poetry of Saint-Jean Le Vieux Château, Vicq-sur-Breuilh, June 2017.
Reading bilingual texts at the Old Castle as part of the Printemps des Poètes. March 2016 Poetry in Limousin, Château Vicq-sur-Breuilh.
The Ex Ponto Magazine (in which I regularly publish poetry) just received the « Ariel Award » of the Writers’ Union of Romania to award the USR awards,an important prize that highlights the important place the magazine has among cultural journals in Romania (2018).
In 2018, I briefly analyzed the concepts of staging in two operas. The theatricality of myth in the musical works Oedipus by George Enescu and Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky
The aim of this lecture is to compare the “theatricality” of two major operas of the twentieth century, Œdipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky (Jean Cocteau’s libretto) and Œdipe by the composer George Enescu and the writer Edmond Fleg. The “dramatic value” of the text is examined through different analytical tools, while hypothesizing that the originality of the structure of the masterpieces, (combining libretto and music), but also their response may explain their enduring successes and their meaningfulness.
The notion of “theatricality” encompasses not only the metaphor that crosses the poem, but also the concrete scene, the relations between the characters, the conception of the stage, light, images, symbols and other visible elements. In this sense, the staging of a play, the embodiment of the work, is already inscribed in the text, while allowing various interpretations and meaningful deviations. Antonin Artaud, Edmond Fleg and Jean Cocteau, essayists, playwrights and theater directors discussed the notion of « visible speech ».
We will address these scenic issues using the work of the directors Valentina Carrasco (for Œdipe) and Julie Taymor (for Œdipus Rex).
Key words: 1)Theatricality 2) Operatic music 3) Symbol 4) Mythe.
This study was part of the session of the 4th edition of the Conference of Mythology and Folklore (Bucharest, October 19-20, 2017), Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures of the University of Bucharest.
