Le Roi Soleil Musical
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Le Roi Soleil is a successful French musical by Kamel Ouali, produced by Dove Attia and Albert Cohen, about the life of Louis XIV. It premiered on 22 September 2005 at the Palais des Sports in Paris. It is named after Louis XIV.
The play starts with the Fronde against Cardinal Mazarin. Young Louis is the sacred King of Reims. But his power has been confiscated by his mother, Anne of Austria, and the Cardinal, who doubt his ability to rule France alone. Louis falls in love with Marie Mancini, an Italian emigrant without noble birth, niece of Cardinal Mazarin.
To prove himself as a man, the young monarch decides to leave for the war at the head of his armies, a decision that worries Marie.
Louis falls in battle, victim to a serious disease, and for a long time is believed dead. The measures to appoint his brother Philippe as the new King of France start to be carried out.
Marie refuses to accept the fatality and spends many nights by his beside in tears. However, one of the royal doctors administers a drug that miraculously wakes Louis from his sleep, having been forgotten by everyone in the country except Marie and his own family. Now desperately in love with the beautiful Italian, Louis proposes to her.
Marie reminds him that it is impossible for a French King to marry an Italian without birth. Anne of Austria, Mazarin and even the Pope would object.
Louis stubbornly dismisses all opposition, deciding that he is King and will therefore decide his own future.
Nevertheless, Anne of Austria and Mazarin put an end to the dream by banishing Marie into exile and persuading the young King to marry the Spanish princess. The first act ends with the pain of separation. Louis sacrifices his destiny as a man for the destiny of a King.
The second Act begins with the death of Mazarin, upon which Louis siezes power and becomes the Sun King. He loses himself in the arms of many women, forgetting that his people will pay a heavy price for the construction of an excessive dream- the Chateau de Versailles.
After many events such as the matter of the Man in the Iron Mask and the Poison Affair, Louis realizes that he cannot succeed with Marie Mancini. He marries, despite opposition, Francoise d'Aubigne Maintenon, a woman without birth who was the governess of his illegitimate children with Françoise-Athénaïs, marquise de Montespan.
Louis at last succeeds to decide much more than his destiny as a King- his destiny as a man.
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[edit] Production
- Production: Dove Attia, Albert Cohen.
- Presenter: Kamel Ouali.
- General Assistant Director and Scene Attendant: Francois Chouquet.
- Choreography: Patricia Delon, Stéphane Jarny.
- Acting Coach: Guillaume Segouin.
- Vocal Coach: Nathalie Dupuy.
- Costume Designer: Dominique Borg.
- Set Design: Alain Lagarde.
- Lighting: Xavier Lauwers.
- Sound: Laurent Dumont, Manu Guiot.
- Make-up: Jocelyne Lémery.
- Hair: Philippe Koehler, Sebastien Quinet, Raphaël Perrier pour EUGENE PERMA.
- Wigs: Any d'Avray assistée de Christine Chomicki et Sébastien Quinet.
- Musical Direction: Dove Attia.
[edit] Artists
[edit] Main Cast
- Louis XIV : Emmanuel Moire.
- Marie Mancini : Anne-Laure Girbal.
- Monsieur, the King's brother : Christophe Maé.
- Madame de Montespan : Lysa Ansaldi.
- The Duc de Beaufort : Merwan Rim.
- Isabelle, the representative of the people : Victoria Petrosillo.
- Françoise d'Aubigné : Cathialine Andria.
[edit] Songs
[edit] Acte1
- Prélude versaillais (instrumental).
- Contre ceux d'en haut (M. Rim feat. V. Petrosillo).
- Qu'avons-nous fait de vous ? (V. Petrosillo feat. M. Rim).
- Je serai lui (C. Andria).
- Être à la hauteur (E. Moire).
- Ça marche (C. Maé).
- Où ça mène quand on s'aime (A.-L. Girbal, E. Moire).
- Encore du temps (V. Petrosillo).
- Requien Aeternam (V. Petrosillo, M. Rim, A.-L. Girbal).
- A qui la faute (C. Maé).
- Je fais de toi mon essentiel (E. Moire feat. A.-L. Girbal).
- S'aimer est interdit' (A.-L. Girbal, E. Moire).
[edit] Acte 2
- Repartir (M. Rim, V. Petrosillo, C. Andria).
- Le ballet des planètes (instrumental).
- Pour arriver à moi (E. Moire).
- Un geste de vous (L. Ansaldi, C. Maé).
- Le bal des monstres (instrumental).
- Entre ciel et terre (M. Rim, V. Petrosillo).
- Alors d'accord (C. Andria with child)
- J'en appelle (L. Ansaldi).
- L'arrestation (instrumental).
- Personne n'est personne (V. Petrosillo, C. Andria).
- Et vice Versailles (C. Maé feat. E. Moire).
- La vie passe (E. Moire, C. Andria).
- Tant qu'on rêve encore (The entire cast).
