King Arthur

Take the best-known character of the Arthurian legend, an opera by Purcell, synthesizers, the energy and talent of La Compagnie Dérivation and you will get King Arthur, an energizing, funny show, and accessible to the whole family. If opera and great epic stories scare you, this is the opportunity to change your mind because Sofia Betz knows how to make magic with next to nothing. On stage, five musicians dust off the opera and preconceived ideas about knights. In this story, the knight has speech disorders and it is a woman, blind, who is the main heroine. As a child, she was bewitched by the powerful Merlin who plunged her into darkness forever. Émeline is engaged to the brave Arthur, but that is not enough for her happiness. She dreams of getting justice and taking control of her destiny. What if it were her, this time, the future of the Kingdom of England? By her trajectory and the desire to get out of a princess character in which she has been stuck for centuries, Émeline frees herself as well as all the others. Because even legends can change their destiny! Sofia Betz makes us dream with a dreamlike set, shiver with the beauty of the revisited Purcell arias, and laugh with their so British humor.