Program

"It looks like you're going to be born in town... If you're a little boy, I'll call you Josaphat to have the right to use that name as often as possible for the rest of my days... If you're a little girl, I'll call you Albertine, like my mother's mother, in the hope that you'll be as sweet and as delicate as her... No, if you're a girl, you won't be nice, I know that. You're going to inherit all the ugliest things about me, you're going to inherit all my rage at having been forced to leave the countryside to go and bury me in town... You won't know it, but you're going to drag my great misfortune with you...I won't be able to not pass my misfortune on to you...and not pass it on to your children."

- Victoire, Albertine’s mother, “La maison suspendue”

Misfortune for a legacy. Rage. Michel Tremblay was able to tell the story of the Albertines of this world. This magnificent ode to the courage of women could only find its resonance and lyrical voice through a Collective of women from very different backgrounds. After more than two years of work, the Collective was ready to present this opera with all its strength and beauty, composed by Catherine Major and conceived by a huge team; the blue hour, the next destination lived in unification and peace. This tribute to the universal mother in her gestures of resilience has even found roots in Haiti, where a woman chants, during political, sociological or climatic cataclysms, to all mothers:

« Manman pitit, mare ren »

Litteral translation:

Mothers, tighten your belts.

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Enjoy the show!

Because we are all Albertines...

For Roland...