Premiers - 2021/2022

Tom: Perhaps I am walking along a street at night, in some strange city, before I have found companions. I pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. The window is filled with pieces of coloured glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colours, like bits of a shattered rainbow...

French romantic composer Hector Berlioz goes to see his childhood love Estelle Duboeuf and proposes to elope with the decent grandmother, taking her away from her family. They recall the passion of their youth, buried deep later on, conforming to conventions. But it’s never too late to “stop time”. True love lives on agelessly in everyone, it just takes courage to experience it.

“I am the accused! It is I who will solve the mystery!”

“What people thought would happen never did. / What they did not expect, the gods made happen.”

“His was the light which lit these eyes of mine; / yet let them grieve; those who see wrong, weep long.”