La Tentation de Saint-Antoine au Chat Noir : un exemple de collaboration multidisciplinaire

• Main Author: Michela Niccolai
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) 2019-06-01
• Series: Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/3586

Among the adaptations of La Tentation de saint Antoine de Flaubert, the one made by Henri Rivière deserves special attention. « Féerie à grand spectacle en 2 actes et 40 tableaux », La Tentation for the shadow theatre (1887) is a composite show that blended the visual component with the music (original and arranged by Albert Tinchant and Georges Fragerolle) inside a fixed device where the evocative appearance of the paintings carried the viewer into a mystical universe. The music plays a central role because, in the absence of a text, it must be narrated, so that known tunes, drawn from operas, operettas and café-concert, often used with a parodic sense, alternate with original music composed by Tinchant and Fragerolle. La Tentation de Saint-Antoine is the first true shadow show at the Chat Noir, opening a multidisciplinary collaboration that occurs during the play’s genesis and also during the performance on stage.