Le Petit Prince

Un conte musical inspiré du Petit Prince d’Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

Musique originale des compositeurs canadiens Denis Gougeon et Yves Daoust.

Ce spectacle mélange audacieusement musique originale, lumières et effets visuels.

Ce conte musical puissant, débordant de fantaisie, de mystère et d’émotion, nous fait connaître le petit prince d’Antoine de Saint-Exupéry et les personnages de son univers fantastique.
Une histoire émouvante, intemporelle, universelle et inoubliable pour tous.

Récipiendaire du prix OPUS Spectacle jeune public de l’année 2000.

Téléchargez le Cahier Pédagogique (PDF)

Durée

Langue

Âge suggéré

Version disponible

Devis et fiche technique

55 minutes

français, anglais

8 ans et plus

2 solistes narrateurs et orchestre symphonique

Pour la fiche ou le devis technique, merci de bien vouloir nous contacter à info@arsenal.ca

ÉQUIPE

Équipe de création

Concept visuel

Musique

Adaptation du texte

Mise en scène

Mazouz Ould Abderrahmane

Costumes

Sylvie Melançon

Conception & Direction Artistique

Reggi Ettore

Lorena Corradi

INSTRUMENTATION

2 flûtes (la seconde joue aussi du piccolo)
2 hautbois
2 clarinettes en si bémol (la seconde joue aussi de la clarinette basse)
2 bassons
4 cors d'harmonie
2 trompettes en ut
1 trombone ténor

Premiers violons
Seconds violons
Altos
Violoncelles
Contrebasses

Percussion 1: caisse claire, glockenspiel, bâton de pluie, arbre-marqueur, sifflet
Percussion 2: vibraphone, grosse caisse, cymbale charleston

Jacques Collin

miltimedia design

Renowned especially for his collaboration with Robert Lepage’s company Ex Machina (with whom he has been working since 1992), Jacques Collin has earned an international reputation as a multimedia artist. His visual creations have won him numerous prizes and awards both at home and abroad.
Planet Baobab is his first collaboration with l’Arsenal à musique.

Yves Daoust

compositeur

It was while working as a sound technician at the National Film Board of Canada that Yves Daoust discovered electroacoustic music. His music is figurative, using sounds from nature and from daily life.
He has composed over thirty works for musical ensembles and theatre groups. A founding member of the Association pour la création et la recherche électroacoustique du Québec, and certified composer at the Canadian Music Centre, he also teaches electroacoustic composition at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec.
For l’Arsenal à musique, he composed the score for Eary Adventures and, together with Denis Gougeon, the music for Planet Baobab and Alice.

Denis

Denis Gougeon

composer

Hailed as one of the most gifted composers of his generation, Denis Gougeon is often called upon to create works for orchestras and performers in Canada and abroad, for concert music as well as for theatre and dance productions.
Acclaimed by audiences and critics in North America and in Europe, his work is accessible, dynamic and very melodious. In November 2000, the Conseil québécois de la musique awarded him an Opus for composer of the year.
Gougeon composed the music for Planet Baobab and Alice along with Yves Daoust.

Michele

Michèle Marineau

author

Michèle Marineau worked as a freelance editor before launching a double career as a translator and author of children’s books. She won the Governor General’s Award in 1988 for her first book of fiction, Cassiopée ou l’été polonais, and has since received many prestigious honours for her books for children.
Michèle Marineau’s first collaboration with l’Arsenal à musique was her adaptation of Planet Baobab, a musical inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.

Mazouz

Mazouz Ould Abderrahmane

stage director

Filmmaker, scriptwriter and stage director, Mazouz settled in Quebec in 1977, after a prolific career as actor and stage director in his native Algeria and in France. Well known for his work at the National Film Board of Canada and at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Mazouz has since branched out into scriptwriting, producing and stage directing.
Planet Baobab is Mazouz’s third collaboration with l’Arsenal à musique since 1996.

Sylvie