Saturday 21, July > 20h Opéra Berlioz / Le Corum

Carmine Coppola
Godfather suite
Apocalypse now suite

Giacomo Puccini
Manon Lescaut, acte IV

Svetla Vassileva, soprano
Roberto Alagna, ténor

With the support of Veolia Eau

Granted, Francis Ford Coppola is no composer but, like Fellini with Nino Rota, his cinema is indissociable from the musical works that accompany it. From the Godfather series, evoking the American mafia with music by Rota and his own father, Carmine, in the background, to the delirium of Apocalypse Now and its helicopter Walkyries, by way of the harsh voice of Tom Waits for the marvellous One from the Heart or Stewart Copeland’s swaying rhythms for Rumble Fish, his musical choices reflect a mind attentive to the very essence of the sound element. Today, primarily a producer for the films of his daughter, Sofia (Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation), and Tim Burton (Sleepy Hollow, 2000), he perceives the cinema as a gigantic dream machine, suitable for creating the hallucinations of the future as well as ‘a conscience that unites us’. Which could also be another definition of music…

Franck Mallet