LE VOL DU BOLI

At the crossroads between arts, this creation begins in 1931 when, during an ethnographic mission, Michel Leiris steals a Malian Boli. A sacrilege. Following the sacred fetish from a display at the Quai Branly museum to the 13th century Manding Empire, the opera reveals the violence of the Africa-Europe relationship.

Music, direction: Damon Albarn
Stage direction: Abderrahmane Sissako
Dramaturgy: Charles Castella
Scenography: Éric Soyer
Cast: Fatoumata Diawara (Sogolon the queen mother), Édouard Borrina Mapaka (King Soundiata Keita), Baba Sissoko (the griot narrator), François Sauveur (Michel Leiris), Emma Liégeois (the secretary to Michel Leiris)
Directed by: Abderrahmane Sissako, Julien Faustino (Frankreich, 2020)
A performance recorded at the Théâtre du Châtelet in October 2020.