Jean-Claude ACQUAVIVA - François ARAGNI - Jean-Do BIANCO - Petr'Antò CASTA - Paul GIANSILY - Maxime VUILLAMIER
 
A Filetta’s music is a journey… It could be said that it is a polyphonic and vocal proposal which is challenging, audacious and contemporary, even though coming from a powerful oral tradition.
 
It is in 1978 that very young people — among whom teenagers, driven by a strong willingness to contribute to the protection of a declining oral heritage — started their journey… and their journey has been long, sometimes sinuous but always punctuated by discoveries and wonderful encounters. Therefore, the singers gladly confess that « the encounter » is written in their musical DNA. This probably explains why they have never wanted to limit this journey to the perimeter of their roots : encouraged by the tradition they inherited from, they quickly opened to others - other territories, other disciplines, other artists (performers, composers, directors, choreographers). 
  
A Filetta’s music is dedicated to a vision of the world rejecting without any ambiguity identitarian closure and the vocal ensemble’s philosophy is encapsulated in this beautiful aphorism by René Char : « The purest harvests are sowed in a ground that does not exist; they get rid of gratitude and only owe to spring. »

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Photo : Olivier Sanchez


LES DATES DU MOIS D'AOÜT
Vendredi 1er août 2025 
20h30 - Lecture théâtrale "La mort d'Achille" - Compagnie  Philae
22h00 - In voce è detti / Pulifunia / Choeurs de cinéma / Echos de théâtre et de danse
BONIFACIO - Haute-Ville - Parvis de l'école

Lundi 4 août 2025 - 21h00
CALVI - Cathédrale Saint Jean-Baptiste (Citadelle)
Programme In voce è detti / Pulifunia / Choeurs de cinéma / Echos de théâtre et de danse

Mardi 5 août - 21h00
SOTTA - Ecole
Festival de Sotta
Programme I balconi (avec Sandrine Luigi)

Vendredi 8 août 2025 - 21h00
PATRIMONIU - Eglise San Martinu
Programme In voce è detti / Pulifunia / Choeurs de cinéma / Echos de théâtre et de danse

Mardi 12 août - 21h00
Lumiu - Eglise Santa Maria
Programme in voce è detti / Pulifunia / Choeurs de cinéma / Echos de théâtre et de danse

Jeudi 14 août - 21h00
Ile-Rousse - Eglise de la Miséricorde
Programme in voce è detti / Pulifunia / Choeurs de cinéma / Echos de théâtre et de danse

Vendredi 29 août - 21h00
Corti - Eglise de l'Annonciation
Programme In voce è detti / Pulifunia / Choeurs de cinéma / Echos de théâtre et de danse




 
LES DATES DU MOIS DE JUILLET

 

Photo : Olivier Sanchez


LES DATES DU MOIS DE JUIN

Vendredi 6 juin 2025 - 20h30
Eglise Saint Salomon et Saint Grégoire
PITHIVIERS - Festival de Sully et du Loiret
Programme I balconi (avec Sandrine Luigi)

Jeudi 19 juin 2025 - 19h00
CALVI - Cathédrale Saint Jean-Baptiste (Citadelle)
Programme In voce è detti / Pulifunia / Choeurs de cinéma / Echos de théâtre et de danse

Vendredi 27 juin 2025 - 20h00
LÖRRACH - Christuskirche
Programme In voce è detti / Pulifunia / Choeurs de cinéma / Echos de théâtre et de danse


 
PRESS

LIBERATION 

“… A FILETTA have become one of the premier groups in Corsican traditional music thanks to their tenacity, knowledge of Corsican polyphony, above all their constant renewal and the openness of their island repertoire to offshore influences...” 

LE MONDE 

“A show for eleven dancers, seven singers and a musician in which Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui returns to a visual sobriety centred on the dancing body, with a great deal of work on movement and rhythm. The work is also sublimated by the breathtaking majesty of the songs of Corsican vocal ensemble A Filetta and Libanese singer Fadia Tomb El-Hage. (...) The seven voices fill the space like gently blowing up a balloon. A penetration, full of finesse, with a limpid polyphonic texture and an elastic magnitude which takes in both the traditional Corsican and the oriental repertoires of the artists. 

L’HUMANITE 

“Far from fixing the score, the group's polyphony finds its force, on the contrary, in the life and emotions generated by work on the voice timbres of each of its members. Guttural sounds, nasal musicality in certain syllables, mix of intonations... All the art of A Filetta's singers is reinforced by a complex harmony of which only they have the secret.”

L’EXPRESS 

"A FILETTA's voices speak to the skin as much as to the ear... A Filetta sing the soul of their island with a universal talent.” 

LE NOUVEL OBSERVATEUR 

“They are one of the most sumptuous of Corsican polyphonic groups that can be heard... Without being untrue to themselves, A FILETTA have been able to open their immemorial art to other forms of expression, notably by working on film music with the composer Bruno Coulais…” 

LE FIGARO 

“A Filetta, or the Corsican universe”. “A Filetta conquer new aesthetic territories and invent new forms.” 

LA TERRASSE 

“Independent and creative, A Filetta reaffirm their refusal to let themselves be reduced to being the guardians of the temple of the island's vocal art, fixed and devoted only to heritage, but rather give life to an inspired ensemble, certainly rooted in their native land but all the better to keep their nose to the wind, or as is the case today, look to the sky like the fern from which they have taken their name.” 

MONDOMIX 

 “A Filetta, the open song”. “The seven Corsican singers of the polyphonic group A Filetta have pursued a demanding but open road since 1978, linking an ageless oral culture to written traditions, without forgetting to go out and meet the world."

 

 


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