Jeudi 9 octobre 2025 - 19h00
CALVI - Eglise Sainte Marie Majeure
Voix Jean-Claude Acquaviva, François Aragni, Jean-Do Bianco, Petr’Antò Casta, Paul Giansily, Maxime Vuillamier
Le groupe A Filetta, qui s’est construit dans la rencontre a, tout au long de sa longue carrière (bientôt 50 ans), mis ses voix à la disposition d’autres disciplines : théâtre, danse, cinéma. C’est la raison pour laquelle on trouve son nom à l’affiche de grands classiques de la tragédie grecque ou latine, de films incontournables du cinéma français ou encore de subtiles chorégraphies ayant fait le tour de la planète.
Fort d’un large répertoire extrêmement varié, le groupe propose ici de réinterpréter les titres issus de ces grands succès allant des mises en scène d’œuvres de Sophocle, de Sénèque, à la musique des films « Don Juan » de Jacques Weber, « Himalaya l’enfance d’un chef » d’Eric Valli ou encore « Le libertin » de Gabriel Aghion (toutes écrites par Bruno Coulais). En outre, figureront également au répertoire, les compositions du groupe pour les chorégraphies de Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (« In Memoriam », « Apocrifu » et « Puz/zle ») ; un voyage vocal haut en couleurs évoquant aussi bien les Sortilèges de Médée la colchidienne, l’astuce d’Ulysse et de ses compagnons face aux cyclopes, que les élucubrations d’un cardinal incarné par Michel Serrault ayant consommé des champignons hallucinogènes !
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."
