Francis Kurkdjian x Cyril Teste

En revisitant l’électrisante Salomé de Richard Strauss et l'envoûtante Norma de Vincenzo Bellini pour l’Opéra national de Vienne (Autriche), le metteur en scène Cyril Teste poursuit son lien avec le parfum. Quelques années après la mise en scène de Festen et Opening Night, pièces de théâtre pour lesquelles Cyril Teste avait sollicité Francis Kurkdjian, l’histoire se poursuit. Ces opéras sont l’occasion pour Francis Kurkdjian de créer un accord olfactif incarnant l’héroïne et sa célèbre Danse des Sept Voiles pour Salomé, et une carte parfumée qui rappelle l’atmosphère intime et sacrée de la forêt druidique de Norma.

« Cyril et moi partageons une vision commune. Nous racontons des histoires, chacun à notre façon, dans un langage qui nous est propre. J'aime sa manière de fédérer des esprits créatifs et d’organiser l’écosystème qui naît de cette alliance. »

Francis Kurkdjian

Salome, a princess orphaned of her father and harassed by her stepfather, experiences a violent passion for John the Baptist, a prophet held prisoner. Rejected by the latter, who sees in her not a desirable young woman but a traumatized child, Salome demands of her stepfather Herod that the prophet be beheaded.

Cyril Teste conveys Salome's energy and manages to bring out her emotions and torments while telling the story of a dynasty that is inevitably heading towards its destruction. His staging is accompanied by a unique olfactory accord, diffused within the Opera, created by Francis Kurkdjian to emotionally reinforce the Dance of the Seven Veils. Through this accord, which embodies Salome's duality, between childhood and femininity, innocence and provocation, the veils materialize and the heroine reveals herself in all her intimacy to the public.

Francis Kurkdjian x Cyrils Teste - Maison Francis Kurkdjian

Francis Kurkdjian x Cyril Teste - Maison Francis Kurkdjian

A Gaulish priestess linked to the goddess of peace and fertility, Norma is put to the test as her people grumble with revolt and her lover considers leaving her for a younger woman. In homage to the sacred and mysterious universe of the opera, and particularly to the overwhelming prayer Casta Diva addressed by the heroine to her protective goddess, Francis Kurkdjian has composed a scented card given to spectators whose accord evokes the sacredness of the Druidic forest where the whole story takes place.