Raphaël - Karaoké - Tournée

Duration: 1h20 ‘Does a scorpion abandon its shell for the night?’ Once again, the same dream... Going on stage unprepared: what do you do in that case? asks the singer Raphaël of his phone’s AI.

“A karaoke,” the AI replies. “It’s your only chance.”

A backing track of a popular hit blasts out at full volume, then cuts off: “Sorry, you do not have the rights to this song...”

Karaoké is not an ordinary concert. It is a free, hypnotic form, boldly experimental in its structure. A labyrinth in which Raphaël loses his way between his songs, phantom covers and the voice of an all-knowing artificial intelligence.

On stage, four musicians and an actress, but also mental images rising to the surface, illusions, and a karaoke session that turns into a nightmare.

The audience witnesses an inner journey: childhood memories, family ghosts, invoking Bowie or Johnny, real and imaginary crashes.

The show swings between humour and vertigo, poetry and technological satire.

Here, the songs are doors opening onto other worlds.

A total show, musical and visual, in which the truth appears between the words, behind the superimposed screens.

And where, perhaps, the only solution is to dare to let go of one’s shell.

Raphaël

Recommended minimum age: 14 years

A creation by Raphaël

In artistic collaboration with Cyril Teste

Assistant director: Céline Gaudier

Dramaturgy: Thomas Bidegain

Raphaël is dressed by Véronique Nichanian, artistic director of Hermès men’s wear

Guitar / Vocals / Piano: Raphaël

Live voice of the AI: Laetitia Spigarelli

Keyboards, Cristal Baschet / Saxophone: Marc Chouarain

Drums: Aymeric Westrich

Double bass: Hagar Ben-Ari

General stage management: Jean-Marc Besson

Sound engineer: Frédéric Lucas

Backline / stage: Clément Rateau

Lighting stage management and design: Julien Boizard

Video design: Mehdi Toutain-Lopez

Video camera operator: Nicolas Doremus

Set design: Nina Chalot