Le Temps d'Aimer

8pm 4pm Sunday 2 hours 20 minutes with intermission Music Reynaldo Hahn Libretto Henri Duvernois, Hugues Delorme, Albert Wolff Staging Sol Espèche, Pascal Neyron Musical direction Sammy El Ghadab With the Orchestra of Parisian Frivolities Collaboration on staging Agathe Cemin Vocal coach Étienne Jacquet Scenography James Brandily Costumes Sabine Schlemmer Assisted by Julia Brochier Lighting César Godefroy Wigs and prosthetics Maurine Baldassari Assisted by Caroline Boyer Choreography Aurélie Mouilhade General management and stage management Benjamin Bertrand Dressing Mélanie Leprince With Armand Philippe Brocard Suzette Faustine de Monès Hélène Irina de Baghy François Joël Terrin Galimberteaux Igor Bouin Alexandre Maxime Le Gall Marthe Camille Brault Nicole Lisa Bensimhon Gabrielle Jeanne Joppin Germaine Claire Naessens Albert Matthias Deau Maxime Étienne de Bénazé Gaston Ulysse Timoteo Time to Love by Reynaldo Hahn is a sentimental comedy that explores with finesse and irony the mechanisms of desire, the couple and the passage of time.

Faithful to their light French lyric repertoire from the 19th and 20th centuries, the Parisian Frivolities honor this work with themes entirely contemporary that has never been replayed since its creation in 1926. Armand, a mature man, passionately loves his young wife Suzette.

Aware of the age gap that separates them, he seeks to stop time, to preserve the image of love as he believes it should be: young, seductive, hyperactive. But to put in place this deception he thinks necessary, he takes refuge with his friend Hélène to "perk up" quietly.

The lie fabricated for these small escapes will be discovered and trust between him and his wife broken without her being able to know the true motives for these escapades at Hélène's.

Beneath its light appearance, the work questions our relationship to beauty, age, and the social construction of desire At the same time as No No Nanette, welcomed at sa