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CHAAKAPESH

By Roger FRAPPIER, Justin KINGSLEY

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Art - Culture - Completed 2019

An orchestra and its famous conductor go on tour in the great northern tundra of Quebec to visit the Cree, Innu and Inuit communities and share with them an Aboriginal chamber opera where white people are taught to laugh, and by the same token to love more.

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Festival du nouveau cinéma 2019
TR-IFF 2019
Rendez-vous Québec Cinéma 2020
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    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Art - Culture, Documentary
    • Countries
    • CANADA
    • Languages
    • FRENCH-CANADIAN, ENGLISH-CANADA
    • Duration
    • 126 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Roger FRAPPIER, Justin KINGSLEY
    • Writer(s)
    • Roger FRAPPIER, Justin KINGSLEY
    • Producer(s)
    • Roger FRAPPIER (Max Films)
    • Synopsis
    • In this documentary feature, an orchestra and its famous conductor tour Northern Quebec to visit Cree, Innu and Inuit communities and share a chamber opera whose mission is to teach white men how to laugh again, and therefore love others more. Chaakapesh the Trickster is a famous character across Indigenous culture, including in Cree, Innu and Inuit folklore. The libretto, imagined by famous Cree Playwright Tomson Highway, was created in musical collaboration with composer Matthew Ricketts. Kent Nagano, in his last season leading the Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal, showed great daring and vision by first opening the season with an indigenous collaboration and then bringing his traveling orchestra to Nunavik and the Basse Côte Nord. “We artists are accustomed to taking risks,” Nagano says.The result is a chamber opera that includes two singers, a narrator and a musical ensemble and is performed in five languages: Cree, English, French, Innu and Inuktitut. The narration was determined according to the local language most spoken in each community – in Inuktitut by Akinisie Sivuarapik, in Innu by Florent Vollant and in Cree by Ernest Webb. Chaakapesh the Trickster - written by Tomson Highway, composed by Matthew Ricketts and performed by the OSM under Kent Nagano’s baton – is one of the most important, contemporary and compelling examples of intercultural collaboration in today’s world.
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