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Cheerful and naughty!
Le Figaro
Isabelle Georges

Amour Amor

Singing Love and all its jests

Love always but, always with a sens of humor!

Glamorous love, eyelash fluttering, heartbeat, “Always” love but, always, love with a sens of humor! “The verb to love is difficult to conjugate, its past is not simple, its present is only indicative and its future is always conditional. “Said Jean Cocteau. French is the language of love with” three little musical notes … “from Mozart to Gainsbarre and some‘ chabadabada ’, they will find” the words “to say and sing” the thing “at its best.

On an impressionist and humorous thread, a series of archetypal situations resolved by music is revealed. The first time, love at first sight, sexual frenzy, jealousy, lack, venal love, refusal, ruptures, reunions …

Songs, piano, saxophones, guitar, double bass, flute and percussion constitute the raw material of the arrangements signed by Cyrille Lehn. His great musical culture allows him to breathe new life carried by new rhythms, new harmonies and thus offer other readings of works known to the general public by showing the universality of the songs.

Texts, dialogues or monologues are imagined or borrowed from literature (Charles Baudelaire, Pierre de Ronsard) and French cinema (Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Eustache).


Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo L. Lot

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo L. Lot

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo L. Lot

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo L. Lot

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo R. Delalande

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo R. Delalande

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli

To sing love in all its many forms

My first love was called Olivier, he was much smaller than me. I had to lift him up to kiss him. I never knew if he was riding like a bicycle with happiness or fear! I was eight years old.

Since then, I’ve been obsessed, possessed by love, that extraordinary force that takes hold of us when we least expect it. I love the passion, the comic of the first steps, the exhilaration, followed, sometimes very closely, by the feeling of being stranded like a failed soufflé … Ah love !!!

Many authors, composers, filmmakers, choreographers … have already looked at the question with  success, so why make it a show?

This is my only response to the surrounding violence: to sing love in all its forms. This is why I immersed myself in my musical, literary and cinematographic heritage which is full of gems, small stones on the way of our collective unconscious, with the desire to wake up, increase tenfold, ‘sung’ the desire to love and to be loved.

Isabelle Georges


Isabelle Georges « Amour Amor » © photo V. Tonelli bouton lecture
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From Mozart to Gainsbourg, full of wit and emotions.
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Cast & Crew

Conception & lead Isabelle Georges

Piano & vocals Frederik Steenbrink

Double bass & guitar Édouard Pennes

Saxophone, clarinet, flute, percussions & piano Adrien Sanchez

Arrangements Cyrille Lehn

Lights Jacques Rouveyrollis

Assistant Jessica Duclos

Sound Yann Lemetre

Set Nils Zachariasen

Costumes Axel Boursier