An original and majestic
rendering of the «Cantique des Cantiques»...
« ...Another facet of Simon Elbaz
uniting Theatre, Story-Telling, Halqa (theatre in
circle held in a public square). A grand finale -
at the same time festive and full of emotion,
with the help of Florence Capo and Rachid Brahim-Djelloul,
this majestic and original rendering of the «Song
of Songs » in hebrew, arabic,and french
made the pause sign of these representations. »L'Arche
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La Nuit Du MATROUZ
« ...Simon Elbaz is a man of extreme
sensivity, doubled with a great humanism. He has
vowed his existence to music, that which
oscillates between sacred and secular, which
comes from his origins and borrows from different
cultures. His harmonies are inspired from Matrouz,
work pluri-cultutral judeo-islamo-christian from
the glorious period of al-Andalus. A real
ecumenical call which wishes to be an opening
between peoples with a view to universality, the
Matrouz, poetic creation generaly declaimed one
verse in hebrew, one in arabic, has found in
Simon Elbaz its harmonic complement. In combining
words, dance steps and notes, the musician has
oversized the message and opened to new
interpretations a text already rich and generous
. »Potins de Scène
- Nice
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officiel des manifestations de l’année du
Maroc" in France, this evening will be made
up songs, acting, dancing, concerts around the
comedian, author-composer Simon Elbaz, mixture
and marriage of cultures, at the interior of the
same work. Simon Elbaz has chosen to adapt the
process of Matrouz to the stage, to music and to
all forms of creation, playing on the differences.
The music of Simon Elbaz takes us to the orient
intermingling in his songs hebrew, arabic and
spanish languages. It is the living song of
crossed tongues. » La
semaine des spectacles - Côte d'Azur
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The year of Morocco at Nice
« ...The City Theatre brings you for
its second edition of Music in May, the Night of
Matrouz. The public will discover plays, oriental
and spanish dances and also Tales and short
stories from Morocco and elsewhere. An evening at
the crossing of alive oral tradition, at the
frontier between sacred and secular, where
conviviality will be in place. »L'Officiel des Loisirs - Côte d'Azur
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The Night of Matrouz at
the City Theatre
« ...An exceptional evening tomorrow
Saturday at the City Theatre with the Living Song
of the Intertwinning Languages judeo-arab-spanish.
Simon Elbaz comedian, author, composer will
orchestrade this Night of Matrouz, which from 9 p.m.
till dawn will offer us a show original, poetic,
touching. Matrouz means literally the art of
embroidery. Simon Elbaz adapts this procedure to
the stage and to a musical score. The result is
an offering to the dialogue of cultures. »Nice Matin
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