Soirée Hommage à Patrice Chéreau @ Théatre de l'Odéon, Paris Nov 03 2013

Soirée Hommage à Patrice Chéreau @ Théatre de l'Odéon, Paris Nov 03 2013

Feat. Marianne Faithfull, Charlotte Rampling, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Isabelle Huppert and a few others...

 Théatre de l'Odéon (with Jean Charles de Castelbajac's angel )

Full house for this tribute to French Director Patrice Chéreau @ Théatre de l'Odéon, one of the most beautiful theatre in Paris, last time we were there it was to see Marianne Faithfull reading Shakespeare's sonnets  last year (link here). 

Many years again, I guess it was 15 years ago, we went to see Lou Reed reading his lyrics.

For tonight's show, Many artists came to talk about Patrice Chéreau or read a letter or some dialogues from a play.

French actors Michel Piccoli, Charlotte Rampling, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Isabelle Huppert, Gérard Desarthe and a couple of others including German director Peter Stein

Laure Adler was the MC for tonight's tribute introducing guests and extracts of documentary or play that wereshown on the screen.

Marianne Faithfull read a text from one of her song: "Sleep" that was in a Chéreau movie, Jane Birkin closed the night with the only song of this tribute to director Patrice Chéreau, singing on her own "L'Amour de moi".
Great night out

 Michel Piccoli (left) Isabelle Huppert (center) & Marianne Faithfull (right)

 Charlotte Rampling (far left) Jane Birkin

Paul McCartney, Bono from U2, Marianne Faithfull + Dhani Harrison @ Stella McCartney Autumn Winter 2013 @ Fashion week, Paris March 04 2013

Paul McCartney, Bono from U2, Marianne Faithfull + Dhani Harrison @ Stella McCartney 

Autumn Winter 2013 @ Fashion week, Paris March  04 2013
Opéra Garnier

 

Cool morning with Stella McCartney's fashion show @ Opéra Garnier, as usual we saw Paul McCartney, this time he was really nice and chatty, he even signed me my "Magical Mistery Tour" booklet (see pic below). BONO from U2 was a nice surprise, he left straight after the show so we couldn't meet him. Dhani Harrison & James McCartney were there as well as Twiggy, Marianne Faithfull and some French Actresses.

We had a nice chat with Dhani Harrison who told us he's about to record a new album with Fistful of Mercy (with Ben Harper & Joseph Arthur).

Twiggy

More from Paul Mc Cartney :

Paul McCartney @ Stella's fashion show on Oct 2012 @ Opéra garnier

Paul McCartney @ Stella McCartney AW 2013 collection @ Hotel de Ville, Paris March 05 2012

Paul McCartney @ Stella's in Oct 2011 @ Opéra garnier

• Paul MCartney @ Stella McCartney in March 2011 @ Opéra garnier

• Paul McCartney @ Stella McCartney Spring Summer 2011 @ Opera Garnier, Paris Oct 4th 2010
• Stella McCartney @ Opéra Garnier AW 2010, Paris March 8th 2010

• Paul McCartney @ Stella McCartney Fashion Week Spring/ Summer 2009 Paris Carreau du Temple Oct 2nd 2008

• Paul McCartney & Friends @ Stella McCartney A/W Fashion Week
  Paris, March 9th 2009 Carreau Du TemplePaul McCartney @ Stella McCartney
• Fashion week Spring /Summer Oct 5th 2009 Palais de Tokyo
• Don't forget to have a look at our review (lots of Pictures and videos) from his show @ Paris Bercy in Dec 2009 : Part 1 & Part 2 (click on links)

U2 @ Stade de France July 12 2009

July 11 2009 First show @ Stade de France

Marianne Faithfull @ Théatre de l'Odéon, Paris Feb 15 2012

Marianne Faithfull @ Théatre de l'Odéon, Paris Feb 15 2012

Not a concert tonight but some reading @ Théatre de l'Odéon not far from St Germain des Pres and just in front of Jardin du Luxembourg.
There wasn't a lot of advertising so it wasn't full, it was packed downstairs but lots of empty seats on the sides at the balcony.
As you can see on the pics, it's one of the most beautiful theatre in Paris.

Lady Marianne read us Shakespeare's sonnets (around 20) with Vincent Segal on cello.
She was reading for 2-3 min with the translation on a huge screen in the back and then Vincent Segal played his cello for a couple of minutes.
It went on like this for 80 min.
It was interesting, Marianne's reading was faultless and her voice was perfect.
The cello was sounding amazing, it's one of my favorite Classical instruments .

I would have prefered that they left the translation on the screen while Vincent was playing cello:
If you were reading the text, you didn't focus on Marianne's reading and if you were only listening to her without reading the text, you couldn't understand the meaning of it, sorry we're French.
Cool gig

Reminder:
Marianne Faithfull @ Théatre du Chatelet on March 22 2011 (1st show) & on March 23 (second show) with Wayne Kramer.
@ Fnac Montparnasse on Feb 09 2011 for a Question & Answer.
@ Cité de la Musique on June 17 2009 (1st show) & June 18 2009 (second show)