The 20th of July will mark the great return of the internationally renowned Quebec composer Gabriel Thibaudeau in his native soil.
The performance of Gabriel Thibaudeau’s original score for the film The Man Who Laughs will be interpreted live by a 9-piece orchestra under the direction of the composer and featuring the Quatuor Molinari. The post-expressionist and romantic musical gem has been performed in concert across the globe for nearly 20 years now; from Paris to Sao Paulo, from New York to Tokyo.
« For The Man Who Laughs, I wanted music that was both romantic and current. Inspired by themes from Chopin, Stravinski, and Prokofiev, I wanted to showcase each instrument of the orchestra. But above all else, I wanted to breathe new musical life into the cinematic masterpiece that is The Man Who Laughs. » - Gabriel Thibaudeau
The virtuoso has just returned from a successful European tour, where he presented film concerts for The Phantom of the Opera and Carmen. The tour stopped in places such as the Midnight Sun Film Festival, in Sodankylä, Finland, and at the FlamencoFestival, in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg.
A FILM BY PAUL LENI (1928) After Metropolis and The Phantom of the Opera, Gabriel Thibaudeau and Fantasia are teaming up once again and are happy to announce the presentation of a unique cinematographic concert of The Man Who Laughs; an American film inspired by Victor Hugo's novel L'Homme qui rit, produced in 1928 by the German Impressionist film maker Paul Leni.
In 1690's England, King James II sentences his political enemy, Lord Clancharlie, to death in an iron maiden. Clancharlie's son, Gwynplaine, is disfigured with a permanent grin by comprachico Dr. Hardquannone, so that he will "laugh forever at his fool of a father". When the comprachicos are exiled, Gwynplaine is deserted. He discovers a blind baby girl, Dea, who has also been abandoned. Together, they are taken in by the mountebank Ursus. Years later, a now-adult Gwynplaine has become The Laughing Man, the freak show star of a traveling carnival. Now attached to the court of Queen Anne, he discovers records that reveal Gwynplaine's lineage and rightful inheritance.
Thibaudeau is thrilled to be returning to the Fantasia International Film Festival, which Quentin Tarantino qualified as « the most important and prestigious film festival of its genre on the continent ».
Cinematographic Concert: The Man Who Laughs July 20th at 8pm Concordia University's DB CLARKE Theatre 1455 boul. de Maisonneuve West Ticket: Admission
About Gabriel Thibaudeau Gabriel Thibaudeau has been a pianist for Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, appointed pianist at La Cinémathèque Québécoise for the last 25 years and the composer in residence with L'Octuor de France for more than 15 years. Thibaudeau's work includes music for ballets, the opera, chamber music and several orchestral compositions for silent films. His works are performed in the Americas, as well as in Europe and Asia. Several international institutions have commissioned work from Mr. Thibaudeau, among them: Le Musée du Louvre in Paris, the Cineteca di Bologna, Le Festival de Cannes, the National Gallery in Washington, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens and the Montreal Symphony Orchestra.

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