Saturday 30 January

Paris, Musée d'Orsay.

2:30pm: As a prelude to the Victor Hugo et Egaux Festival 2010, a walk in the steps of Victor Hugo: two actors and a lecturer evoke Victor Hugo by way of a selection of museum works and literary extracts. Presentation of lecture ticket also allows free entry to a performance of Répétitions mouvementées on 4 February (for more details on this event, consult that date).

2pm: Welcome by the director, Danielle Molinari, and guided tour by Alexandrine Achille of the exhibition Portrait d’une collection: une collection de portraits.

3:30pm: (In partnership with INA) Screening of Ruy Blas, TNP production, with Jean Deschamps, Gérard Philipe, Gaby Silvia, Daniel Sorano, and a discussion with the director, Jean Vilar (1954).

- Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. CentreCensier, 13 rue Santeuil, Paris 5^th (Métro: Censier-Daubenton). Room 49

7pm: Screening of Portrait-Souvenir de Victor Hugo by Gaëtan Picon; text read by Jean-Louis Barrault, directed by Jacques Demeure (47 min, 1961).

Followed by a discussion (which may also include as its subject Ruy Blas [3:30pm showing]) led by Arnaud Laster and with the participation of Delphine Aubin, Danièle Gasiglia. and Gérard Pouchain.

4pm: Hamlet, directed by Rodney Bennett as part of the BBC Shakespeare series (210 min, 1980), with Derek Jacobi and Claire Bloom. In English with French subtitles.

Followed by a discussion led by Arnaud Laster with the participation of Line Cottegnies.

7pm: Screening of Portrait-Souvenir de Shakespeare (1h 43 min, 1964) and discussion with the participation of Gisèle Venet.

6pm: Walk in the steps of Victor Hugo / two actors and a lecturer evoke Victor Hugo by way of a selection of museum works and literary extracts (registration on the premises; limited to thirty places). Presentation of museum entry ticket and/or lecture ticket also allows free entry to the performance of Répétitions mouvementées that will follow.

8pm: Répétitions mouvementées / Victor Hugo et ses acteurs, play by Danièle Gasiglia, directed by Jean-Paul Zennacker. With Virginie Kartner (Sarah Bernhardt), Yann Coeslier (Mounet-Sully), Jean-Paul Zennacker (Victor Hugo), Jérôme Keen (Paul Meurice and Emile Perrin, Febvre, Albert Lambert), Maryne Bertieaux (A Young Actress), Bénédicte Bianchin (Lise, A Doctor and Mariette), Aline Boone (Maria Favart),Sylvie Guichenuy (Julia Bartet). Assistant interns Mathilde Ramade et Aurélie Roland. Free entry upon presentation of a ticket forone of the January Hugolien events in the museum collections or a museum entry ticket for the day of the performance (rate: 7 euros; free for under-26s).

9:30am and 2:30pm: Répétitions mouvementées / Victor Hugo et ses acteurs, play by Danièle Gasiglia, directed by Jean-Paul Zennacker. With Virginie Kartner (Sarah Bernhardt), Yann Coeslier (Mounet-Sully), Jean-Paul Zennacker (Victor Hugo), Jérôme Keen (Paul Meurice and Emile Perrin, Febvre, Albert Lambert), Maryne Bertieaux (A Young Actress), Bénédicte Bianchin (Lise, A Doctor and Mariette), Aline Boone (Maria Favart), Sylvie Guichenuy (Julia Bartet). Assistant interns Mathilde Ramade et Aurélie Roland.

These performances are for pupils of secondary schools and for students accompanied by their teachers, and followed by adiscussion led by Arnaud Laster with the author, performers, the director, and Anne Penesco, biographer of Mounet-Sully. Informationand reservations on +33 (0) 1 53 63 04 50. Fax: +33 (0) 1 42 22 71 61.

8:30pm: Love's Labour’s Lost, play by Shakespeare, translated by Jean-Michel Déprats, directed by Gilles Bouillon.

3pm: Répétitions mouvementées / Victor Hugo et ses acteurs, play by Danièle Gasiglia, directed by Jean-Paul Zennacker. With Virginie Kartner (Sarah Bernhardt), Yann Coeslier (Mounet-Sully), Jean-Paul Zennacker (Victor Hugo), Jérôme Keen (Paul Meurice and Emile Perrin, Febvre, Albert Lambert), Maryne Bertieaux (A Young Actress), Bénédicte Bianchin (Lise, A Doctor and Mariette),Aline Boone (Maria Favart), Sylvie Guichenuy (Julia Bartet). Assistant interns Mathilde Ramade et Aurélie Roland. Priority given tothose who visit the musuem en famille, with one or two children (from 13 to 18 years). Free entry to the museum on this Sunday. Passes to be obtained at the till of the auditorium.

7pm: Macbeth, directed by Jack Gold as part of the BBC Shakespeare series (1983, 148 min). In English with French subtitles.

Créteil (Val-de-Marne), Cinéma La Lucarne, 100 rue Juliette-Savar (Métro: Créteil-Préfecture)

- 6:30pm: Le Château de l’araignée, film by Kurosawa after Macbeth (1957), with Toshiro Mifune. With French subtitles.

- 9pm: Hamlet goes business, film by Kaurismaki (1987). With French subtitles.

Screenings followed by a discussion led by Danièle Gasiglia and Arnaud Laster with the participation of Anne-Maris Cornède.

Rate: 7 euros for both films together, or usual rate for the Cinéma La Lucarne for one of the films.

7pm: Mille francs de récompense, directed by Hubert Gignoux (1h 57min, 1967) with André Pomarat.

Free entry. Followed by a discussion led by Danièle Gasiglia, with the participation of Florence Naugrette and Arnaud Laster.

Access from 6 rue des Petits-Champs or 2 rue Vivienne, Paris 2^nd arrondissement

3pm to 6pm: Hugo-Shakespeare Encounter: round-table conference with, among others, Christine Farenc, Florence Naugrette, Catherine Treilhou-Balaudé, Sylvie Vielledent, Stéphane Arthur, Arnaud Laster, and reading of Hugo texts on Shakespeare by Jean-Paul Zennacker (to be confirmed)

7pm: Les Travailleurs de la mer, adapted by Jean-Claude Carrière, directed by Edmond Séchan (2h 54min, 1986), with Aurélien Recoing (Gilliatt), Redjep Mitrovitsa (Ebenezer), Julien Guiomar (Mess Lethierry).

Followed by a discussion with the participation of Jean-Claude Carrière. Free entry.

Scientific advisors: Agnès Terrier (Opéra-Comique) and Alexandre Dratwicki (Palazzetto Bru-Zane Centre de musique romantique française).

10am to 1pm: Modernité et héritage (presentations by Brigitte François-Sappey, François Bernard and at 11:45am, by Marie-Gabrielle Soret – ‘Saint-Saëns, classique et moderne’)

2:30pm to 6:30pm: Le ‘genre instrumental expressif ’ (presentations by Nicolas Dufetel – ‘Dire la musique ou dire l'histoire? La place des citations littéraires dans la musique pour piano (éditée et inédite) de Franz Liszt’, by Pauline Girard, Malou Haine and Ignace de Keyser)

7pm: Marie Tudor, play by Hugo, mise-en-scène by Guy Vassal, directed by Claude Dagues (2h 29, 1975), with Nadine Alari, Pierre Arditi, Benoist Brione, Jean Davy.

Followed by a discussion led by Arnaud Laster with the participation of Didier Chiche.

10am to 1pm: La modernité dans la presse (presentations by Arnaud Laster and Lise Régnier – ‘La Esmeralda, music by Louise Bertin, libretto by Victor Hugo / La réception comme révélateur de la modernité de l’opéra’, by Guillaume Bordry and at 11:45am, by Emmanuel Reibel – ‘Qu’est-ce que la modernité musicale dans le Paris 1830? L’éclairage terminologique et esthétique de la presse’)

2:30 to 5:30pm: La modernité en question (presentations by Alban Ramaut – ‘La modernité au terme d’une carrière? Béatrice et Bénédict d’Hector Berlioz’, by Florence Naugrette – ‘Berlioz peintre de la vie moderne: humour et romanesque dans ses Mémoires’ and at 4:15pm by Jean-Pierre Bartoli – ‘Exotisme musical en France et modernité à l'époque de Berlioz’)

Méry-sur-Oise (Val-d’Oise), Château. Book Fair (2010 theme: ‘Parlez-moi d’amour’)

10:30am: Roméo et Juliette, directed by Alvin Rakoff as part of the BBC Shakespeare series (1978, 168 min) with John Gielgud (Chorus). In English with French subtitles.

7pm: Reading of Deux Trouvailles de Gallus, play by Hugo composed of a comedy and a drama, by Jérôme Keen (Gallus), Virginie Kartner (Lison - Zabeth), Yann Coeslier (George, Harou, le Duc de Créqui), Barbara Le Toux (Nella et Sillette), Manuel Guillot (Gunich, le Baron d’Holburg, Nantais et L’Abbé).

Followed by a discussion with the participation of Brigitte Buffard-Moret, Danièle Gasiglia, Arnaud Laster and Bernard Le Drezen.

7pm: Les grands rôles: Juliette (25 min) and Shakespeare et Peter Brook (51 min)

Followed by a discussion with the participation of Jean-Claude Carrière, Fabien Cavaillé and Céline Candiard. Freeentry.

8:45pm: Macbeth, directed by Declan Donnellan. In English with French subtitles.

- Le Théâtre du soleil répète Shakespeare (under the direction of Ariane Mnouchkine) (13 min)

Screenings followed by a discussion led by Arnaud Laster with the participation of Anne-Marie Cornède and Catherine Threilhou-Balaudé. Free entry.

Followed by a discussion led by CatherineThreilhou-Balaudé with the participation of Dominique Goy-Blanquet.

- Villequier (Seine-Maritime), Musée Victor-Hugo – Maison Vacquerie, quai Victor-Hugo (from Rouen, bus CNA – +33 (0) 2 35 56 78 31 – direction Canteleu / Duclair).

Third Victor Hugo Book Fair / signatures, discussions and encounters with the following authors (alphabetical order): Marva Barnett (Victor Hugo on Things that Matter, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2009), Florence Gentner (Album d’une vie / Victor Hugo, Chêne, October 2008), Hubert Haddad and Serge Kantorowicz (Le Chiffre et le Songe - à travers Hugo, L’Echo Hugo, n°8, 2008-2009), Karl Leich-Galland (responsible for the reprinting of La Esmeralda, libretto by Hugo, music by Louise Bertin, piano and voice score by Liszt, Musik-Edition Lucie Galland, 2009), Gérard Pouchain (Sur les pas de Victor Hugo en Normandie et dans les Iles anglo-normandes, Orep, 2010), Marieke Stein (presentation, notes, dossier of a new edition of Notre-Dame de Paris, GF, 2009).

Exhibition Victor Hugo raconté par la caricature (collection by Gérard Pouchain), until 14 March.

Third Victor Hugo Book Fair / signatures, discussions and encounters with the following authors (alphabetical order): Sylvie Aprile and Jean-Claude Caron (postface and preface of a new addition of Histoire d’un crime, Abeille, 2009), (see 20 February), Danièle Gasiglia and Arnaud Laster (codirection of Victor Hugo et Paul Meurice, allumeurs d’étoiles, Hors-série de L’Echo Hugo,Société des Amis de Victor Hugo, 2009), Florence Naugrette (coordination and presentation of Victor Hugo 7 / le théâtre et l'exil, Lettres modernes Minard, Caen, 2009), Jean-Marie Thomasseau (Mélodramatiques, Presses universitaires de Vincennes, 2009), Sylvie Vielledent (1830 aux théâtres, Honoré Champion, 2009).

7pm: A Midsummer’s Night Dream, directed by Elijah Moshinsky as part of the BBC Shakespeare series (1981, 112 min), with Helen Mirren (Titania). In English with French subtitles.

Followed by a discussion with the participation of Line Cottegnies and Jacqueline Razgonnikoff.

7pm: Mangeront-ils? directed by Bernard Jenny, with Catherine Sauvage (Zineb), Jean-Paul Tribout (Aïrolo),Christian Alers (Le Roi de Man), Laurence Blasco (Janet), Philippe Cheytion (Slada)filming directed by Gilles Combet (1985).

8pm: Béatrice et Bénédict, comic opera by Berlioz based on Much Ado About Nothing by Shakespeare, musical direction Emmanuel Krivine, mise-en-scène by Dan Jemmett, sets by Dick Bird, costumes by Sylvie Martin-Hyska, artistic collaboration Cécile Bon, lighting Arnaud Jung, with Christine Rice (Béatrice), Allan Clayton (Bénédict), Sandrine Piau (Héro), Elodie Méchain (Ursule), Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Claudio), Jérôme Varnier (Don Pedro), Michel Trempont (Somarone).

Seats at 15 and 40 euros; half-price for staff and students of the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle (from the ticket office of the Service culturel of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Centre Censier, bureau 18 bis).

8:30pm: The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell, by the Arts Florissants as part of the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, direction by William Christie, mise-en-scène by Adrian Noble, choreography by Francine Lancelot and Béatrice Massin, with Nancy Argenta, Lynne Dawson, Véronique Gens, Jean-Paul Fouchécour, Jérôme Corréas, Sandrine Piau. Directed by Yvan Gérault. INA Production, 1990 (174 min).

Rate: 8 euros (instead of 10) from the ticket office of the Service culturel of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Centre Censier, bureau 18 bis; 4 euros for under-26s.

Ciel bleu, ciel noir / Victor Hugo poétique et politique, recital composed by Arnaud Laster and performed by Jean-Paul Zennacker.

1pm: Recital of melodies by Gounod, Saint-Saëns, and Bizet by Isabelle Druet with piano accompaniment by Stéphane Jamin.

8:30pm: Jean Valjean, adaptation of Hugo’s Misérables by Gilles Magréau and Jean-Paul Zennacker. With Jean-Paul Zennacker (Jean Valjean), Jérôme Keen (Javert), Maryne Bertieaux (Fantine et Cosette), Philippe Millat-Carus (Myriel, Fauchelevent, Thénardier), Bénédicte Bianchin (Mme Thénardier), Yann Coeslier (Marius).

1pm: King Lear, directed by Jonathan Miller as part of the BBC Shakespeare series (1982, 180 min). In English with French subtitles.

Rate: 23 and 33 euros (instead of 26 and 37) from the ticket office of the Service culturel of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Centre Censier, bureau 18 bis; half-price for staff and students of the University.

3pm: King Lear by Kerchbron (1965, 3h 10min) with Michel Etcheverry, Silvia Monfort, Simon Eine, Claude Debord.

8:35pm: L’Homme qui Rit, film by Paul Leni (1928, restored version, French intertitles), with Conrad Veidt (Gwynplaine), Mary Philbin (Dea), Cesare Gravina (Ursus), Olga Baklanova (the duchess Josiane). Followed by a discussion (subject to confirmation).

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 15 avenue Montaigne, Paris 8^th (Métro: Alma-Marceau).

- 7:30pm: Falstaff by Verdi, Orchestre national de France and chœur du Théâtre des Champs-Elysées under the direction of Daniele Gatti, mise-en-scène Mario Martone, sets by Sergio Tramonti, costumes by Ursula Patzak, lighting by Pasquale Mari, with Anthony Michaels-Moore in the title role, Anna Caterina Antonacci (Alice Ford), Paolo Fanale (Fenton), Caitlin Hulcup (Meg Page), Amel Brahim-Djelloul (Nannetta), Francesco Ellero d’Artegna (Pistola), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Mrs Quickly), Jean-François Lapointe (Ford), Raul Gimenez (Dr Cajus), Patrizio Saudelli (Bardolfo).

Seats at 25 and 55 euros by the ticket office of the Service culturel of the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Centre Censier, bureau 18 bis; half-price for staff and students of the university.

2pm: Othello, directed by Jonathan Milleras part of the BBC Shakespeare series (1981, 203 min), with Anthony Hopkins in the title role, and Bob Hoskins (Iago). In English with French subtitles.

8pm: Shakespeare Songs, choral pieces by Vaughan-Williams, Burgan, Martin, Britten, Mathias, direction by Joël Suhubiette, with Corine Durous, piano.

8:30pm: Jean Valjean, adaptation of Hugo’s Misérables by Gilles Magréau and Jean-Paul Zennacker.

Les Travailleurs de la mer / L'exil, la rage, le rêve, based on the novel by Victor Hugo, adaptation and performance by Paul Fructus, directed by Daniel Briquet, with Patrick Fournier on the accordian, Jean-Louis Morell on the piano, lighting by Florence Pasquet, Compagnie Le Temps de Dire.

- Touring theatre in the Bourgogne region: 5 March at Is sur Tille, at 8:30pm; 9 March at Luzy at 8:30pm; 11 March at Louhans at 8pm; 13 March at Clénay at 8:30pm; 16 March at Auxonne at 8:30 pm; 19 March at Marey sur Tille at 8:30pm; 21 March at Pont de Pany at 5pm; 23 March at Chenôve at 8:30pm; 26 March at Mirebeau at 8:30pm; 28 March at Pernand Vergelesses at 5pm; two performances from 30 March to 3 April at Dijon, Théâtre du Parvis St Jean (check dates and times at the Théâtre du Parvis Saint-Jean: +33 (0) 3 80 30 12 12 or on the theatre website http://www.tdb-cdn.com).

8:30pm: Jean Valjean, adaptation of Hugo’s Misérables by Gilles Magréau and Jean-Paul Zennacker.

- Actualité de Victor Hugo, lecture by Arnaud Laster, Salle des Carmes (17 March, 5pm).

- Répétitions mouvementées / Victor Hugo et ses acteurs, play by Danièle Gasiglia, directed by Jean-Paul Zennacker. with Virginie Kartner (Sarah Bernhardt), Yann Coeslier (Mounet-Sully), Jean-Paul Zennacker (Victor Hugo), Jérôme Keen (Paul Meurice), Marine Bertieaux, Bénédicte Bianchin, Aline Boone, Sylvie Guichenuy. Followed by a discussion led by Arnaud Laster, with the author, the performers, and the director at the Théâtre de la Carrosserie Mesnier (18 March, 9pm).

- Victor Hugo et George Sand, lecture by Danièle Gasiglia and readings, Bibliothèque (19 March, 6pm).

- Jean Valjean, adaptation of Hugo’s Misérables by Gilles Magréau and Jean-Paul Zennacker. With Jean-Paul Zennacker (Jean Valjean), Jérôme Keen (Javert), Maryne Bertieaux (Fantine et Cosette), Philippe Millat-Carus (Myriel, Fauchelevent, Thénardier), Bénédicte Bianchin (Mme Thénardier), Yann Coeslier (Marius), Cité de l'Or (16 March, 2:30pm for schools; 20 March, 8:30pm general public).

- Ciel bleu, ciel noir, Hugo poems chosen by Arnaud Laster and recited by Jean-Paul Zennacker, Cité de l’Or (21 March, 5pm).

- Victor Hugo raconté par la caricature, exhibition of the collection of Gérard Pouchain, Bibliothèque municipale (from 16 March to 3 April).

To coordinate with the new production of Notre-Dame, opera by Franz Schmidt, musical direction by Fabio Luisi, staging by Günter Krämer, sets by Herbert Schäfer, with Camilla Nylund (Esmeralda), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Quasimodo), Markus Butter (Frollo), Robert Gambill (Phoebus), Oliver Ringelhahn (Gringoire), of which the first performance will take place the next day:

Round-table conference on lyric adaptations of Notre-Dame de Paris, including La Esmeralda (music by Louise Bertin, libretto by Victor Hugo) and the musical by Plamondon et Cocciante, with the participation of Danièle Gasiglia-Laster, Arnaud Laster, Marie-Pierre Rootering and those in charge of the production.

Jean Valjean by Jean-Paul Zennacker, and round-table conference on Victor Hugo.

In partnership with the Alliance Française Acif ‘Victor Hugo’ of Avellino and with the patronage of the Commune of the Province of Avellino and of the General Consulate of France in Naples.

Contact: Mme Wanda Cappa, director of the Alliance Française of Avellino: +39 0825 780753 or wandacappa@allianceav.it

Louise Bertin, compositrice de La Esmeralda, en collaboration avec Hugo, lecture by Arnaud Laster, followed by song extracts, notably by Georges Zaragoza.

8pm: Les Misérables, musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer, directed by Trevor Nunn and John Caird, new production.

8:45pm: Widor et Victor, recital of the melodies of Widor based on Hugo’s poems, by L’Oiseleur des Longchamps, accompanied by Juliette Regnaud, piano, supported by Laurent Hacquard (oboe) and Rémi Lerner (clarinet).

9pm: La Forêt mouillée, lyrical comedy by Fernando Albinarrate based on Victor Hugo's play (created in concert version), under the direction of the composer, with Anahi Scharovsky (soprano), Marta Blanco (mezzo-soprano), Antonel Boldan (tenor), Maria Victoria Gaeta (soprano), Julien Marine (contre-tenor), Gabriel Vacas (baritone), Jean-Paul Zennacker (narrator), the Chœur interuniversitaire of Paris. Orchestral ensemble. Assitant chief : Samuel Machado. In the first part, choral works inspired by Shakespeare and Hugo will be performed.

All shows and screenings will be followed or preceded by discussions which will bring together, so far as it is possible, those responsible for staging and direction, the performers of the chosen production, and Hugo or Shakespeare specialists.

Elisabeth Desmonts currently leads an educational work on Hugo directed at elementary schools of Aubervilliers. This work will be the object of a presentation in Méry-sur-Oise schools.

The Festival benefits from the support of the Société des Amis de Victor Hugo.

Most of the contacts for reservations aregiven in the programme but they can also be made from 21 January at the ticket office of the Cultural Service of the New Sorbonne University (Centre Censier, bureau 18 bis, 13 rue Santeuil, Paris 5^th, +33 (0) 1 45 87 41 90; opening times on the university website).

Enquiries by post to the Festival secretariat, 7 place Salvador-Allende, 94000 Créteil, or by telephone on +33 (0) 6 08 97 13 60 or by email to festival.hugo-egaux@laposte.net