Brunch concerts, Museum Night... Here are some upcoming cultural events in Menton

For this third Brunch Concert of the cultural season – orchestrated by the Municipal Conservatory of Music of Menton – the artists will invite the public on a journey through the Baroque repertoire, this Sunday, May 4 .

On the bill, Stéphanie Perrone and Marc Zorgniotti, both professors at the City Conservatory and top-flight violinists, will be the virtuoso performers of these scores composed for the violin by great Baroque masters, such as J.-M. Leclair, Telemann, and Bach. The concert will be followed by a brunch served on site, reconnecting with the convivial spirit of a musical morning to be enjoyed with family or music-loving friends.

Free concert by reservation, Sunday, May 4, at 11 a.m.

Brunch at 12 p.m.: €25/person (€15/child), in the Chambord lounge of the Palais de l'Europe . Offered by the Café du Parvis caterer. Reservations are required at the Tourist Office, but it is possible to make a last-minute decision and pay on site (in cash or by credit card).

"The Night of the Museums": a dance performance on the forecourt of the Cocteau Museum

For this new edition of the "European Night of Museums", which will take place on Saturday , May 17, from 9 p.m., the Nice company "Antipodes", founded in 1998 by Lisie Philip, invites the people of Menton to a dance, music and video performance, specially designed for the forecourt of the Jean Cocteau Museum (Francis-Palmero esplanade side).

The work of the choreographer – who has danced at the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, the Grand Théâtre de Genève and the Opernhaus de Zurich – is focused on choreographic and dramaturgical writing for and in public and atypical spaces, as well as on a search for different relationships with the spectator tending towards intimacy and sharing.

Her creations reach a wide audience, not just those initiated into dance, with dreamlike, offbeat worlds that are both poetic and sometimes scathing. It is a global reflection on the place of the artist and the dancing body in society.

The company is regularly invited to perform original works in public spaces throughout Europe and in museums. Performances will take place every twenty minutes on the forecourt: from 9:15 p.m. to 9:35 p.m., 9:55 p.m. to 10:15 p.m., 10:35 p.m. to 10:55 p.m., and 11:15 p.m. to 11:35 p.m.

Free access, from 9 p.m.

Two last meetings in June

The final brunch concert of the season will take place on Sunday, June 1st (11 a.m.), and will focus on "The Great Themes of International Pop" (with pieces played by Michael Jackson, The Beatles, Coldplay, etc.).

On the theater side, the cultural season will close in style on Tuesday, June 3 (8 p.m.), with a play crowned with several Molières "Dead Poets Society", an adaptation by Gérald Sibleyras, based on the legendary film by Tom Schulman. Starring, notably, Stéphane Freiss and Ethan Oliel, Molière for Male Revelation 2024... (We will come back to this) .