Ragtime, paso doble, Bach-like chorales, klezmer music… This diverse range of influences serves a Faustian-inspired plot: a soldier sells his soul to the devil in exchange for a book capable of predicting the future. A universal tale, inspired by the Russian author Afanasyev, which ends in hell for the soldier.

Julien Masmondet and Les Apaches d'aujourd'hui have decided to pay homage to their predecessors by reviving this play alongside Éric Génovèse of the Comédie-Française, in a concert version for a single narrator who embodies the narrator, the soldier and the devil, accompanied by seven soloists.

To introduce The Soldier's Tale, an original creation for percussion and electronics commissioned from Othman Louati, the listener is immediately immersed in the world of rhythm which, in the form of a march, becomes like a second heartbeat punctuating all the scenes and accompanying us step by step until the last measure of the work.