INTERVIEW
It is the first major music program to return live to television since containment. Thursday evening, Le Grand Échiquier , a cult program from the 1970s and 1980s relaunched in 2018, will be broadcast on France 2 at 9 p.m. "It's the return of the live performance live and we are really proud to be able to do it", enthuses on the microphone of "L'Équipée sauvage" this Wednesday Anne-Sophie Lapix, in charge of the presentation of the show .
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Masks in all circumstances, except in front of the cameras
Coronavirus obliges, this new issue of the Grand chessboard will be done under very specific sanitary conditions. "It is a crazy organization: there are only half of the people in control, arrowed paths to go on stage and we will wear masks that will be removed only for the antenna" details the journalist.
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A musical chair system for guests
And the physical distance does not stop in front of the cameras, far from it. Of the dozen or so guests expected, including countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and singers Selah Sue and Christine and the Queens, only four will be present "almost permanently" on set: "Violinist Renaud Capuçon, soprano Patricia Petibon, the star dancer Dorothée Gilbert and the Academician Erik Orsenna ", explains Anne-Sophie Lapix. The others will have to share a sixth chair which "will be disinfected as soon as one guest leaves his place to another".
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A "coronacompatible" orchestra
For its part, the heart of the program, the music, also had to adapt to health measures. The orchestra that accompanies the artists' performances will thus only be made up of "stringed instruments". "It is complicated with those with wind, because one projects air. A musician could thus transmit the virus if it is contaminated", details that which is also presenter of the JT of France 2. But as often there are exceptions to the rules, a trumpeter will be present on the set to play the "solo of the credits of the show. But he will be a little isolated from the others."