After skimming the summer festivals, Clara Luciani is back indoors this time for long-format concerts. We were at the Parisian inauguration at the Gaîté Lyrique on October 11th.
Before the Cigale and the Olympia, the Gaîté Lyrique. A year ago, well before the release of her excellent album Sainte Victoire, Clara Luciani announced a small date at the Gaîté Lyrique. But the success of the album quickly made the concert sold out, leading to two new dates at La Cigale and Olympia in 2019. On October 11, we were present to inaugurate the first of these three Parisian dates, more and more grandiose. Seeing the magnificent setting of the Gaîté Lyrique, there is nothing to complain about. And it will be the same for Clara Luciani's concert.
In the grace that we know her, the singer delivered an impeccable and controlled show from A to Z, without superfluous effects. At 9pm, a recording starts and we could not have dreamed better: it is Sainte Victoire, the eponymous title spoken, making the atmosphere of the room more and more intense. This will be followed by a collection of 17 songs, performed in 1h05, watch in hand. Fast. Among them, the Frenchwoman will have time to play her entire album (from the moving "Drôle d'époque" to the magnificent and pictorial "Les Fleurs" before a grandiose finale and dancing to "La Baie" and "La Grenade"), some older rarities but also four new unreleased titles, in the same poetic and dancing fervor at the same time.
By calling herself "the happiest woman in the world" in front of a full Gaîté Lyrique for six months now, Clara Luciani even has the honor of offering herself two encores. The first to interpret a new title and a "The last time" of circumstance. Finally, the singer returns alone with her guitar. "It's a song I would have liked to write, I just translated it," she chants in total darkness. Everyone almost guessed it: it is his magnificent French translation of "Blue Jeans" by Lana Del Rey, the one that had contributed to his success at the time of the release of Sainte Victoire. A sublime moment, suspended in time, carried by the unique voice of the singer.
All that remains is to wait for the next two concerts at La Cigale – already sold out – on January 29, 2019 and at the Olympia on April 12, 2019.
