A concert with Gérard Depardieu and Gérard Daguerre at the piano
Gérard Depardieu sings? Yes, and not just since yesterday. The 75-year-old French international star recorded an album entitled "Comédien comédien" back in 1980. In 1986, Depardieu also starred in the musical "LilyPassion" - alongside singer Monique Andrée Serf, alias Barbara. Depardieu is a great interpreter of Barbara's chansons. Depardieu adored the "Dame en noir", as she was called because of her always dark clothes. He often said this, and you can hear it in his interpretations.
Together with Charles Aznavour's long-time musical director, pianist Gérard Daguerre, who accompanied Barbara musically for 17 years, the two of them give the almost forgotten songs and their creator a new lease of life and fame. Depardieu is expressive and dramatic. And when the song calls for it, he breathes and whispers. Then he becomes poetic, allowing love, disappointment, pain and death to flow into the chansons with great intensity and dedication. 14 of her best-known songs fill the album, including "L'Aigle noir", "Une petite cantate", "Drouot"Le soleil noir" and of course "Göttingen", the anthem of Franco-German reconciliation.
