MEDIATHEK

The First Murder is a commission from the Lille Opera House and Le Balcon orchestra.
 It was premiered in Lille in November 2016.
 It tells the story of a writer, Gabriel, desperate for inspiration and exiled, who is finally allowed back in the city, to write again.
 His wife is against that idea, thinking that they will, again, have to lose everything.
 During the journey, the writer falls in love with one of the actors working for him. Later, as they fight (the actor, Hyppolite, wants the writer to leave his wife and his work for him), the actor kills himself.
 In the shadows, the Other, a man from the past, sees everything.
 He will try to use it to take the writer's wife, Emma, for him.
 Around this story, two narrators try to influence the fate of each character, but the only interaction they can have with them is through Misery, Gabriel's servant. She is the only one who can see the narrators and talk to the characters.
 On stage, each one dressed as Gabriel, 12 instrumentalists play the role of the narrators' power.