In the beginning, this Calypso was composed for a chamber opera that was:

Labyrinth Hotel (September 1989 – August 1990)  — 1′. 30

Chamber Opera. Texts of Colette Fellous

Based on the novel of Colette Fellous, Calypso, of a radiophonic work on this same novel and its author, of a series of songs on the body, the three authors (including the theater director) thus found the conception of a lyric object in which mix the song, the word, the noises of the world and the secrecies of intimacy, the whole called “chamber opera” since that occurs in a hotel room.

In consequence of a misunderstanding between the novelist, the director and the composer, this chamber opera cannot be represented any more. A new musical version exists, with the title «  Chansons pour le corps » (see 1994).

And, indeed, this Labyrinth Hotel did not meet again the scene since then.

June 5, 2007