Anne Tournié and Chris Mouron share how their beloved childhood book became the inspiration of their latest collaboration.
. “I first experienced it though a recording with the French actor Gerard Philipe who played the aviator and fantastic Georges Poujouly who was the Little Prince,” says Mouron. “I heard all these beautiful voices from great actors and was suddenly transported to another land. I was in tears, filled with emotion.”
Mouron thinks back to the quote, “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” Those words continue to stay with her. “We are all human,” she adds. “And I hope that people have the same emotion that I had experiencing the book when I was twelve-years-old. This was a new world opening to me—the world of poetry. When you are a child and teenager, you think nobody understands you. And here suddenly somebody understood me.
"I really hope that people go away with a better feeling in their hearts than when they came in and that the show transports them to a different world view that things can be better,” adds composer Truck."We can make things better.”creator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry who passed away before his novella would be a global sensation, touching legions of people around the world. “I would like to to say, ‘thank you.’” shares Tournié.