For the first time, the Wonder Cabinet production Bethlehem will be in France with a performance in Paris on May 16th and another in Lyon as part of Nuits Sonores Festival on May 17th. 

The result of a collaboration created by Wonder Cabinet with Bethlehem choirmaster Lawrence Sammour, and Beirut-based musicians Sary Moussa and Abed Kobeissy, this electro-acoustic work weaves a link between sacred liturgical tradition and experimental electronic creation. 

Commissioned for Christmas 2023, at a moment when Bethlehem had cancelled all celebrations in response to the genocide in Palestine, the piece was broadcast on more than fifty radio stations around the world. 

Following its live premiere at the Le Guess Who? festival, the project now expands with the participation of Makram Aboul Hosn, in view of an album and a book to be released in 2026.

With the support of Lafayette Anticipations - Fondation Galeries Lafayette

Opening Act

8 PM

Charbel Haber

The show will open with a first act by Charbel Haber, a Lebanese musician, composer, and artist whose work explores memory, decay, and the unstable afterlives of sound in a region shaped by rupture and continuity. A central figure in Lebanon’s experimental and alternative music scenes since the late 1990s, he has developed a practice that moves across composition, improvisation, film, and performance, weaving together the intimate and the political, the archival and the speculative.

Main Act

9 PM

Bethlehem 

Lawrence Sammour, Abed Kobeissy, Sary Moussa, and Makram Aboul Hosn

The result of a collaboration created by Wonder Cabinet with Bethlehem choirmaster Lawrence Sammour, and Beirut-based musicians Sary Moussa and Abed Kobeissy, this electro-acoustic work weaves a link between sacred liturgical tradition and experimental electronic creation. 

Commissioned for Christmas 2023, at a moment when Bethlehem had cancelled all celebrations in response to the genocide in Palestine, the piece was broadcast on more than fifty radio stations around the world. 

Following its live premiere at the Le Guess Who? festival, the project now expands with the participation of Makram Aboul Hosn, in view of an album and a book to be released in 2026.