Nadia et Lili Boulanger, une disparition de Maleine

“I must finish everything before January 1^st, I must!! Will I be able to?” Lili Boulanger wrote in her diary at the end of 1917. What would become of La Princesse Maleine? The composer died at twenty-four before completing this opera, an adaptation of a play by Maurice Maeterlinck, whose score has never been found. Around Maleine unfolds a mystery of appearances and disappearances. Having become a conductor and teacher, her sister Nadia Boulanger made it her mission to keep Lili’s work alive and to pass on to future generations their desire to change the world.