Laurence Kilsby
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Jean-Philippe Rameau: Samson (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence)
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-07-12
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Samson
Overview: When, in 1733, Voltaire, the most brilliant mind of his day, collaborates with Rameau, its greatest composer, in undertaking an ambitious reform of operatic practice, the result is the biblical opera Samson. But the libretto is condemned and the score lost – possibly reworked here and there in later compositions. Claus Guth and Raphaël Pichon, haunted by this interesting project that had turned into one of the most intriguing failures in operatic history, have tried, not to recreate the letter, but to revive the spirit: to marry a strong, noble libretto with the most eloquent music. Supporting Jarrett Ott, Jacquelyn Stucker and Lea Desandre in the principal roles, the Pygmalion chorus and orchestra become important actors in a fresco that is both sublime and astonishingly modern.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-06
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Requiem de Mozart, Palau de la Música Catalana
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-10-19
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Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Overview: A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in 1737 at the Académie royale and inspired by the mythological episode of the Gemini. Rarely performed in its original version – the score was reworked by Rameau himself in 1754 –, this daring work plays on contrasts and expressiveness, as in the famous “Tristes apprêts”. The aria is sung by Télaïre mourning the death of her fiancé Castor, killed in battle, before his twin brother Pollux descends into the Underworld to ask his father, Jupiter, to bring him back to life. While this opera celebrates brotherly love, its prologue poses an essential question for director Peter Sellars: how do you stop a war and its attendant hatred and resentment?
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-20
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Bach's Sacred Music Nativity | Passion | Resurrection
Overview: Raphaël Pichon and his Ensemble Pygmalion resonate with the humanity, hope and light that permeate Johann Sebastian Bach's most beautiful sacred scores. A concert full of emotion.
Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2022-04-21
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In Search of Bach I. Welt, Gute Nacht
Overview: Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion Ensemble in concert in Arnstadt's Oberkirche, Johann Sebastian Bach's ancestral church.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-04-14
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