Share

Fenêtre sur cour[s] : Opera in the library

Fenêtre sur Cour[s]

around Stéphane Fuget and Claire Lefilliâtre

+View more dates

Presentation

This workshop provides an opportunity for an ensemble of young singers and instrumentalists to explore the French cantata for several voices and symphony, and more particularly the Nuits de Sceaux, a masterpiece by Nicolas Bernier (1665-1734). Composed for the pleasures of the Duchess of Maine and published in the last years of the reign of Louis XIV (1714-1715), this collection subtitled Concerts de chambre ou Cantates françoises à plusieurs voix, en manière de divertissements meslez d’airs de violon et autres symphonies avec la basse continueThis work is a testimony to a practice of salons at the crossroads of dramatic genres (spoken theater and opera…) that should be questioned. What place should be reserved for the performer in a poetic-musical form such as the cantata, which combines theatricality, allegory and propriety? The artistic approach to this repertoire, entrusted to soprano Claire Leffiliâtre and harpsichordist and conductor Stéphane Fuget, is complemented by historical and musicological insights. This Fenêtre sur Cour[s] allows us to capture the fruit of this week-long work.


Les Fenêtres sur Cour[s]

Des rendez-vous toute l’année pour découvrir le travail en cours de musiciens et danseurs à l’issue d’une période de formation professionnelle ou d’artistes hébergés à l’abbaye le temps de préparer un spectacle
Gratuit, sur réservation

All dates

Friday, October 27, 2023

Practical information / Ticket office

By phone:
01 30 35 58 00