Event listing: Les Siècles | Usher Hall | Event is in the past

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Usher Hall Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 2EA, United Kingdom

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Festival: Edinburgh International Festival

Programme

Boulanger, Lili (1893-1918)	Faust et Hélène
Stravinsky, Igor (1882-1971)	Le Sacre du printemps (The Rite of Spring)

Performers

Véronique Gens	Soprano
Julien Behr	Tenor
Jean-Sébastien Bou	Baritone
Les Siècles
François-Xavier Roth	Conductor

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Performing Rites: how Stravinsky’s Sacre du printemps still shocks

Mark Pullinger, 29th March

Over a century after its premiere, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring still has the power to shock. Vasily Petrenko offers insights, while Tamara Rojo reflects on one of the most powerful choreographies, the version by Pina Bausch.

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Paris 1913 brought to life by Les Siècles and François-Xavier Roth

David Smythe, 17th August

Two works premiered in Paris in 1913 – Lili Boulanger's Faust et Hélène and Stravinsky The Rite of Spring – excite the Edinburgh International Festival audience... but spark no riots.

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