Dessay à Menton, une ouverture aux airs de réunion de famille

Natalie Dessay, Laurent Naouri, Neïma Naouri

By Manon Decroix, 30 July 2022

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“un subtil métissage entre les techniques propres au chant lyrique et celles issues de la variété”

Reviewed at Parvis Saint-Michel, Menton on 29 July 2022

Bernstein, West Side Story: Overture

Bernstein, West Side Story: Somewhere

Bernstein, West Side Story: Something's Coming

Bernstein, West Side Story: I Feel Pretty

Bernstein, West Side Story: Tonight

Coleman, City of Angels: What you don’t know about women?

Lane, On a Clear Day

Sondheim, On the Steps of the Palace

Sondheim, Send in the Clowns

Legrand, Yentl: Papa can you hear me?

Legrand, Yentl: A Piece of Sky

Legrand, Between yesterday and tomorrow: Mother and Child Duo

Legrand, Between yesterday and tomorrow: Between yesterday and tomorrow

Styne, Funny Girl: Don't Rain on My Parade

Styne, Funny Girl: People

Gershwin, Girl Crazy: I Got Rhythm

Kellaway, A place that you want to call home

Loesser, Guys and Dolls: Luck be a lady

Natalie Dessay, Soprano

Laurent Naouri, Baritone

Neïma Naouri, Soprano

Yvan Cassar, Piano

Benoit Dunoyer de Segonzac, Double Bass

Sylvain Gontard, Trumpet

Nicolas Montazaud, Percussion

Three meditations on death and mourning with the RSNO in Edinburgh

Simon Thompson, 25th April

Mozart's Requiem packs in the crowd, but it's Berg's Violin Concerto with Carolin Widmann that really finds the spiritual depth.

****1

Waiting for Kurtág: Fin de partie receives Berlin premiere

Elena Luporini, 12th January

Director Johannes Erath and conductor Alexander Soddy bring György Kurtág's first and only opera to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, starting the year with a dash of Beckett.

****1

Mass appeal: Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites revived at the Met

Cameron Kelsall, 15th January

John Dexter's production, now among the longest-serving in the company's repertory, remains a marvel of simple, effective storytelling.

****1

Operetta with teeth: Offenbach’s La Périchole at the TCE

David Karlin, 13th November

Laurent Pelly’s new production combines froth and hilarity with a dark, satirical heart; Marc Minkowski and the orchestra seduce us.

****1

Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette in Manchester

Rohan Shotton, 5th October

Ludovic Morlot conducts Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with The Hallé.

***11

Waterworld: firm musical foundations in Pelléas et Mélisande

Hugo Shirley, 31st May

Marco Arturo Marelli's 2012 production lacks mystery but puts a fine Golaud centre stage, while Esa-Pekka Salonen ensures superior musical values in the pit.

****1

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Manon Decroix

Titulaire d'un master de musicologie (Université Nice Côte d’Azur), Manon mène des recherches dans le but d’améliorer la compréhension du poème symphonique romantique. Altiste et professeur d’éducation musicale, elle participe à de nombreux projets de recherche, radiophoniques et pédagogiques en France et à Monaco. Elle se passionne pour les interprétations historiquement informées.

Natalie Dessay à Menton, une ouverture aux airs de réunion de famille