Tempête et passion au Festival Berlioz avec Marina Viotti

Marina Viotti, Christophe Rousset et Les Talens Lyriques

By Manon Decroix, 28 August 2023

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“ce concert aura transcendé les conditions climatiques pour une performance musicale captivante”

Reviewed at Château Louis XI, Cour, La Côte-Saint-André on 25 August 2023

Gluck, Orphée et Euridice: excerpts (arr. Berlioz)

Rossini, Semiramide: Overture

Rossini, Semirande: Bel raggio lusinghier...Dolce pensiero

Donizetti, La Favorite: Overture

Donizetti, La Favorite: L’ai-je bien entendu!

Berlioz, Les Troyens: Ah! Ah! Je vais mourir! … Adieu, fière cité

Massenet, Marie-Magdeleine (extrait)

Gounod, Sapho: Où suis-je?… Ô ma lyre immortelle

Les Talens Lyriques

Christophe Rousset, Conductor

Marina Viotti, Mezzo-soprano

Teenage Mozart’s Mitridate a great success at La Scala

Laura Servidei, 18th May

Christophe Rousset leads Les Talens Lyriques and a stellar cast in a superb rendition of Mozart’s first opera seria.

*****

A forgotten meta-opera at La Scala: Gassmann’s L’opera seria

Laura Servidei, 29th March

Christophe Rousset leads a great cast and an even greater orchestra in Gassmann’s 1769 rarity in Laurent Pelly’s visually striking, but oddly subdued, take on a comedy that thrives on chaos.

***11

Fine Bach cantatas from Paul Figuier at the Festival d’Ambronay

David Karlin, 4th October

Young countertenor Figuier gives an accomplished vocal performance, sometimes overpowered by the energy of Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques. Oboist Gilles Vanssons steals the show.

***11

Jephtha: Handel's last English oratorio at the Halle Handel Festival

Sandra Bowdler, 30th May

Handel's last English oratorio Jephtha is beautifully performed by Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques in Halle, although the drama is a bit slow off the mark.

***11

Not quite a premiere, not quite a success: Salieri’s Kublai Khan

Chanda VanderHart, 7th April

Martin G Berger exhaustively reworks the story and the libretto of Salieri's Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari and throws the kitchen sink at this new production, but not everything lands well.

***11

Unhappy ever after: Gluck's Armide returns to Paris

David Karlin, 11th November

Excellent performances and stage direction make a good case for an opera that's on the slow side dramatically.

****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.

Tempête et passion au Festival Berlioz, avec Marina Viotti et Les Talens Lyriques