Patrick Messina en star de Mozart au Festival de Toulouse

Patrick Messina

By Thibault d'Hauthuille, 11 July 2025

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“c’est un chant d’un lyrisme confondant de beauté, à chaque instant, qui nous emporte”

Reviewed at Théâtre de la Cité – Centre Dramatique National Toulouse Occitanie, Toulouse on 7 July 2025

Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K620: Overture

Mozart, Clarinet Concerto in A major, K622

Mozart, Requiem in D minor, K626

Orchestre du Printemps

Edwin Crossley-Mercer, Conductor

Patrick Messina, Clarinet

Cynthia Bak, Soprano

Géraldine Chauvet, Mezzo-soprano

Denzil Delaere, Tenor

Lysandre Chalon, Bass-baritone

Nota Bene

Delphine Armand, Choirmaster / chorus director

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

Les Indes galantes: with Alarcón, Rameau conquers the Bastille

Philippe Ramin, 28th September

The new production of Les Indes galantes at Opéra Bastille is exceptional, from the vocal cast to the choreography by Bintou Dembélé. But the stand-out performance of the evening comes from conductor Leonardo Garcia Alarcón.

*****

A mostly solemn Good Friday in Belfast

Leighton Jones, 19th April

Mozart’s early youthful 29th Symphony felt rather misplaced in this otherwise solemn concert from Rafael Payare, Ulster Orchestra and the Belfast Philharmonic Choir.

****1

Strongly cast Guillaume Tell hits its mark at Theater an der Wien

Chanda VanderHart, 16th October

Osborn absolutely lives the part; he negotiated formidable heights, intricate passage work and the sheer volume of notes with style and clarity as well as colour and nuance.

****1

Reality and fantasy in Orlando Paladino in Munich

Ako Imamura, 25th July

Axel Ranisch's production makes heavy use of film to tell a comic story of a medieval knight in love.

****1

Lully's Alceste a great success in Versailles

Laura Servidei, 10th December

Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques perform Alceste, the most recent effort in their almost complete set of Lully's operas. A strong cast and a remarkable chorus complete a successful performance.

****1

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Thibault d'Hauthuille

Partageant sa vie entre Toulouse où il exerce un métier d'accompagnement des institutions musicales (contribuant à structurer l’expérience du public, de la découverte à la fidélisation) et sa maison nichée dans les boucles du Lot où il héberge son Érard de 1898, Thibault écoute passionnément de la musique depuis plus de 40 ans. Amateur de beau son en haute fidélité, il cherche dans une quête sans fin à reproduire dans son salon la vérité sensible qu'il entend en concert.