La Monnaie fait entendre un Parsifal proche de la perfection à Bozar

Alain Altinoglu dirige Parsifal à Bozar

By Patrice Lieberman, 20 May 2022

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“Alain Altinoglu peut compter sur la complicité inconditionnelle d’un orchestre en excellente forme”

Reviewed at BOZAR: Main hall, Brussels on 19 May 2022

Wagner, Parsifal

La Monnaie | De Munt

Alain Altinoglu, Conductor

La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

La Monnaie Chorus

Werner Van Mechelen, Amfortas

Franz-Josef Selig, Gurnemanz

Julian Hubbard, Parsifal

Shenyang, Klingsor

Elena Pankratova, Kundry

Konstantin Gorny, Titurel

Iris van Wijnen, A voice from on high, Third Flowermaiden / Second Group

Willem Van der Heyden, First knight of the Grail

Scott Wilde, Second knight of the Grail

Hendrickje van Kerckhove, First Flowermaiden / First Group

Lisa Willems, Second Flowermaiden / First Group

Angélique Noldus, Third Flowermaiden / First Group

Sheva Tehoval, First Flowermaiden / Second Group

Lies Vandeweghe, Second Flowermaiden / Second Group

Johannes Knecht, Choirmaster / chorus director

La Monnaie Children's and Youth Choirs

La Monnaie Choral Academy

Benoît Giaux, Choirmaster / chorus director

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Patrice Lieberman

Pratiquant le piano (puis l’alto) dès l’enfance, Patrice Lieberman - après un passage par le Conservatoire d’Anvers - combine sa passion pour la musique, les langues et la littérature en étudiant la musicologie et la philologie slave à l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, avant de se perfectionner aux universités de Pennsylvanie et Yale. Après avoir été pendant près de vingt ans critique au défunt hebdomadaire anglophone bruxellois The Bulletin, il collabore depuis 2014 à Crescendo Magazine (crescendo-magazine.be). Il a également régulièrement signé des notes de programme et des traductions pour différentes organisations culturelles, dont le Festival de Flandre et l’Orchestre national de Belgique.