Sandrine Piau, reine de la nuit genevoise

By Thomas Muller, 18 March 2016

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“On aura pu apprécier le mot toujours ciselé, avec des aigus portés magistralement.”

Reviewed at Bâtiment des Forces Motrices, Geneva on 15 March 2016

Works by Mozart

Works by Rameau

Works by Rebel

Pelz, Climax pour orchestre dansant et danseur

Geneva Camerata

David Greilsammer, Conductor

Sandrine Piau, Soprano

Nicolas Cantillon, Dancer

Geneva Camerata: Balkan fire, tepid Baroque

Mark Pullinger, 19th May

In its Balkan-Baroque! programme, Geneva Camerata – inspired by clarinettist Gilad Harel – really found their groove in a variety of dances from the Balkan regions.

***11

Vivaldi revived at Sommets Musicaux

David Karlin, 31st January

Let's be brutally honest, concertgoers: Vivaldi's Four Seasons has been played to death - recorded by everybody who's anybody. It's been a wonderful old warhorse over the years, but it has been flogged once too often. Can it really be possible, then, to bring this animal back from the dead and rekindle our enthusiasm?

****1

Geneva Camerata: Balkan fire, tepid Baroque

Mark Pullinger, 19th May

In its Balkan-Baroque! programme, Geneva Camerata – inspired by clarinettist Gilad Harel – really found their groove in a variety of dances from the Balkan regions.

***11

Vivaldi revived at Sommets Musicaux

David Karlin, 31st January

****1

Opera seria brought to life by Zazzo and the Geneva Chamber Orchestra

David Karlin, 8th February

Question: how do you demonstrate to a sceptical audience that baroque opera seria doesn’t have to be boring? To answer this, the organisers of Sommets Musicaux and David Greilsammer, conductor of the Geneva Chamber Orchestra came up with a programme consisting of four Handel arias interspersed with orchestral passages from French baroque opera, these chosen for their variety and dance-based charac

****1

Complots russes à Genève avec le retour de Fedora

Stéphane Lelièvre, 17th December

Le rare opéra de Giordano, inégal mais intéressant, fait son retour dans l'institution genevoise avec un plateau vocal de grande qualité, emmené par le duo Roberto Alagna-Aleksandra Kurzak.

***11

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Thomas Muller

Podologue spécialisé en Education Thérapeutique du Patient et Diabétologie, chanteur, administrateur de choeur, fondateur d'orchestre et ancien hautboïste amateur, Thomas est passionné de musique et particulièrement vocale. Toujours sensible aux timbres des orchestres et de la capacité des musiciens de développer un chant musical qui provoque chez l'auditeur une émotion vraie, en dehors de tout intellectualisme.

Sandrine Piau, reine de la nuit genevoise au Bâtiment des Forces Motrices