Renaud Capuçon opens the Aix Easter Festival with Cinéma

By Mark Valencia, 15 April 2019

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“an agreeable evening of cinematic fragments and offcuts”

Reviewed at Grand Théâtre de Provence, Aix-en-Provence on 13 April 2019

Works by Barry

Delerue, Film music from Le Mépris

Desplat, Film music from Twilight

Legrand, Film music from Yentl

Morricone, Film music from Cinema Paradiso

Morricone, Film music from The Mission

Mancini, Breakfast at Tiffany's: Moon River

Works by Rota

Williams, Film music from Schindler's List

Rombi, Joyeux Noël: Aria

Legrand, Film music from Summer of ’42

Jarre, Film music from Dead Poets Society

Cosma, Film music from La 7e Cible

Cosma, Film music from The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Horner, Film music from Legends of the Fall

Korngold, Film music from The Adventures of Robin Hood

Renaud Capuçon, Violin

Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon

Geoffrey Styles, Conductor

Billy Budd, or the Triumph of Beauty at the Opéra de Lyon

Stéphane Lelièvre, 21st March

The Opéra de Lyon presents Britten’s masterpiece for the first time: a triumph, both visually and musically, which is received with great enthusiasm by the audience.

****1

The devil rides a violin bow in Falstaff at Aix

Romain Daroles, 3rd July

A highly successful Falstaff at the Archevêché in Aix-en-Provence, for our greater pleasure: a true lesson in joy in a world where, we are told, all is but a joke.

*****

All that glitters: Barrie Kosky's Coq d'or opens in Lyon

Mark Pullinger, 20th May

Its premiere postponed from Festival d'Aix last summer, Barrie Kosky's staging of Rimsky-Korsakov's political satire finally takes place in Lyon.

*****

Seeing double: Bluebeard’s Castle at Opéra de Lyon

Zoltán Szabó, 26th March

A controversial new production of Bluebeard's Castle by Andriy Zholdak in which Bartók's opera is played out twice...

**111

La Cenerentola in Edinburgh: comic direction to savour

David Karlin, 24th August

Herheim pulls us in unexpected directions, makes us laugh and makes us think as we enjoy fine Rossinian music and singing in Opéra de Lyon's production.

****1

Marton turns Don Giovanni into a wrist-slashing wimp

Jonathan Sutherland, 25th June

A disappointing new production by David Marton at Opéra de Lyon.

**111

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Mark Valencia

Mark has worked in arts journalism for four decades, both as a writer and as a French-English translator. Nowadays he focuses his energies on reviewing opera and music. Mark also writes for Opera magazine and for Musical America as a correspondent for Europe and the UK.