On Thursday November 7 and Friday November 8, 2019 at 8:30 p.m., the blues and golds of the Salle Poirel in Nancy will vibrate with the blue-white-red notes of four of our greatest composers: Berlioz, Saint-Saëns, Connesson and Roussel.
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This is the 2nd wave of the lyrical season of the orchestra of the Opéra national de Lorraine. On Thursday November 7 and Friday November 8, 2019, the OONL and its musical director Jean-Marie Zeitouni will honor the time of “A French evening“, four French composers on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the death of Hector Berlioz.
At the invitation of the Opéra national de Lorraine, some fifty spectators were able to attend free of charge, on Tuesday November 5, some of the baton taps given by Jean-Marie Zeitouni in the direction of the musicians of the orchestra of the opera, to which was added the Nancy pianist Romain Descharmes.
A taste of the program which will be played Thursday and Friday at the salle Poirel.
French variations
Honor to Berlioz, on the occasion of the anniversary of his death, with the overture to his opera “The Free Judges“. An opera whose scores were destroyed by Berlioz himself and of which only the overture has come down to us in its entirety. Commissioned by the Théâtre de l’Odéon in 1826, the opera could never be premiered because the theater had not obtained the license from the government to create a French opera…
The “Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor” by Camille Saint-Saëns will then be performed. A work created in 1875 in Paris, eleven years before “The Carnival of the Animals”.
After this work from the end of the 19th century, the orchestra will offer spectators a great leap in time with the concerto “The Shining One” by composer Guillaume Connesson written in 2009. A work inspired by the science fiction novel by Abraham Merritt, “Le Gouffre de la lune”. Little known to the general French public, this composer is nevertheless played by the greatest American orchestras and English.
This French evening will end with Symphony No. 3 in G minor, opus 42, by Albert Roussel. A symphony commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and created in this city in 1930. Piano lovers will note in their diary that the soloist Romain Descharmes will give a master class on Friday November 8, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Auditorium of the Greater Nancy Regional Conservatory.
Free admission, limited seating available.
