In the more intimate setting of the Bastille Amphitheater, the musicians of the Paris National Opera Orchestra invite you to a chamber music program.
The musical world commemorates the centenary of Gabriel Fauré's death in 2024. This is an opportunity to associate the composer with the man who was his teacher at the École Niedermeyer – an establishment that trained choirmasters and organists –, Camille Saint-Saëns, and the woman who was his piano student in her childhood, Lili Boulanger.
A great exegete of Fauré's music, Jean-Michel Nectoux writes: "The flexibility, the beauty of the melodic inspiration, the shimmering of the harmony partly explain the fascination that Fauré's music exerts. [...] The musician is as close to Matisse as to Vermeer; his art is made of grandeur and refinement in the image of that of Marcel Proust who "became intoxicated" by this music, as he once wrote to Fauré." (in G. Fauré, Solfèges collection, Le Seuil, 1995).
