Name: Mendelssohn & Berlioz: Nuits d’été
Start: 2021-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-08-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Château Louis XI

Organization

Festival Berlioz

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Singer

Soprano

Jessica Cale

Sam Cobb

Mezzo-soprano

Léa Desandre

Mezzosoprano

Tenor

Lionel Lhote

Actor

Rebecca Lee

Alexander Knox

Oscar Batterham

Orchestra

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Others

Monteverdi Choir

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras

Mendelssohn & Berlioz: Nuits d’été

La Côte-Saint-André

France

Château Louis XI

Mendelssohn & Berlioz: Nuits d’été: Les nuits d'été (+1 More)

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Private

Summer Nights

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

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Cellist

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Contrabassist

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Flutist

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Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

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Oboist

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Pianist

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Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

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Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

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Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

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Video designer

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Writer

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Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Baritone

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

​​In August 2021, the Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and John Eliot Gardiner travelled to La Côte-Saint-André to perform at the annual Festival Berlioz.

Programme:

Berlioz Les nuits d’été, Op. 7
Mendelssohn Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 21
Mendelssohn A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Incidental music, Op. 61

The six pieces which make up Les nuits d’été reveal Berlioz’s refined melodic gift, conveying faithfully the intimate atmosphere of the poems of Théophile Gautier, with their themes of fragile, easily lost love, of death and its phantoms, and of voyages without return. The cycle will be performed in Berlioz’s original orchestrated version, with three different voices sharing the songs.

The second part of the programme unites Berlioz’s great friend Mendelssohn with one of the Frenchman’s cultural idols: ‘Shakespeare, falling thus unexpectedly upon me… astounded me. His lightning, in opening to me the firmament of art with a sublime thunderclap, illuminated the most distant depths. I recognized true grandeur, true beauty, dramatic truth’ (Mémoires, Chapter XVIII). Mendelssohn also held the Elizabethan playwright in devout admiration. He was a young man of 17 when he composed the overture to A midsummer night’s dream, to which he added a sequence of incidental music in 1843 at the request of King Frederick William IV of Prussia.

Berlioz heard Mendelssohn’s complete music for A midsummer night’s dream for the first time in 1846 and could not hold back his praise in a letter: ‘Allow me to say that I heard in Breslau your Midsummer Night’s Dream and that I have never heard anything so profoundly Shakespearean as your music; on coming out of the theatre I would willingly have given up three years of my life to be able to embrace you.’

English

Mendelssohn & Berlioz: Nuits d’été by Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Frá (2021/2021), Hljómsveitarstjóri John Eliot Gardiner, Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André, France

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