Name: Pauline Viardot
Start: 2021-03-08T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-03-08T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Palazzetto Bru Zane

Organization

Mezzo-soprano

Aude Extrémo

Mezzo-Soprano

Piano

Etienne Manchon

Palazzetto Bru Zane

Pauline Viardot

Venise

Italie

Aude Extrémo, mezzo-soprano
Étienne Manchon, piano

Concert programme
Pauline VIARDOT: Mélodies (various works)
Jules MASSENET: Marie-Magdeleine – Air de Meryem, “Ô mes sœurs”
Christoph Willibald GLUCK: Orphée et Eurydice – Air d’Orphée, “J’ai perdu mon Eurydice”
Giacomo MEYERBEER: Le Prophète – Air de Fidès, "Ah ! mon fils”
Camille SAINT-SAËNS: Samson et Dalila – Air de Dalila, "Mon cœur s’ouvre à ta voix”

Few female figures were as important as Pauline Viardot in Romantic France: she was not only the most prominent mezzo-soprano (premiering works by Meyerbeer, Saint-Saëns and Gounod), but also a prolific, demanding composer in her own right. Like most women composers of her time, she had to confine herself mainly to the mélodie. But the variety of poems she set, the richness of her inspiration and her obvious technical mastery of the voice balanced the narrowness of the genre, rivalling, at times, the ambitions of opera. Too rarely performed today, Pauline Viardot’s works open up to all the experiences of the Romantic mélodie: neo-Baroque, European folklore, exoticism, and popular regionalism.

Pauline Viardot: Recital Various

Public

Récital

Valide

Brochure de la production

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