Name: Festival Berlioz
Start: 2021-08-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-08-30T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Château Louis XI

Organization

Dirigent

John Eliot Gardiner

Zanger

Soprano

Jessica Cale

Sam Cobb

Mezzo-soprano

Léa Desandre

Mezzosoprano

Cyrille Dubois

Tenor

Lionel Lhote

Rebecca Lea

Fairy

Titania

Hermia

Alexander Knox

Lysander

Puck

Oscar Batterham

Theseus

Oberon

Orchestra

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Others

Monteverdi Choir

Festival Berlioz

La Côte-Saint-André

Frankrijk

Château Louis XI

Festival Berlioz: Les nuits d'été Berlioz (+1 More)

Public

Les nuits d’été (Summer Nights) Op.7 H.81

Een Midzomernachtdroom

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Acteur

Broadcasting

Choreograaf

Chorus Director

Componist

Danser

Dramaturg

Extra

Geluidsontwerper

Haar stylist

Illustrator

Koor

Koor meester

Kostuum ontwerper

Librettist

Licht ontwerper

Orchestra Operations

Orkest

Other

Photographer

Poet

Regisseur

Répétiteur

Set designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Uitvoerend producent

Vertaler

Video ontwerper

Visagist

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Baritone

Contralto

Bass-baritone

Countertenor

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

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

Festival Berlioz by Berlioz, Mendelssohn, Van (2021/2021), Dirigent John Eliot Gardiner, Château Louis XI, La Côte-Saint-André, Frankrijk

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