Karine Deshayes & Ensemble Contraste by Various, za. 07 mei 2022, Van (2022/2022), Dirigent Johan Farjot, La Monnaie, Brussel, België

During the 2017-18 season, mezzo-soprano Karine Deshayes performed on our stage both in Poulenc en Mère Marie's Dialogues des Carmélites and in a recital program . In 2022, she renewed the performance by playing Valentine in Les Huguenots by Meyerbeer while offering the public a more intimate evening, devoted to French melody. Accompanied by the musicians of the Ensemble Contraste - with which she recorded this program - the singer pays tribute to the constitutive melodies of French romanticism, resulting from the prolific vitality of the Parisian salons attended by Hector Berlioz, Charles Gounod, Camille Saint-Saëns or again Gabriel Fauré. In addition to these vocal pieces, musical interludes will highlight some of the most characteristic pages of this turn of the century. Works by JULES MASSENET, GABRIEL FAURÉ, CHARLES GOUNOD, CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS, REYNALDO HAHN, BENJAMIN GODARD