Un air d'Italie by Mozart, Puccini, Wolf, Debussy, od (2023/2023), Opéra national du Rhin, Strasburg, Francja

Mozart was a young man of sixteen when he wrote his six so-called “Milanese” quartets during one of his trips to Italy. The third is a pleasant and fresh entertainment, whose writing already masters the codes. One hundred years later Italy shines particularly on the opera scene. Rare are the composers to be interested in the quartet. Yet Puccini composes, in just one night, the quartet " Crisantemi " struck with melancholy. At the same time, the Germanic Hugo Wolf, too, completed in two days an Italian Serenadeplayful and seductive, which became his most popular instrumental work. Shortly after in France, Debussy's only quartet, a vast piece bathed in a colorful impressionism, broke with tradition to follow new musical paths.