1. Staged Opera
Only three works remain from Monteverdi's long career in opera. L'Incoronazione di Poppea is the last one, created in Venice in 1642. This opera brings us to the conquest of power by Nero’s mistress, Poppea, who foregoes no crime to reach her ends.
Anne-Catherine Gillet and her crystalline tone that belied the malice behind it, is one among a perfect cast directed by Stephen Langridge and conducted by Christophe Rousset, master of Monterverdi’s music.
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3. Concert version of opera - Oratorio
Love me and ask no questions
With Europe spiraling towards a massive war that would eventually devastate the continent, Béla Bartók gave voice to the general sense of anxiety and foreboding by starting work on his only opera in 1911. Bartók’s one-act opera features only two characters, baritone Matthias Goerne is the menacing Bluebeard, and soprano Michelle De Young is his initially unsuspecting new wife.
Not to be missed!
Beethoven composed Missa Solemnis for the enthronement of his great friend and pupil Archduke Rudolph. Beethoven was not a religious man but in his final years he did become deeply spiritual. This work is the most representative of that spirituality: from the heart – may it return to the heart. With four soloists and Vokalacademie Berlin choir, this short opera will be embodied by conductor Jérémie Rhorer.
Handel’s Alessandro is almost a comic opera despite having as its hero Alexander the Great. The plot centers on two women who love him and vie for his affection. He manages to keep them both enchanted until he chooses one at the opera’s close. Bejun Mehta sings the title role with a fine ability to portray Alessandro’s whimsy.
4. Orchestra
François-Frédéric Guy is a usual guest of the orchestra with which he has forged a real musical complicity. From his piano, he conducts and performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 12 K. 414 and last Dumont’s Piano Concerto creation. The concert will end with Mozart’s Haffner Symphony.
Antoine Tamesit playing on a Stradivarius, peforms and conducts a program dedicated to strings in every exciting way. You will hear Bach’s Choral vor Deinen Thron Tret ich hiermit, Hindemith’s Trauermusik, Britten’s Lachrymae op. 48, Brahms Quintet no. 2 op. 111 (for string orchestra) and finally Dowland last creation If My Complaints could Passions Move.
Andrea Marcon has concocted a program dedicated to Mozart and Schubert. The fine Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi is praised for his performances of Mozart’s pieces. He will delight you with Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 19 K. 459, Idomeneo’s opening. Schubert’s Symphony No. 5 D. 485 will complete the evening.
5. Vocal Recital
Emiliano Gonzalez Toro has been interpreting Seicento music, for more than 15 years alongside some of the greatest specialists of this music. His Ensemble I Gemelli originated as a formation with variable geometry or membership, specializing in vocal music of the 17th century.
This Dolce Tormento concert is featuring Philippe Jaroussky, Emöke Baráth and Anthea Pichanick performing Monteverdi, Carissimi, Cavalli, Sances, Frescobaldi and Rossi’s pieces.
TOUS EN CHŒUR !
Le grand concert des chorales lycéennes d’Ile-de-France*
Quand la nouvelle génération donne le LA !
Venez écouter les plus beaux airs du chant choral par les lycéens et lycéennes d’Ile-de-France, réunis à l’initiative de Radio Classique et de l’Orchestre national d’Ile-de-France pour un concert événement. « Tous en Chœur », c’est la transmission d’une passion dans un cadre d’excellence, avec un orchestre symphonique national, la prestigieuse Maîtrise Notre-Dame de Paris et le soutien d’une marraine d’exception, la soprano Patricia Petibon ! C’est aussi et surtout une soirée d’émotion et de plaisir partagé autour de chefs-d’œuvre des plus grands compositeurs, Mozart, Verdi, Fauré, Beethoven… Une véritable fête de la musique avant l’heure, avec le soutien de la Région Ile-de-France.
Suite à la décision gouvernementale d’interdire les rassemblements de plus de 1000 personnes, les réservations pour ce spectacle sont closes.
Philippe Jaroussky’s singing has been described as divine. His voice can reach jubilantly to incredible height. After successful forays into 19th century France, as well as Bach and Telemann, Jaroussky now returns to his roots together with his Ensemble Artaserse: Vivaldi, Haendel arias, which – with their fine melodic and deep emotionality – seem to have been made for him.
Just back from her performance at the MET in New York, Aleksandra Kurzak stops, for one concert, at the TCE. She dedicates it to the most beautiful opera arias of Verdi, Ponchielli, Massenet and Puccini, her favorite composers.
Prêts pour un festival d’émotions ? Après le succès de ses précédents concerts (Offenbach en fête, Viva Verdi, Sacré Rossini, Passionnément Mozart), Radio Classique vous donne rendez-vous pour une Folle Soirée de l’Opéra qui vous fera vivre toute la richesse des passions humaines, mises en musique par des compositeurs de génie et les artistes les plus talentueux de la scène actuelle.
6. Recital - Chamber Music
Simon Ghraichy is appreciated by peers for his irreproachable virtuosity and remarkable artistic taste, as well as by less experienced listeners for his uninhibited personality and charisma.
This time accompanied by the Saarländisches Staatsorchester, he will perform Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto The Egyptian and Liszt’s Hungarian Fantasy.
For more than 70 years, Pablo Casals Festival has presented its repertoire at The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. For this concert, this is to a Beethoven journey that we are invited - cello & piano Sonata, wind & piano Quartet and trio with piano.
Yundi, exact contemporain de Lang Lang est une icône en Chine, son pays natal. Il jouit également d’une large popularité en occident dû à son premier Prix au prestigieux concours Chopin de Varsovie où il en fut en 2000 le premier asiatique à être couronné. C'est donc tout naturellement qu'on le retrouvera, pour la 1ère fois au TCE, dans son répertoire de prédilection.
Considered a genius for his unique ability to combine an exceptional virtuosity with a deep and expressive musicality, Arcadi Volodos chooses his repertoire with great care. He designed a program made of Liszt and Schumann pieces.
Hammerklavier Sonata is surely the steepest challenge for any pianist and a pure joy for Fazil Say. About his own composition, Say had endeavored to express all the dramatic features of this magical legend of Troy through the language of music.
Piano aux Champs-Elysées
Nikolaï Lugansky is a pianist of extraordinary depth and versatility. He will explore the rich textural romantic tapestry of Beethoven Sonatas and Franck pieces.
Suite aux mesures gouvernementales, la représentation est annulée.
During his recitals, he always offers inspired performances. No doubt it will be so for this concert dedicated to Beethoven, Franck and Chopin.
Nemanja Radulovic takes us on a journey through different musical regions. From the Armenia of Khachaturian we travel to Rimsky-Korsakov’s fairy-tale Arabia before reaching the shores of the Black Sea with Aleksandar Sedlar and also to Tchaikovsky repertoire for violin and orchestra.
For this concert, the Franco-Serbian violinist is accompanied by some of his most long-standing musical friends and collaborators.
French pianist David Fray approaches music very seriously. His performances of works by Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven are musically refined and technically elegant, searching out the meditative qualities of the music.
Sunwook Kim's released few years ago Beethoven Sonatas in which he presented an impressive interpretation of Ludwig van Beethoven.
He became a subtle and accomplished Beethoven specialist, by staying close to the original score, yet offering a very personal interpretation. No doubt he will provide the same accomplishment for his recital.
8. Sunday Morning Concerts
A keyboard visionary
Acclaimed for his ‘brilliant yet clear-minded’ musicianship, Benjamin Grosvenor returns to the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, with a morning recital dedicated to Schumann, Janáček and Bellini/Liszt.
+ Special treat for children under 9, free ticket for them.
9. Variété
After the show “Lily Passion”, with which they toured in 1986, Gérard Depardieu extends his musical love story with Barbara. Accompanied on the piano by Gerard Daguerre who was Barbara’s Pianist for more than 15 years, Depardieu pays a sensitive tribute to his Barbara.