Alasadair Kent

Mozart est magique, il se relève de tout ! Après bien des péripéties sanitaires, le danseur et chorégraphe Philippe Decouflé a accepté de s’emparer de ce programme musical. Il fait dialoguer chanteurs, clowns, danseurs et vidéo en direct lors de ce “Concert spectaculaire”. Insula orchestra et Laurence Equilbey y invitent la fine fleur du chant mozartien pour un voyage féérique autour des plus beaux airs de Mozart, dans un esprit de légèreté, d’amour, d’humour et de vitalité.

A decade before the French Revolution, in a country riven with bitter polemics, Gluck throws the history of opera into confusion by raising it to an unheard-of peak of tragic intensity. Experiencing his two Iphigenias in a single evening goes beyond the norms of operatic life: it is to enter the very heart of the curse on the family of King Atreus of Mycenae, to follow a logical destiny through a cycle of endless violence. How does the victim of Aulis become the murderess of Tauris? That is the burning question that Dmitri Tcherniakov must adress, plunging the spectator into the midst of a household haunted by the dead and setting in train an implacable process of dehumanization, with parallels to our world today. Conducting Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm drives this dual tragedy to the summit of its expressive power, leaving humanity to be translated through arias of the utmost poignancy.