Organization

Festival Palazzetto Bru Zane à Paris

Conductor

Fabien Gabel

Singer

Soprano

Marie-Nicole Lemieux

soprano

Others

Orchestre de Chambre de Paris

Instrumentalist

Mélanie Laurent

Harp

Belle Époque Gala

Paris

France

Palazzetto Bru Zane

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Belle Époque Gala: Suite Bergamasque, L. 75 Debussy (+8 More)

Public

Private

Suite Bergamasque, L. 75

Dances for Harp and String Orchestra

Mélodies Persannes

Orientale, Op.22

Suite in the form of waltzes

Fantasietta

The Virgin

Expressions lyriques

Approved

The Belle Époque was artistically one of the richest periods in French history. In music, post-Romanticism, still marked by a feverish sentimentality, coexisted with Symbolism, of which Debussy was the figurehead, and with an undying passion for the colours and the sensuality of the Orient. This programme brings together all of those influences, without omitting either sacred inspiration or the enduring craze for instrumental virtuosity. Dubois’s Fantasietta is a curious example, a kind of late concerto grosso, whose miniaturism heralded the neo-Classicism that was to come. Alongside those purely instrumental pieces, Marie-Nicole Lemieux embraces, with all the warmth of her contralto, mélodies (art songs) with orchestral accompaniment by Saint-Saëns and Massenet that posterity has for all too long kept in the shadows.

English

Belle Époque Gala by Debussy, Saint-Saëns, La Tombelle, Bonis, Dubois, T., Massenet, From (2024/2024), Conductor Fabien Gabel, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France

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Program, About & Synopsis

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