Gloria!

A vivid reminder of the shock of Rocamadour, where he rediscovered his faith in 1936, the Gloria by Francis Poulenc, a composer who was "half-monk, half-voyou" as Claude Rostand put it, shines brightly, even if the more intimate pages are not absent. Poulenc was amused by the scandal caused by the second part of his great choral symphony:
"I simply thought while writing it of those frescoes by Gozzoli where angels stick out their tongues, and also of those brave Benedictines I once saw playing soccer". Symphony No. 40, on the other hand, did not cause a scandal, but became quite simply the most popular of Mozart's symphonies. Yet there is a sense of melancholy grace in many parts, of a beauty as mythical as it is unsurpassable.

Around the show 

Preamble visit
Visit to the Opéra Comédie by students in the Master's program "Valorisation et Médiation des Patrimoines" at the Université Paul-Valéry.
Free with online registration before the performance, reserved for those in possession of a ticket for the performance.
Subject to availability.