Pelléas etc.

Paris Chamber Orchestra

January 28, 2024 - 17:00

Concert hall - Cité de la musique

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Distribution

Simone Menezes, direction

Laurent Naouri, baritone

Albert Kuchinski, Cello (in partnership with CNSMDP)

Thierry Thieû Niang, mise en mouvement

Jimmy Boury, lighting

Paris Chamber Orchestra

Programme

Sibelius, Pelléas et Mélisande op. 46

Fauré, Pelléas et Mélisande, incidental music Op. 80
Les Berceaux

Augusta Read Thomas, Creation for orchestra, cello and bass-baritone voice - Commissioned by the Orchestre de chambre de Paris

Fauré, Elegy

We spontaneously associate Pelléas et Mélisande with Debussy's opera based on Maeterlinck's play. But the drama also inspired Fauré and Sibelius, who wrote incidental music dating from 1898 and 1905 respectively. For this concert, choreographed and prepared with amateurs (children, teenagers and seniors), Thierry Thieu Niang takes the musical movement throughout the auditorium. Centered on the characters of Arkel (Pelléas's grandfather) and Yniold (son of Golaud, Pelléas's half-brother), this evening, for which Augusta Read Thomas's work was commissioned, questions the intimacy that develops between distant generations.