2023-09-07 12:02:03
– From Verdi to Jarrell, a diagonal return
While “Don Carlos” opens the season at the Grand Théâtre, the coming month will be marked by the tribute paid by the OSR and the Contrechamps ensemble to the Geneva composer.
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Rehearsal scene for “Don Carlos” on the stage of the Grand Théâtre.
MAGALI DOUGADOS
Let’s go for a new tour of halls and theaters. Concerts, recitals and lyrical productions are back in a place, that of Geneva, which displays an enviable tone. To the brief list of unmissable events delivered here, we could have added other appointments, just as significant at the start of the season. So let’s content ourselves with a brief and healthy dip in this opulent water.
One birthday, two parties
The Geneva composer Michael Jarrell is honored by the OSR and the Contrechamps ensemble.
MAURICE WEISS/OSTKREUZ
It is a symbolic age, which usually marks the transition from active life to that of withdrawal. The Geneva composer Michael Jarrell will reach his 65th birthday on October 8th and it is well worth an extended celebration to honor this figure who marked two generations of music lovers and students. Soon, his activities as a pedagogue within the Haute École de Musique will cease, in the meantime, the staves will continue to be blackened and the creations will undoubtedly follow one another in the years to come.
The next one is to be picked up on October 4 at 7:30 p.m. at Victoria Hall with theOrchestra of French-speaking Switzerland and its leader Jonathan Nott. This will be an opportunity to hear “Passage” for orchestra and clarinet, performed by the virtuoso tightrope walker Martin Fröst. A few days before, the 1is octoberall reverse shots will devote an intaglio portrait to Jarrell, through seven musical miniatures composed by young artists who rubbed shoulders with the master. It will always be at Victoria Hall.
Birth of a leader
Raphaël Merlin, new musical and artistic director of the Geneva Chamber Orchestra.
JULIE MIGNOT
Music lovers have learned to rub shoulders with him alongside his comrades from the Quatuor Ébène. The essentials of the cellist’s career Raphael Merlin was built like this, between accomplice bows. Beyond this long adventure, however, there was a growing love for orchestral conducting, which the Frenchman cultivated here and there, from time to time, particularly within the Forces Majeures, a collective that arrived in Geneva one day to deliver bicycle music.
Appointed last November as head of theGeneva Chamber Orchestra, the young chef begins his first experience as a director of a permanent formation and presents himself to the Geneva public during a concert which concentrates his tastes, his hobbies and his ambitions for the future. The concert of September 26 au Driving Forces building thus resembles a visiting card: one notably comes across Paul Dukas and Max Bruch, Robert Schumann and Gabriel Fauré. We will also pass through Ligeti and so many others. And finally, we will taste a piece composed for the occasion by the chef (“Dankgesang”), dedicated to the friends of Ébène.
A piano princess
Russian pianist Alexandra Dovgan.
IRINA SCHYMCHAK
She comes from a family of musicians and at only 17 years old, she aligns like few others at her age the praises and the dithyrambs of professionals and music lovers. Alexandra Dovgan is “the” prodigy that should not be missed in the field of the piano. Far from glitter, coquetry and any demonstrative virtuosity, the Russian impresses by the maturity of her playing, by the lofty view that she imposes on her instrument.
Andrei Sokolov, who quickly spotted her and placed her under her wing, was quite right in predicting a sparkling future for her a few years ago. Enthusiasts who missed it this summer at the Verbier Festival will catch up at Victoria Hall, October 6 On behalf of Caecilia agency. The program is almost identical: Bach, Beethoven and Brahms.
French Verdi
Rehearsal scene for “Don Carlos” on the stage of the Grand Théâtre.
MAGALI DOUGADOS
The Grand Theater opens the doors of its new season on September 15 by inviting on the stage Giuseppe Verdi and his monumental and intimate at the same time “Don Carlos”. The centerpiece of this grand French opera, the drama in five acts plunges us into the heart of the intrigues and heartbreaks that agitated the royal courts of Spain and France in the 16th century.
At the center of the libretto inspired by the work of Schiller, a trio formed by Philip II, who aspires to marry Elisabeth of Valois, the latter being secretly in love with the grandson of Charles V, Don Carlos precisely. The work is defended in the pit by the Orchester de la Suisse romande under the direction of Marc Minkowski. The staging is signed by the British Lydia Steier, whom the Geneva public discovered in 2019 with Rameau’s “Indies galantes”.
On the set, Charles Castronovo takes the title role (ceded Sept. 28 to Leonardo Capalbo), Dmitry Ulyanov is Philip II, Rachel Willis Sorensen plays Elisabeth de Valois and Stéphane Degout takes on the costume of Rodrigue, Marquis de Posa.
Rocco Zacheo joined the editorial staff of the Tribune de Genève in 2013; he deals with classical music and opera and devotes himself, on an ad hoc basis, to literary news and disparate cultural events. Previously, he worked for nine years at Le Temps newspaper and collaborated with RTS La Première. More informations
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