Among the festival’s programming, La DRAC presents two focuses. The first is dedicated to the cellist Marie Ythier, artist in residence in Royaumont (2021-2024), the second is dedicated to theDialogos Ensemble and Katarina Livljanić with Hecube, Queen of Troy. An ambitious show that revisits Renaissance texts with the help of traditional Croatian singers.
The Festival de Royaumont is made up of meetings with artists. During 10 days, 27 appointments are scheduled. The festival invites the rediscovery of early music and contemporary creation, from choreographic research to transcultural encounters. The ambition of Francis Maréchal, Executive Director of the Foundation is to celebrate: "Diversity: diversity of repertoires, diversity of talents gathered, at the beginning or at the height of their careers" and to propose to the public "every day a "curtain raising"animated by the journalist Priscille Lafitte".
Marie Ythier, a cello in sharing, Orchestre national d'Auvergne + Sillages + Arne Deforce
(Saturday 23 September)
A large number of performers contribute to advancing the history of music. Marie Ythier, for example, is not a common cellist. It has entirely designed the program it presents with the Orchestre national d'Auvergne, thewake set and his colleague Arne Deforce. In particular, it obtained a State order for Of one, the other, Augustin Braud’s unpublished concerto. She spoke at length with Bastien David – whose luminous imagination she has appreciated ever since Riff, a collaboration that dates back to 2017 – before the double concerto was born The shadow of a doubt, to which theOrchestre national d'Auvergne gives remarkable depth.
Cellist Marie-Ythier © Kamir-Meridja
Michele Gagliano, faithful patron of Royaumont, provoked the meeting of the cellist and the composer Matteo Gualandi ; the Italian therefore created for her a work inspired by the fabric of sounds produced by her instrument, a nineteenth-century cello. A visionary virtuoso, Marie Ythier is constantly on the lookout for new ideas, which she does not hesitate to seek from the source. An interpreter in the full sense of the word, as creative as a translator of poetry, coupled with a formidable talent scout, who composed around the Ramifications of Gyorgy Ligeti the most heady bouquets.
"Hécube, queen of Troy". Ensemble Dialogos + Katarina Livljanić
(Saturday 30 September)
An ambitious show that revisits Renaissance texts with the help of traditional Croatian singers. The Trojan War is not over. It is continually replayed, through a thousand adaptations of the initial myth. In the fifth century BC, Euripides wrote the story of Hécube, a bruised queen who turns into a furious monster at the death of her children and finds in revenge the only way out of her fury. Erasmus translated the tragedy into Latin in 1506. The Venetian writer Lodovico Dolce adapted it to the Italian of the Renaissance a few years later, before his colleague from Dubrovnik, Marin Druzic, was inspired by it for a new version.
Portrait of Katarina Livljanić: © Matko Petrić
At the time when these two writers, born and dead in the same years, lie in two churches near the city of the Doges, Katarina Livljanić mix their words. Greeks and Trojans now sing and clash in Italian and Croatian dialects. They are the soloists of theDialogos Ensemble who embody them, while the traditional Dalmatian singers of Kantaduri intervene as an ancient choir. This assembly had already done wonders in 2015 for Dalmatica, a program focused on the sacred songs of the Adriatic.
The Dialogos Ensemble at Royaumont Abbey during its residency © François Mauger
For Hecube, Queen of Troy, it is the improvisation techniques of the Renaissance that reappear, as well as the harsh traditional singing of the Dubrovnik region. The strength of the arrangements, the intensity that emerges sublimate the ten strongly colored and powerfully dramatic voices. The Trojan War resumes. At Royaumont, she once again throws a striking light on the human soul and its palette all in shades of contradictory and deep feelings. Based on texts by Marin Držić (1559) and Lodovico Dolce (1543), Traditional songs inherited from Dubrovnik and Venice in the 16th century
27 appointments are organized to reveal: the movements of time with Remix Factory 93/23, reprint of a work by Hervé Robbe from 1993 and "Les Siècles & Isabelle Faust", the creations with "Short circuit", an ensemble committed for three decades to the creation, the soprano Johanna Vargas and the electric guitarist, Yaron Deutsch (concert of the Académie Voix Nouvelles), the Vienna of 1900 where the works of Gustav Mahler and Alexander von Zemlinsky areworn by the baritone, Christian Immlerand the pianist, Andreas Frese.
Orchestra Les Siècles and Isabelle Faust © Jean-Pierre-Gilson
In the early evening, place to the "Vienna Nights" from Arnold Schönberg to Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the new ensembles in residence with L'Ensemble Apotropaic (in residence in Royaumont 2023-2025) for music of the Middle Ages and Ensemble Semblance, for those of tomorrow.
Axelle Fanyo © Capucine de Chocqueuse
"String Corps" with the soprano Axelle Fanyo, Nadia and Lili Boulanger 2021 Grand Prize, the pianistTanguy de Williencourt and the Quatuor Diotima, shadows and lights with "Light & shadow", English polyphonies by the vocal ensemble Vox Luminis, specialist of the baroque repertoire of the XVIIe and XVIIIe century, under the direction of Lionel Meunier.
Baritone PortraitChristian Immler © Marco Borggreve
Of the dance with "It’s you we love"whose choreography is signed Leila Ka, artist associated with 104.
Leila Ka ©Pierre Planchenault
The odysseys with Keyvan and Bijan Chemirani. The Venetian splendours are accompanied by the harpsichordist Béatrice Martin, the mezzo-soprano Adèle Charvetand the chamber music ensemble. The Consort, the art of melody and lied with the Duos de l'Académie Orsay-Royaumont : Cyrielle Ndjiki Nyasoprano and Kaoli Ono piano, Adrien Fournaison baritone-bass and Natallia Yeliseyeva piano, Brenda Poupard mezzo-soprano and Anne-Louise Bourion piano, Dan D’Souza baritone and Dylan Perezpiano.
hook image "Bella-Donna" woman sublime mortal flower L'Ensemble Apotropaik © Royaumont
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