FULL La passion de Simone (Saariaho) Helsinki 2020
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: La passion de Simone
- Composer: Saariaho Kaija
- Libretto: Amin Maalouf Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Helsinki Music Centre, Finland
- Recorded: April 10, 2020
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Sayuri Araida, Isabelle Seleskovitch
- Conductor: Clément Mao-Takacs
- Orchestra: Avanti! Chamber Orchestra, La Chambre aux échos
- Stage Director: Aleksi Barrière
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: areena.yle
- Date Published: 2020
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, ensubs
- Video Recording from: areena.yle.fi FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Quote from avantimusic.fi:
The theatrical ensemble version of Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone will have its Helsinki premiere in The Helsinki Music Centre in Easter 2020. La Passion de Simone offers a new kind of Easter experience, even for those with long Easter traditions.Through its philosophical perspective the oratorio appeals also to the younger audience.
A Paris-based music theatre company, La Chambre aux échos commissioned the chamber orchestra version of the oratorio in 2012 and gave the first premiere in November 14th 2013 in Melos-Ethos Festival in Bratislava, Slovakia. The oratorio has since been performed on several festivals (Saint-Denis, Bergen, Njord, Lublin) as well as New York, Paris and Copenhagen and various opera houses in France.
In Helsinki, the artists from La Chambre aux échos will be performing together with Avanti! Chamber Orchestra. The performance is conducted by Clément Mao-Takacs, a Saariaho specialist, and directed by Aleksi Barrière.