FULL LE ROSSIGNOL (Stravinsky) & LES MAMELLES DE TIRESIAS (Poulenc) Paris 2023 Sabine Devieilhe, Cyrille Dubois, Laurent Naouri
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Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Le Rossignol, Les mamelles de Tiresias
- Composer: Stravinsky Igor, Poulenc Francis
- Libretto: Stepan Mitusov after the tale by Hans Christian Andersen, Francis Poulenc after Guillaume Apollinaire's play Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris, France
- Recorded: March 2023
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Sabine Devieilhe, Cyrille Dubois, Chantal Santon Jeffery, Laurent Naouri, Victor Sicard, Rodolphe Briand, Francesco Salvadori, Jean-Sébastien Bou, Lucile Richardot
- Conductor: François-Xavier Roth
- Orchestra: Les Siècles
- Chorus: Ensemble Aedes
Information about the Recording
- Published by: mezzo tv
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: vk FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Les Mamelles de Tirésias by Poulenc finds its inspiration in the eponymous drama by Apollinaire created in 1917, three years after Stravinsky’s Le Rossignol. If Stravinsky’s work presents certain stylistic disparities related to the time of its maturation from 1908 to 1914, it remains imprinted with the spirit of his master Rimsky-Korsakov and especially that of the Golden Cockerel. Poulenc also took his time to refine the adaptation of the play by Apollinaire (one of the musician’s favorite poets) which lasted throughout the period of the Second World War. The musician takes malicious pleasure in pastiche different lyrical forms and incorporates certain modern rhythms such as jazz. The two works question in their own way the theme of appearance and powers, between the melodious bird and its mechanical double in Stravinsky and between man and woman in Poulenc. Under its aspect of surrealist pochade, Les Mamelles appears as a real social and even societal firebrand questioning, not without humor and cynicism, the place and role of women. A question that remains devilishly topical.