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FULL Les sept dernières paroles du Christ en croix (Dubois) Limoges 2021 Hélène Carpentier, Kévin Amiel, Alexandre Duhamel
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Les sept dernières paroles du Christ en croix
- Composer: DuBois Theodore
- Libretto:
- Venue & Opera Company: Opera de Limoges, France
- Recorded: April 4, 2021
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Hélène Carpentier, Kévin Amiel, Alexandre Duhamel
- Conductor: Edward Ananian-Cooper
- Orchestra: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Limoges
- Chorus: Chœur de l'Opéra de Limoges
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
In its original version of 1867 for small orchestra, organ, choir and soloists reconstituted by A. Vigneron (ed. Diem).
Painful subject among all: the veneration of the seven words pronounced by Jesus crucified, taken from the four gospels, which became a subject of meditation, of spiritual exercise. This oratorio is undoubtedly Théodore Dubois’ best-known work. The work, commissioned in 1867 by the parish priest of Sainte-Clotilde in Paris for Good Friday, was first of all intended for a small instrumental and vocal formation, using the usual means of a Parisian parish of the second half of the 19th century, but the oratorio was so successful that it was quickly re-orchestrated for a full orchestra to be played at Pasdeloup concerts in Paris and around the world.
The original score having disappeared, it was necessary to reconstitute the work with a whole research work to finally propose this initial version.