Name: Funeral night
Start: 2022-03-20
End: 2022-03-20
Location: Théâtre des Célestins

Organization

Festival d'Aix en Provence

Singer

Soprano

Elisabeth Boudreault

Contralto

Fiona McGown

Alto

Tenor

Andrew Henley

Bass

Romain Bockler

Stage director

Robin Tebbutt

Costume designer

Vicki Mortimer

Katie Mitchell

Conductor

Simon-Pierre Bestion de Camboulas

Set designer

Lighting designer

James Farncombe

Opéra National de Bordeaux

Opéra de Lyon

De Nationale Opera

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

German

Funeral night

Lyon

France

Théâtre des Célestins

Funeral Night (Trauernacht): Kantaten Bach,JS

Public

Cantatas

French

Approved

Nuit Funèbre (Trauernacht) - Extraits
Nuit Funèbre (Trauernacht) - Extraits des cantates de Jean-Sébastien Bach
À retrouver du 19 au 27 mars aux Célestins, Théâtre de Lyon : https://www.opera-lyon.com/fr/saison-...

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Throughout his plethora of career, Bach has composed no less than 200 cantatas, almost all for the parish of Leipzig and sometimes at the rate of one per week (!). On the other hand, he did not compose any opera, which Katie Mitchell remedies for him with Nuit funèbre (Trauernacht) . The director has recomposed a musical and scenic dramaturgy from a musical patchwork of extracts from little-known cantatas. From there,  Funeral Night (Trauernacht)presents itself as a secular cantata for five singers and eleven instrumentalists, a meditation on death, which testifies to the range of emotions at work in Bach, between abysmal doubt and the comfort of faith. Working on the psychology of the characters, Mitchell's staging, which had already carried The Passion according to Saint-Matthew on stage , is made of millimeter movements and surgical gestures that support the theatrical dimension of the whole.

English

Funeral night by Bach, J. S., Sun 20 Mar 2022, From (2022/2022), Directed by Robin Tebbutt, Katie Mitchell,, Conductor Simon-Pierre Bestion de Camboulas, Théâtre des Célestins, Lyon, France

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