Author Archives: Camille

Invitation to the Voyage

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Baudelaire in words and music

 

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto
David Zobel, pianist
Raymond Cloutier, actor

 

Program:

– L’ Albatros (Les Fleurs du mal, II)
L’ Albatros, music : Ernest Chausson
La Vie antérieure (Les Fleurs du mal, XII), music : Henri Duparc

– L’Ennemi (Les Fleurs du mal, X)
Le Flacon (Les Fleurs du mal, XLVIII), music : Léo Ferré

– L’Invitation au voyage (Les Fleurs du mal, LIII)
L’Invitation au voyage, music : Henri Duparc
Chant d’automne (Les Fleurs du mal, LVI), music : Gabriel Fauré

– À une heure du matin (Le Spleen de Paris, X)
Les Hiboux (Les Fleurs du mal, LXVII), music : Déodat de Severac
La Musique (Les Fleurs du mal, LXIX), music : Gustave Charpentier

– Harmonie du soir (Les Fleurs du mal, XLVII )
La Mort des amants (Les Fleurs du mal, CXXI), music : Gustave Charpentier

– Letter to M. Fernand Desnoyers, followed by Recueillement
Recueillement, music : Claude Debussy
Le Jet d’eau (Recueil, Les Épaves, Galanteries VIII), music : Claude Debussy

– Enivrez-vous (Le Spleen de Paris, XXXIII)
La Rançon (Les Épaves, XIX), music : Gabriel Fauré
Hymne (Les Épaves Galanteries, X), music : Gabriel Fauré

Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

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Musical director – Fabio Luisi
Stage director- David Pountney

Riccardo – Marcelo Alvarez
Renato – George Petean
Amelia – Sondra Radvanovsky
Ulrica – Marie-Nicole Lemieux
Oscar – Sen Guo
Silvano – Yuriy Tsiple
Giudice – Otar Jorjikia
Samuele – Ildo Song
Tom – Dimitri Pkhaladze
Servo d’Amelia – Trystan Llŷr Griffiths

Philharmonia Zürich
Chor der Oper Zürich

Marie-Nicole Lemieux is the patron of Tous à l’Opéra

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Marie-Nicole Lemieux is the patron of the 2017 edition of Tous à l’Opéra ! which will take place on Saturday 6 et Sunday 7 May.

To open this event, she has chosen to offer a surprise concert at the Opéra Comique on Friday 5 May at 20:30. She has invited the actress Julie Depardieu, the pianist Daniel Blumenthal, as well as artists whose names are kept secret !

Click here for more information.

Berlioz: Les Troyens

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Musical director – John Nelson

Didon – Joyce Di Donato
Énée – Michael Spyres
Chorèbe – Stéphane Degout
Cassandre – Marie-Nicole Lemieux
Ascagne – Marianne Crebassa
Anna – Hannah Hipp
Narbal – Philippe Sly

Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Badische Staatsopernchor, dir. Ulrich Wagner
Choeur de l’Opéra national du Rhin, dir. Sandrine Abello
Choeur de l’OPS, dir. Catherine Bolzinger

Rossini Concerts

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European Tour

Musical director – Jean-Marie Zeitouni

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, contralto

 

A European tour of concerts for the release of the Rossini CD by Warner Classics.

La Nuit de la Voix

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25th Nuit de la Voix of the Orange Foundation 

 
An exclusive musical evening with major names of jazz, opera, French music and world music, with André Manoukian, Philippe Jaroussky, DIVA, China Moses, Rosemary Standley, Lena Chamamyan, Dom La Nena, Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin, Karina Gauvin and more than forty artists on stage.

 

Live broadcast on the website of the Fondation Orange and on Radio Classique.

Release of the Rossini album & Beginning of the European tour

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The album “Rossini, Sì, sì, sì, sì !”, first album of Marie-Nicole Lemieux with Erato – Warner Classics, recorded in December 2015 with the Orchestre National Montpellier Languedoc Roussillon conducted by Enrique Mazzola is released today !

Today is also marked by the beginning of the European tour with a first concert in Moscow, which will be followed by concerts in Metz on March 11th, in Avignon on March 15th, in Albi on March 19th et at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées (Paris) on March 24th.

More information about the concerts, here.

The CD may be purchased, by following this link.