Grandes Heures de Cluny : Folies amoureuses et métamorphoses baroques
Folies amoureuses and baroque metamorphoses
By the ensemble LE SONGE DE MÉLÉTÉ
Isabelle GORSSE, soprano
Emmanuelle CÔTE, violin
Alice ROQUEFORT, violin
Marie LARSEN, bass viol
Sylvain CORNIC, harpsichord
And the NAHLO Company
Lohan JACQUET and Domitille DEMARET, dance
A sung and danced show for a modern-day Calisto
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Pier Francesco CAVALLI 1602-1676 was the greatest Venetian opera composer of the 17th century.
A cursed opera (2 of the singers in the cast died at the time of its premiere), Calisto fell into almost complete oblivion, but since its rediscovery in 1970, it has become CAVALLI's most performed opera, acclaimed by contemporary audiences.
A wild plot, in which mortals and mythological gods lust after each other, chase each other and metamorphose. This crazy story is told in La Calisto, CAVALLI's opera premiered with ballets in Venice in 1651. Dancer Lohan JACQUET and the musicians of the ensemble Le Songe de Mélété combine their worlds to create a modern-day Calisto. A masterpiece has powerful things to say, 400 years after its creation: they present the most beautiful extracts, interspersed with sonatas imagined by the best composers of the time. A show for song and dance: rare but accessible music, alternating joy and emotion; strong, sensitive and hypnotic choreography, conveying the wonder and anguish of today.
Lohan JACQUET: Trained at the Conservatoire de Mâcon and a graduate of the École Supérieure de Danse de Cannes, L. JACQUET co-founded the Danse à Milly festival in 2016. Since 2021 he has been the choreographer of the NAHLO company, for which he has created Sensible, Îlots and Île.
?Le Songe de Mélété - Isabelle GORSSE, soprano, Alice ROQUEFORT and Emmanuelle CÔTE, violins, Marie LARSEN, viola da gamba, Sylvain CORNIC, harpsichord: united by a desire to create live performances centred on the performing arts of the 17th and 18th centuries, but open to the aesthetics and artistic expressions of today (song, dance, instrumental music, theatre), with an experimental freedom where the spirit of play combines with the demands of research. They invite us to travel, to take a closer look at ourselves.