Name: Fanny and Felix
Start: 2023-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-07-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Hôtel-Dieu Museum - Hospices de Beaune

Organization

Admin

Festival International d'Opéra Baroque de Beaune

Conductor

Jérémie Rhorer

Others

Chœur de Chambre de Namur

Orchestra

Le Cercle de l'Harmonie

Singer

Soprano

Jodie Devos

Voice

Mezzo-soprano

Valentina Stadler

Mezzo-Soprano

Fanny and Felix

Beaune

France

Hôtel-Dieu Museum - Hospices de Beaune

Fanny and Felix: Märchen von der schönen Melusine, op.32 Mendelssohn (+3 More)

Public

The Fair Melusine, op. 32

Hero und Leander, Dramatic scene for Soprano and Orchestra, H262

Faust II

A Midsummer Night's Dream, incidental music, op. 61

Paul Koneri

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Theorbist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Countertenor

Baritone

Tenor

Bass-baritone

Contralto

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

You knew Felix, but what do you know about Fanny? She was the elder sister of the composer of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, bathed like him in the society of the Enlightenment and the early Romantics, where she frequented Goethe and Heine, and was an admired pianist in their pres-tigious salons. However, her vocation as a composer was constantly thwarted by her family, which was nevertheless among the most enlightened of its time, and which considered that a decent woman could not embark on a public career without dis-honour. This was the fate of many female creators of the time, who were silenced, and whose works they nevertheless managed to write are now coming to light. With Felix et Fanny, Jérémie Rhorer and Le Cercle de l’Harmonie mirror the scores of the brother and sister, united as much by their mutual affection, despite the inequality established between them, as by their common passion for the theatre. Although neither of them ever wrote a complete opera, they set to music and songs the most beautiful plays of the European repertoire, from Shakespeare to Schiller and of course Goethe. And if the grace and fantasy of Felix remain irresistible, the modernism of Fanny, which sometimes seems to open the door to Wagner, will be a discovery for many.

English

Vous connaissiez Felix, mais que savez-vous de Fanny ? Sœur aînée du compositeur du Songe d’une nuit d’été, baignée comme lui dans la société des Lumières et des premiers romantiques où elle fréquenta Goethe et Heine, pianiste admirée dans leurs prestigieux salons, sa vocation de compositrice se vit constamment contrariée par cette famille pourtant parmi les plus éclairées de son temps, qui estimait qu’une femme convenable ne pouvait se lancer sans déshonneur dans une carrière publique. Destin de bien des créatrices du temps, réduites au silence, et dont les œuvres qu’elles sont malgré tout parvenues à écrire reviennent aujourd’hui au jour. Avec Felix et Fanny, Jérémie Rhorer et le Cercle de l’Harmonie mettent en miroir les partitions du frère et de la sœur, unis autant par leur affection mutuelle, en dépit de l’inégalité établie entre eux, que par leur passion commune pour le théâtre. Si ni l’un, ni l’autre n’écrivirent jamais d’opéra complet, ils mirent en musique et offrirent à la voix les plus belles pièces du répertoire européen, de Shakespeare à Schiller en passant naturellement par Goethe. Et si la grâce, la fantaisie de Felix demeurent irrésistibles, le modernisme de Fanny, qui semble parfois ouvrir la porte à Wagner, sera pour beaucoup une découverte.

français

Fanny and Felix by Mendelssohn, Mendelssohn, F., Sat 15 Jul 2023, From (2023/2023), Conductor Jérémie Rhorer, Hôtel-Dieu Museum - Hospices de Beaune, Beaune, France

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Ensemble

Programme, About & Synopsis

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