Name: Petite messe solennelle
Start: 2023-03-23T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-01T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet

Organization

Set designer

Oria Puppo

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Christophe Schaeffer

Conductor

Gildas Pungier

Stage director

Emily Wilson

Jos Houben

Singer

Soprano

Estelle Béréau

Violaine Le Chenadec

Sylvie Becdelièvre

Contralto

Blandine de Sansal

Alto

Stéphanie Olier

Anne Ollivier

Tenor

Sahy Ratia

Étienne Garreau

Marlon Soufflet

Bass

Ronan Airault

Jean Ballereau

Julien Reynaud

Pianist

Colette Diard

Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet

Others

choir Mélisme

Angers Nantes Opéra

Petite messe solennelle -  (Little solemn mass)

Paris

France

Grande Salle

Petite messe solennelle Rossini

Public

Private

Little solemn mass

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

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

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Baritone

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

A show at the crossroads of all possibilities. On one side, Gioacchino Rossini and his Petite messe solennelle . On the other, the duo of directors but also actors Jos Houben and Emily Wilson, whose work is burlesque. Is the mixing of the two worlds a heresy? On the contrary, it is complementary. 

Rossini was 71 when he composed for the wife of a friend, Count Alexis Pillet-Will, this mass of thin orchestral dimensions. The composer who had spent his life stringing opera buffa successes, in retirement for ages, comes out of his lair in Passy to embroider this masterpiece of sacred music, extraordinarily woven from his own inclinations to lightness . “Is it really sacred music that I have just made, or sacred music? he wrote to Pillet-Will.

Jos Houben and Emily Wilson, on the other hand, observe, carve and map the continent of comedy to the point of raising the search for its springs to the rank of an almost spiritual quest - on this subject, Houben's lectures on laughter are a fascinating must. clever and funny. The instrumental duo, looking for accidents, will therefore have, around the singers directed by Gildas Pungier, a flea market setting where sellers and buyers meet, a pretext for the most delirious games of objects.

A thousand leagues away from profaning the work, the staging deports it and transcends it, multiplying the fractures while celebrating this mass (“the last mortal sin of my old age”, according to Rossini) which brings harmony to it. "Following the composer's invitation, we gladly venture into this great territory of the sacred while remaining light and surprising with a nod to Tati and Charlot", explains the duo of comic explorers, at the head of a spectacle "a little bit ridiculous, like the Tower of Pisa".

English

Un spectacle au croisement de tous les possibles. D’un côté, Gioacchino Rossini et sa Petite messe solennelle. De l’autre, le duo de metteurs en scène mais aussi comédiens Jos Houben et Emily Wilson, dont le travail verse dans le burlesque. Le mélange des deux mondes est-il une hérésie ? Au contraire, il se révèle complémentaire. 

Rossini a 71 ans lorsqu’il compose pour la femme d’un ami, le comte Alexis Pillet-Will, cette messe de minces dimensions orchestrales. Le compositeur qui avait passé sa vie à enchaîner les succès d’opéra buffa, en retraite depuis des lustres, sort de sa tanière à Passy pour broder ce chef-d'œuvre de la musique sacrée, extraordinairement tissé de ses propres penchants à la légèreté. «Est-ce bien de la musique sacrée que je viens de faire, ou de la sacrée musique ? » écrira-t-il à Pillet-Will.

Jos Houben et Emily Wilson, eux, observent, découpent et cartographient le continent de la comédie au point d’élever la recherche de ses ressorts au rang de quête quasi spirituelle - à ce sujet, les conférences de Houben sur le rire sont un must fascinant d’intelligence et de drôlerie. Le duo d’instrumentistes, en recherche d’accidents, va donc disposer, autour des chanteurs dirigés par Gildas Pungier, un décor de marché aux puces où se croisent vendeurs et acheteurs, prétexte aux jeux d’objets les plus délirants.

À mille lieues de profaner l'œuvre, la mise en scène la déporte et la transcende, multipliant les fractures tout en célébrant cette messe (« le dernier péché mortel de ma vieillesse », selon Rossini) qui y apporte de l’harmonie. « Suivant l’invitation du compositeur, nous nous aventurons volontiers dans ce grand territoire du sacré tout en restant légers et surprenants avec un clin d’oeil à Tati et Charlot », explique le duo d’explorateurs comiques, à la tête d’un spectacle « un tout petit peu ridicule, comme la tour de Pise ».

français

Little solemn mass by Rossini, From (2023/2023), Directed by Emily Wilson, Jos Houben,, Conductor Gildas Pungier, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, Paris, France

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