Three musical voyages to the Levant and beyond
LES CHEMINS D’ORIENT
Théâtre des Martyrs
03/07 - 20:00
05/07 - 20:00
06/07 - 20:00
Tickets : 20€ / 15€
03/07 - 20:00
05/07 - 20:00
06/07 - 20:00
Tickets : 20€ / 15€
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Each year, our recital series allow us to enrich the diversity our musical programming, to showcase more exceptional talent and to develop further the theme of that particular edition. During this 4th Mozartiade, pianist Lucas Blondeel will sweep us away on various musical routes to the Orient in the company of two remarkable singers, Laura Telly Cambier and Anke Herrmann, before closing the series with our first-ever solo recital. Are you curious to know what can happen when the East whispers into the ears of European composers? Join us this July to find out more.
Wednesday 03/07 - 20:00
LES CHEMINS D’ORIENT I (OPERA)
Works by Rameau, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Grétry, Salieri, Rossini, Verdi, Massenet
With soprano Laura Telly Cambier and pianist Lucas Blondeel
In the 18th century, operas featuring Turks were a real cultural phenomenon, with hundreds of productions featuring turbaned pashas enslaving hundreds of sopranos in their harems. Though mostly forgotten nowadays, works such as Gluck's Les pèlerins de la Mecque, Haydn's L'incontro improvviso or Grétry's La caravane du Caire all once knew their hour of glory. Mozart was to contribute first a sketch (Zaïde) and then a masterpiece (Die Entführung aus dem Serail). Thus the way was prepared for his Romantic-era successors such as Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi. After having sung the Contessa, Donna Anna and Fiordiligi in our previous editions, Laura Telly Cambier will don the odalisque’s attire to invite us into the secrets of the harem as imagined by the composers of the West. Lucas Blondeel will accompany her on this magic-carpet ride from the piano.
Friday 05/07 - 20:00
LES CHEMINS D’ORIENT II (LIEDER)
Works by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wolf and Loewe
With soprano Anke Herrmann and pianist Lucas Blondeel
After Vienna and Naples, Anke Herrmann and Lucas Blondeel take us to Chiraz, in the footsteps of the famous Persian poet Hafez. At the dawn of Romanticism, German poets such as Goethe, Rückert and Daumer drank deeply from this mystical and sensual spring. Their texts in turn inspired such composers as Schubert, Loewe, Mendelssohn, Brahms. Born in Kiev to a German father and Ukrainian mother, Anke Herrmann studied singing in Berlin at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule, then perfected her skills with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau before starting a collaboration with René Jacobs that would mark the beginning of an intense concert activity, particularly in the repertoires of the 17th and 18th centuries. A faithful artist of our festival, Anke Herrmann has been applauded by the public and the press for her characterful voice, her engaging expressiveness, her captivating interpretations. Her exceptional storytelling skills have led more than one audience member to share his desire to hear her one day in Schubert songs. This wish is about to be granted.
Saturday 06/07 - 20:00
LES CHEMINS D’ORIENT III (PIANO)
Works by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, Debussy, Mussorgsky and Balakirev
With pianist Lucas Blondeel
For our festival’s first-ever piano recital, Lucas Blondeel takes us to the Orient, at least as it was perceived musically in Europe (and Russia) in the 18th and 19th centuries. Our first stopover will be in Vienna, where the memory of the Turks is still very much alive in the 1780s, as we hear so well in this edition’s operatic centrepiece Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Thus it goes without saying that this recital is to begin with Mozart’s Sonata in A major with its famous 3rd movement alla turca. We continue our musical journey eastward with Schubert and Brahms pieces in the all'ongarese style (let us not forget that Eastern Europe was once dominated by the Ottomans), and then on to Istanbul for a march in honour of Sultan Abdul Medjid Khan by Donizetti/Liszt. After that, Godowsky and Debussy sweep us all the way to the Far East and then back to the Moorish gardens of Andalusia. We end our journey in the Arab world as intrepreted with a very benevolent curiosity by the Russian composers Mussorgsky and Balakirev; the latter’s virtuosic Oriental fantasy Islamey being this recital’s closing piece.
Wednesday 03/07 - 20:00
LES CHEMINS D’ORIENT I (OPERA)
Works by Rameau, Gluck, Haydn, Mozart, Grétry, Salieri, Rossini, Verdi, Massenet
With soprano Laura Telly Cambier and pianist Lucas Blondeel
In the 18th century, operas featuring Turks were a real cultural phenomenon, with hundreds of productions featuring turbaned pashas enslaving hundreds of sopranos in their harems. Though mostly forgotten nowadays, works such as Gluck's Les pèlerins de la Mecque, Haydn's L'incontro improvviso or Grétry's La caravane du Caire all once knew their hour of glory. Mozart was to contribute first a sketch (Zaïde) and then a masterpiece (Die Entführung aus dem Serail). Thus the way was prepared for his Romantic-era successors such as Rossini, Donizetti and Verdi. After having sung the Contessa, Donna Anna and Fiordiligi in our previous editions, Laura Telly Cambier will don the odalisque’s attire to invite us into the secrets of the harem as imagined by the composers of the West. Lucas Blondeel will accompany her on this magic-carpet ride from the piano.
Friday 05/07 - 20:00
LES CHEMINS D’ORIENT II (LIEDER)
Works by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wolf and Loewe
With soprano Anke Herrmann and pianist Lucas Blondeel
After Vienna and Naples, Anke Herrmann and Lucas Blondeel take us to Chiraz, in the footsteps of the famous Persian poet Hafez. At the dawn of Romanticism, German poets such as Goethe, Rückert and Daumer drank deeply from this mystical and sensual spring. Their texts in turn inspired such composers as Schubert, Loewe, Mendelssohn, Brahms. Born in Kiev to a German father and Ukrainian mother, Anke Herrmann studied singing in Berlin at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule, then perfected her skills with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau before starting a collaboration with René Jacobs that would mark the beginning of an intense concert activity, particularly in the repertoires of the 17th and 18th centuries. A faithful artist of our festival, Anke Herrmann has been applauded by the public and the press for her characterful voice, her engaging expressiveness, her captivating interpretations. Her exceptional storytelling skills have led more than one audience member to share his desire to hear her one day in Schubert songs. This wish is about to be granted.
Saturday 06/07 - 20:00
LES CHEMINS D’ORIENT III (PIANO)
Works by Mozart, Schubert, Brahms, Liszt, Debussy, Mussorgsky and Balakirev
With pianist Lucas Blondeel
For our festival’s first-ever piano recital, Lucas Blondeel takes us to the Orient, at least as it was perceived musically in Europe (and Russia) in the 18th and 19th centuries. Our first stopover will be in Vienna, where the memory of the Turks is still very much alive in the 1780s, as we hear so well in this edition’s operatic centrepiece Die Entführung aus dem Serail. Thus it goes without saying that this recital is to begin with Mozart’s Sonata in A major with its famous 3rd movement alla turca. We continue our musical journey eastward with Schubert and Brahms pieces in the all'ongarese style (let us not forget that Eastern Europe was once dominated by the Ottomans), and then on to Istanbul for a march in honour of Sultan Abdul Medjid Khan by Donizetti/Liszt. After that, Godowsky and Debussy sweep us all the way to the Far East and then back to the Moorish gardens of Andalusia. We end our journey in the Arab world as intrepreted with a very benevolent curiosity by the Russian composers Mussorgsky and Balakirev; the latter’s virtuosic Oriental fantasy Islamey being this recital’s closing piece.
BEFORE OR AFTER THE PERFORMANCE
Michaël Herzl and his team look forward to welcoming you at Le 22 to satisfy your hunger or thirst before or after the show. The Belgo-Peruvian cuisine is light and refined, the drinks warmed or chilled to perfection, the reception friendly, and the service with a smile. The restaurant is open 75 minutes before each performance. You can reserve your table by contacting the ticket office at 02 223 3208 or by sending a message to our Facebook page, where you will also find the weekly menu and other novelties.