THE MORNING LIST
The music department team has handpicked concerts and festivals, most of which are scheduled for the last two weeks of March and early April. Among them a program in Caen dedicated to the composer Graciane Finzi, the French tour of the British group The House of Love, the ultimate opera by Monteverdi, the coronation of poppea, traveling to Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Colmar, a blues festival in Beauvais, the discovery of the composer Adèle Hugo, an accompanying concert after the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey, the Franco-Tunisian singer and actress Nawel Ben Kraïem…
Graciane Finzi in Majesty at Caen
After honoring a number of world-famous composers, from Henri Dutilleux to Elliott Carter, this year’s festival Aspects des musiques d’actualité dedicates a wide panorama to Graciane Finzi. The musician, born in 1945, is characterized by a wealth of writing in all genres, which is only surpassed by the freshness of an always personal expression. Revivals and creations will make it possible to verify this during the event organized by the Orchestra and the Caen Conservatory. P Gi
aspects of today’s music, Caen Conservatory & Orchestra, from March 21st to 26th. From €0 to €15.
French Tour of the House of Love
Nice reference to Anaïs Nin, the “House of Love” run by dark singer and guitarist Guy Chadwick was one of the most famous rock formations across the English Channel in the late 1980s. Sitting at the crossroads of the educated Velvet Underground and the post-punk urgency of the Only Ones, the quartet has had some success in France, thanks in particular to the great singles Shine on etc The Beatles and the Stoneswithout forgetting a highlight passage at the 1991 Olympics.
After various fortunes and personnel changes, veteran Guy Chadwick, still at the helm surrounded by new musicians, released an invigorating, aptly titled eighth album in the fall of 2022 A state of grace. This return to France for six appointments (Rouen, Lorient, Paris, Lille, Dijon, Feyzin) is an event since it has been her last visit … eighteen years. Mrs C
The house of love on tour: at 106 in Rouen, March 22; To The hydrophone, at Lorient, the 23 ; At Café de la Danse, in Paris (full), 24; To The Aeronef in Lille, the 25th ; To Steam, in Dijon, 26; To L’Epicerie Moderne, a Feyzinthe 27th
“The Coronation of Poppea”, the strength of the union
An inexhaustible masterpiece, Monteverdi’s final opera continues to rock the lyrical stages. The Emperor Nero, completely enchanted by the sensual Poppea, thinks of expelling the Empress Octavia in order to elevate the courtesan to the throne. He pays just as little attention to the warnings of the philosopher Seneca, whom he wants to force to commit suicide, as to the threats of attacks by their rivals. Nothing can prevent this union, which the gods themselves seem to favor. Breaking off with his first operas (Orpheus, The return of Odysseus to his homeland), Monteverdi, in the coronation of poppea, replaced mythological figures with complex human characters, combined the trivial with the sublime, and gave priority to the passion of love over morality and reason.
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