THE LAST SORCERER
Music of Pauline Viardot,
libretto by Ivan Turgenev
Pourrières, July 19
Opera / uvillage
All told, it's almost a fairy tale concrete that without magic other than work, enthusiasm and imagination, we must put on the assets of the friendly team at Village Opera , a group of villagers who Pourrières past few years has founded this small festival, which now operates in the Adorable Minimes convent, seems to have taken its roots and that we still welcome the fruitful bloom.
A dynamic trio Jacques Hercelin , Ingrid Brunstein , Suzy Delenne , an artistic director, John Gaspary , painter and owner, a director Music, Luke Coad , a director and artistic director, Bernard Grimonet give coherence to original programming, subtly edited to large partitions (as Djamileh of Bizet last year) or smart adopted according to the place as it Last Sorcerer the prestigious signatures. The singers are selected and Pourrières CNIPAL (National Center for Workforce Development Artist Lyric) Marseille, by a jury of professionals, which explains the quality and the singers are recruited with the same care in the region. The costumes are also on site there. But this initial core and has begun to revolve around him, beaming with the same enthusiasm, the villagers who, under the chestnut trees along the walls of the convent, prepare a prelude the show, a convivial meal with the subject, washed down with wines of the vintage offered by local winemakers. Opera / uvillage is therefore also the friendly and festive atmosphere around a work climb without too much pretension but with a great ambition: scarcity. Indeed, in France, only one representation of this operetta since 1890 ... It is given here to celebrate the centenary of the death of Pauline Garcia Viardot wife (1821-1910.
Pauline Viardot
Magnificent destiny of this woman, younger sister of Malibran too soon, worthy heir of his talent and technique, fiercely inculcated by their large and tyrannical father, Manuel, singer composer, which begins in Spain to rediscover the work of Rossini favorite performer, collaborator and even Barber of Seville which he created Almaviva. Contralto with easy high notes, she quickly became famous throughout Europe, creating many works of great composers of his time it inspires (Meyerbeer, Berlioz, Gounod, Brahms, Saint-Saens ...) but jealously guarding the legacy of English baroque virtuosity and castrated by his father, declining face the onslaught of late Romanticism, the Wagnerism of verismo and stammering. Pianist and composer equally talented student and friend of Liszt, Chopin, Sand, who is inspired to write his novel Consuelo , multilingual and educated, muse and muse, she wife director Theatres Italians, Louis Viardot. He is older, Hispanic and translator Cervantes remarkable, beautiful image of a father, and will also be the introducer of Russian literature in France, translating Pushkin and Gogol, Turgenev had helped during a tour of Pauline in Russia. The Russian focus until his death at the singer not live up to the roof of his house at Bougival. This is in Baden-Baden, where the couple fleeing republican dictatorship of Napoleon III, escorted by the Russian writer, that will be created this operetta in the house became a mecca Viardot European music even visited by the monarchs. 
The Work
The Last Sorcerer for well located, is a fanciful sketch and family, which is hardly worth the naive booklet for children Viardot first interpreters, but which contains remarkable music pages, including a choral polyphony rather complex, not free winks to other composers. The work was quite successful. Only the 1870 war between Prussia and France interrupted a successful career. Forgot in France since 1889, in Russia, for cons, The Last Sorcerer remains in the repertory of local troops and they asked whether it is in Russian, as Turgenev, like most people of aristocrats and cultured his time in Russia, spoke and wrote in French. Neither the booklet nor the score are only accessible in France, it is to the credit of the creative team have conducted a proper investigation in search of the original orchestration by Pauline Viardot, then orchestrated by Eduard Lassen for representation Weimar court under the direction of nothing less than Liszt . is finally in New York, Harvard University and the University of Calgary, Canada, she has found respectively the libretto and score, orchestration for six musicians, conducted by Professor Zékulin Specialist work.
We will not dwell on this booklet childish tribulations of cantankerous Krakamiche, sorcerer or dormant genetic degeneration that looks like the old ruling dynasties in Europe then, flanked by the lazy farfadesque Perlinpinpin and wacky, debased his valet, as his former gigantism is also lost qu'éperdu old magician powers in distress in a forest inhabited by elves, or rather elfettes coquettish and mischievous, fairies which make her birthday is paying the head of grumpy old pretentious. Add Stella, the daughter of the sorcerer and Lelio, a young prince in love, to love thwarted by the annoying, in an environment that does not forget the Dream of a Summer Night Shakespeare, nor, music, Mendelssohn's version .
Realization and Interpretation
We are embarrassed, spoke in a preamble which has the genealogy of the work, embarrassment sensitive Stone-Villa Loumagne which will prove, moreover, an excellent Krakamiche singing and playing with great expression in the heart of the operetta. The text should have been raised without giving way to more musical evocation of Viardot in Baden-Baden, in which part Luke Coad itself Gently and effectively to lead the work, pay the person interpreting humor with an air of Papageno. Bernard Grimonet became master of the plateau and those places which he knows cleverly adapting his stage which means, necessarily limited, are offset-or-highlighted by humor and a certain smile kitsch: lace very neo-Rococo late nineteenth century e , make up a canopy pierced the branch of chestnut umbrella and umbrella the cloister, weaving spinning magical elves and goblins or cobwebs covering the dusty decay of the "macha" Sorcerer's dacha, end of world, that of male supremacy, embodied by the bearded and gruff old fogy, peasant costume or uniform of Napoleon III paradoxical spiked helmet of Bismarck William 1 st : the offensive against women, one in two of the male warrior force stressed by Perlinpinpin helmeted lattice rifle to his shoulder and the foot toy tank. Fairies, elves, in diaphanous tunics, if not crowned "thyme and marjoram, have beautiful wreaths and garlands different: harmony and the triumph of feminine sweetness dissonance brutal men.
musicians led by Coadou , the ever attentive and Isabelle Terjan piano, Sarah Friedmann , Elsa Mionnet violins, Florian Huc viola, Virginia Bertazzon cello and Camille Roux the harp poetic, are excellent.
A little serious work but certainly treated very seriously by this team, the work for a small family made a work for the family of a village and friends.
Pourrières, Convent of the Minimes
The Last Sorcerer , Pauline Viardot, Ivan Turgenev Booklet.
15, 17, 19, 21 and 23 July
Musical Director: Luke Coad.
Piano: Isabelle Terjan; violins Sarah Friedman, Elsa Mionnet;
alto: Florian Huc, cello: Virginia Bertazzon; Harp Camille Roux chamber choir Minimes.
Choreography: Colette Bollini
Directed Bernard Grimonet.
Sets : Gerard Meliani and his team.
Costumes : Mireille Caillol and his team.
Soundtrack : Rachel Marie Audier (Cefedem) director: Sylvie Maestro
Accessories : Gerard Nauguet
Illustration: Radka Malinova
Distribution :
Stone-Villa Loumagne: Krakamiche; Cyril Costanzo Perlinpinpin; Céline Laly: Stella; Bérangère Mauduit: Lelio; of Camille Hartoy: Queen elf; Laury Littolff: Verbena.
Elves: Amber Monray, Elise Monray Caroline Rancel, Ita Graffin, Laura Martinez, Manon Gleize Bérangère Cauquil Janina Mattolat Charlotte Welti.
Festival Photos:
1. An irritable sorcerer
2. Daughter and dad;
3. Very pretty fairies
4. Under the chestnut tree, a delighted audience.
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