Orlando
With a freedom that has now become his hallmark, Bestion offers a richly nuanced and textured immersion in the work of Orlando di Lasso (1532–1594), a major and prolific composer of the Renaissance. The original arrangements and orchestrations featured in this programme highlight the singular, unconventional personality and creativity of the Flemish master.
Through a subtle and subversive mirroring with Virginia Woolf’s eponymous novel Orlando, these musical works draw us into the compelling story of a young Renaissance man who traverses the centuries, and whose gender changes over the course of a lifetime. This felicitous parallel between literature and music offers a fresh, contemporary perspective on music that seems not to have aged a day.
17 artists
Simon-Pierre Bestion
Conception, adaptation, musical direction
and arrangements
CéCILIA GALLI
Costumes
Sebian Falk
Light design
ANNE-LISE HEIMBURGER
Adaptation
Alice Le Moigne
Sound management
Florian Delattre
Stage management
LA TEMPÊTE
Amélie Raison - soprano
Axelle Verner - alto
Marco van Baaren - tenor
René Ramos-Premier - baryton
Maxime Saïu - bass
Anne-Lise Heimburger - comedian
Quentin Darricau - saxophones & duduk
Pierre Carbonneaux - saxophones
Anaïs Ramage - flutes & dulcian
Abel Rohrbach - sackbut & bugle
Alexis Lahens - sackbut
Julie Dessaint - viola da gamba
Alice Trocellier - viola da gamba
Adrien Alix - electric bass & violone
Bruno Helstroffer - electric guitar
Elie Martin-Charrière - drums
Simon-Pierre Bestion - positive organ & synthetiseur
90 minutEs
ORLANDO DI LASSO (1532 - 1594)
Lectio prima : Parce mihi Domine
De profundis clamavi
La nuit froide et sombre
Sine textu 7 (I)
No giorno t’haggio
Dulces exuviae
S, U, Su, P, E, R, Per
Luxuriosa res vinum
Prophetiae Sibyllarum : Carmina chromatico
Quam pulchra es
Susannen fromm
Allala pia calia
Peccantem me quotidie
In monte Oliveti
Memento peccati tui
La cortesia
Si du malheur
Sine textu 7 (II)
Eripe me
Une puce j’ai dedans l’oreille
Requiem à 5 : Introït
With extracts from Orlando, a biography by Virginia Woolf - Translation by Charles Mauron - Le bruit du temps - September 2020
and in an adaptation by Anne-Lise Heimburger and Simon-Pierre Bestion.
Next dates
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Compiègne France
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Amsterdam Netherlands
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Utrecht Netherlands
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Paris France