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)
Luxuriosa res vinum
Dulces exuviae
Eripe me
Memento peccati tui
No giorno t’haggio
Susannen frumb
De profundis clamavi (début)
S, U, Su, P, E, R, Per
La cortesia
De profundis clamavi (suite)
La nuict froide et sombre
Sine textu 7 (I)
Lectio prima : Parce mihi Domine
Peccantem me quotidie
Allala pia calia
Requiem à 5 : Introït
Une puce j’ai dedans l’oreille
Prophetiae Sibyllarum : Carmina chromatico
Si du malheur
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.
Production Compagnie vocale et instrumentale La Tempête
Coproduction Festival CODES
Support MC:2 Grenoble, Caisse des Dépôts, Fondation Société Générale, DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes, Centre National de la Musique, SPEDIDAM
