Symphony and Monodrama for Narrator, Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra, 1832
Text and music Hector Berlioz - Théâtre Auditorium de Poitiers - Année de la France au Brésil, 2009
CAST
Musical direction : Philippe Herreweghe
Staging, Costumes and videos : Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Deloeuil
Lighting design : Rick Martin
Marcial di Fonzo Bo, Robert Getchell, Pierre-Yves Pruvot, Marie-Julie Debeaulieu, Lodie Kardouss, Blanche Konrad, Chloé Mérigot, Aline Pourbaix, Gabrielle Weischbuch
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées - Jeune Chœur de Paris (Geoffroy Jourdain)
PRODUCTION
Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, Clarac-Deloeuil > le lab. Special support from the Institut Français
ABOUT
Berlioz’ diptych Episodes in the Life of an Artist recreates different moments of the composer’s unrequited love story with British actress Harriet Smithson. Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock’s cult-movie Vertigo, our treatment creates a multimedia visual universe in which the orchestra players, an actor, 5 female dancers and video projections constantly interact in front of the audience. Both staged actions and videos present the various states of mind of this love-crazed young artist, plunged off the deep end, and finally finding hiw way back to the shore.
