THE Royaumont Festival returns from September 7 to October 6. What does this event promise each year? A journey through the classical music repertoire and a spotlight on contemporary music and dance.
While Foundation Royaumontcelebrates its 60th anniversary, the program brings together artists who have left their mark on its history, as well as promising young talents trained at the abbey.
The shows do not come alone, the site also offers met and an offer of specific restoration.
As explained Francis Maréchalgeneral director, this year the festival will offer a fairly exceptional program, which will bring together “great veterans” and artists of the new generation around original artistic proposals.
The return of Jocelyn Mienniel
“The return of Jocelyn Mienniel associated with the poet and translator Olivier Cadiot, one of the major players in the Center for Poetry & Translations that I created in 1984 with Bernard Noël, will offer an astonishing rereading of Gustav Mahler’s masterpiece, The Song of the Earth. specifies the general director.
As he explains, “Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly will be revisited by eight young composers. The singers of Cries of Parishosted in residence from 2010 to 2012, will become dancers under the leadership of François Chaignaud and Geoffroy Jourdain in a new version of Tumulus, a show “incubated” in Royaumont”.
The abbey will also celebrate the return of Vincent Dumestre and PHarmonic oem“who had left their mark by designing, during their residence in Royaumont, in 2003, a Bourgeois gentleman who subsequently had a phenomenal career”.
Philippe Herreweghewho regularly frequented Royaumont in the 80s with La Chapelle Royale, is back, for the first time with theChamps-Elysées Orchestrato offer the first version of Anton Bruckner’s 8th symphony, a “monument of the symphonic repertoire”.
Dance will take over the spaces of Royaumont
There dance “will invest the different spaces of Royaumont with a stroll designed by Thomas Lebrun, while the young choreographers Chloé Zamboni, Alexis Jestin and Leïla Ka will mark the weekends of the festival”. The entire program can be found on the abbey website.
The origin of the Royaumont Foundation
Originally, Henry and Isabel Goüin created the Royaumont Foundation in 1964 by offering him their abbey, family property for 59 years, giving him the mission of welcoming artists and intellectuals there. It will be the first Foundation recognized as being of public utility in France dedicated to culture.
Full price 35 euros. Online reservation at royaumont.com/billetterie by telephone at 01 30 35 58 00 or by email: [email protected]. The abbey is open to visits all year round.
