Cycle
Massenet, a must!

Commemoration of the centenary of the death of Prince Albert I of Monaco

Concert Symphonic Music
Including Ouverture de fête by Camille Saint-Saëns and Jules Massenet’s La Nef triomphale, both composed for the inauguration of the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco in 1910, this concert honours those two great names of the French repertoire on the eve of the First World War.

Dates

Sun 17 July 2022
21.30
Cour d’honneur du Palais Princier, Monte-Carlo

Performers

MONTE-CARLO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
CHOIR OF THE MONTE-CARLO OPERA HOUSE
Kazuki Yamada conductor
Stefano Visconti choir conductor
Marie-Nicole Lemieux contralto
Alexandre Kantorow piano
Sibylle Duchesne violin
Alexandre Fougeroux cello

Programme

Camille SAINT-SAËNS
Ouverture de fête, op. 133
La Muse et le Poète, op. 132, for violin, cello and orchestra
Mélodies persanes, op. 26
Jules MASSENET
Piano Concerto
La Nef triomphale
Production Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Scores of Massenet's La Nef triomphale and Saint-Saëns's Mélodies persanes published by the Palazzetto Bru Zane

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