Cycle
Mirroring worlds

Boléro

Symphonic Music
© Nicolas Auproux
From Georges Bizet’s student cantata of the early 1850s Le Retour de Virginie (based on Bernardin de Saint-Pierre) to Maurice Ravel’s Bolero (1928), this concert explores the orientalist imagination of French composers, with a pertinent contribution from a woman composer, Mel Bonis’s Suite orientale (1900).

Dates

Fri 3 May 2024
20.00
Auditorium de Lyon, Lyon
Sat 4 May 2024
18.00
Auditorium de Lyon, Lyon

Performers

ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE LYON
Ben Glassberg conductor
Marie-Andrée Bouchard-Lesieur mezzo-soprano
Cyrille Dubois tenor
Patrick Bolleire bass

Programme

Mel BONIS
Suite orientale

Georges BIZET
Le Retour de Virginie

Maurice RAVEL
Rapsodie espagnole
Bolero
Production Auditorium-Orchestre national de Lyon
In collaboration with the Palazzetto Bru Zane