Mezzo Isabelle Druet and baritone Thomas Dolié are gathered twice in the coming weeks, in the respective clothes of Concepción and Ramiro (Ravel's L'Heure espagnole), two roles that suit them perfectly!
Gathered around conductor François-Xavier Roth, they will sing these roles in turn with the orchestra Les Siècles, then with the London Symphony Orchestra, a few weeks later.
This will not be their roles debuts, since they have already sung them in recent years, one with the Orchestre national de Lyon (a recording is available on the Naxos label) and the other at the Cologne Opera in Germany and the Paris Opera.
Another common point in the coming weeks is that they will both be featured in Johannes Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion: Isabelle Druet with the Gürzenich Orchester, conducted by François-Xavier Roth (whom she will also meet again for the Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde in Zurich) and Thomas Dolié with the Accentus choir and Insula Orchestra conducted by Laurence Equilbey, at the Seine Musicale; the latter will meanwhile be Thésée (Lemoyne's Phèdre), at the Arsenal de Metz and at the Opéra de Limoges.
L'Heure espagnole, M. Ravel
13 March 2019, 20:00, at Grand Théâtre de Provence d'Aix-en-Provence
14 March 2019, 19:30, at MC2 de Grenoble
16 March 2019, 20:00, at Grange au Lac d'Evian-les-bains
19 March 2019, 20:00, at Cité de la Musique de Paris
