From September 7th until October 8th, Florian Sempey is Momus in Platée (Rameau) at the Palais Garnier, with Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble and conducted by Marc Minkowski. Comedy composed in1745, the ugly nymph Platée is laughed, convinced to be a great beauty and persuaded she has a real seduction power, even on the god Jupiter.
On Septembre 12th, Isabelle Druet, with the pianist Georges Pludermacher, sings Nuits d'Eté, composed by Hector Berlioz, during the Sceaux chamber music festival. It is a perfect program as the festival theme is "Saint-Petersburg's white nights" ; Berlioz had many contacts with Russia and many russians musiciians was admirated the french romantic composer.
Far away, Dominique Visse is on tour in New-Calédonia, Japon and China, with the baroque ensemble Stradivaria, in a recital "Le Voyage Burlesque". Real musical trip in the way of a french entertainment, lets us discover tavern music, drinks air, folk songs... famous melodies of the XVIIIth century.
