Is it a final explosion of vitality of the cultural environment before governments leave the chainsaw?
I have never lived a month of September like this. I would have had to have the gift of ubiquity to attend all the spectacle shows. I missed several and yet, I spent one in two evenings at home. In New York or Paris, I would not have been more asked.
At the symphonic house, Rafael Payare and Yannick Nézet-Séguin pushed their orchestras to an unequaled level. Payare with Faust’s damnationan oratorio so poorly welcomed its creation that it caused the financial bankruptcy of Hector Berlioz! Some criticisms have denied the four British singers chosen by the OSM, the Karen Cargill mezzo in particular. It is true that they were not “top”, but the OSM and the choirs were divine!
A gift of 5 m $
Under the baguette of Nézet-Séguin, the metropolitan orchestra now has an international reputation. My neighboring landing, musician Jean Robitaille, lacked words to qualify the masterful execution of the Symphony no 3, who opened the season. The concert, he said to me, would have deserved alone the $ 5 million that had just given to the OM the patron Alex Ionescu.
Thursday evening, the 18th, chef Jovino Santos Neto, from Seattle, dazzles the faithful of the National Jazz Orchestra with the explosive music of Brazilian composer Hermeto Pascoal. A whole tribute to Pascoal, who had paid the soul a few days earlier in Rio.
I should have camp in place of the arts! I saw it too Beautiful figurefour heterogeneous choreographies of the great Canadian ballets … (that I am out of loyalty for my late Ludmilla Chiriaeff and also because a little nephew, Benjamin Poirier, is a good career). On September 22, at the Carré 150 in Victoriaville, the Grands Ballets were on tour. Benjamin, almost at the foot raised, had to urgently execute the choreography of a dancer who had discomfort.
At Duceppe and TNM
At Duceppe, I saw Rue duplessis, my little darkness. I liked, but with reserve, when I had trouble finding what was theatrical in the adaptation of the novel by Jean-Philippe Pleau. I felt like I was witnessing the recording of a broom!
I also looked for dramatic action and conflicts in AMKim Thúy’s play at TNM. The aesthetics are beautiful, but the choreography of the dancer Trieu Phong Chung is repetitive. Cynthia Wu-Maheux, on the other hand, cannot be more true in her embodiment of Kim Thúy. Michel Corriveau’s music also listens to with pleasure.
I finished September with Dracula, that we present at the Tohu to Halloween. A skilled and crazy adaptation that amused me a lot despite a ghostly sound system. My friend Jean Leclerc, who interpreted Dracula on Broadway in 1978, will find it difficult to recognize his character.
Nail of this dazzling comeback, Gilles Vigneault is now launching a book containing five poems and eight of his biggest songs. A few weeks in advance on his 97th birthday. My dear Gilles, it’s your turn … Lalalala …
