2023-12-04 01:15:04
THE MORNING LIST
This week, we bring you a selection of concerts and music festivals planned before the Christmas holiday period. With the creation in Colmar of a lyrical work based on The Journal of Hélène Berr, died in Auschwitz in 1945, works by George Benjamin and Mozart presented in Nîmes, and the same Mozart in programs in Paris and Cannes, the first edition at the IMA of a festival dedicated to contemporary creation from the Arab world and its diasporas, full of pop, rock, electro, rap discoveries, etc. at the Trans Musicales in Rennes, a rap festival at the Bataclan in support of the Abbé-Pierre Foundation, Vivaldi, Zelenka and Bach at the Château de Fontainebleau, and the renowned Senegalese group Orchestra Baobab in Paris.
An opera inspired by “Diary of Hélène Berr”
Poster for “Journal d’Hélène Berr”, by Bernard Foccroulle. RHINE NATIONAL OPERA
Detailing for two years in a diary the overwhelming daily life of a life which ended tragically in a concentration camp, such was the motivation of Anne Frank, a refugee in the Netherlands. Another young Jewish girl, Parisian Hélène Berr, did the same during the same period (1942-1944) before dying at Auschwitz in 1945. Published in 2008, The Diary of Hélène Berr will give rise for the first time to an opera, created on December 3 at La Comédie de Colmar, whose director, Matthieu Crucciani, will direct.
Conceived as a lyrical monodrama by Bernard Foccroulle, a Belgian musician best known for his activities as an organist and head of institutions, the score mobilizes a chamber ensemble (piano and string quartet) in order to make the human and literary qualities of a text from which the composer himself took the libretto. Finally, the role of Hélène will be entrusted to Adèle Charvet, a leading figure of the young generation of mezzo-sopranos. P. Gi.
“The Diary of Hélène Berr”, by Bernard Foccroulle at La Comédie, 6 route d’Ingersheim, Colmar. Until December 8 before a national tour. From €6 to €26.
Fianso, Doria, So So Maness… Rappers mobilized against poor housing
Poster for the La Nuit de la rue festival. ABBÉ-PIERRE FOUNDATION
Since 2014, rap artists have mobilized every year to play for the Abbé-Pierre Foundation and thus help it raise funds against poor housing, particularly that of young people under 25. This year, this support concert is available over two evenings and has chosen the festival name La Nuit de la rue. The rapper Fianso (known on cinema screens under his real name, Sofiane Zermani) is once again leading the dance. He has been sponsor of the Foundation since 2019 and occupies the position with energy, he who, as a young adult, experienced the street after being kicked out of his family home.
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