2023-08-30 10:00:00
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CHRONIC. An event at the Berlioz Festival, the production of “Troyens”, in two evenings and by two different conductors (ouch!), confirmed its reputation as a cursed opera.
By Olivier Bellamy Deeply rooted in Isère, the Berlioz Festival is a leading event in the musical summer in France. © Bruno Moussier / AIDA public establishment of co / Arts in Isère Dauphiné Alpes (AIDA) Published on 08/30/2023 at 10:00 am
The long displayed indifference of the French for Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) is compensated by the love the English have for him. On disc, Thomas Beecham, Colin Davis (first integral) and John-Eliot Gardiner have worked miracles. Is it because his great love was an Irish actress, because he took refuge in London after the failure of his Damnation of Faustbecause he fainted from fever while reading Shakespeare, or quite simply because his eccentric personality arouses more sympathy across the Channel than in the country of Descartes?
Nothing is lukewarm or measured in the author of the Fantastic Symphony. Closer to the Churchillian “Too much is just enough for me” than to the “Nothing too much” supposed to define French art. To wash away the shame of a Prix de Rome refused three…
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