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Weekend inspired by Shakespeare
from September 29 to November 16, 2017
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To be or not to be

Le Poème Harmonique - Shakespeare, Purcell
Show
Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique
Duration: about 1h20

Program

To be or not to be
Un spectacle écrit par Ivan Alexandre
Henry Purcell
If the music be the food of love Z.379c
What a sad fate
To bee or not to bee (Cesare Morelli)
Chaconne en sol mineur
Fairest Isle (King Arthur, or The British Worthy, Z.628)
Dido and Aeneas (extraits)
What power art thou?
A New Ground en mi mineur, Z.T.682 d'après "Here The Deities Approve"
One charming night (The Fairy Queen, Z.629)
Slow Aire
They tell us that you mighty powers above - extrait de the Indian Queen
Your hay it is mow'd
Ouverure (Jeremiah Clarke)
La Grande Danse
William Shakespeare
La Nuit des rois
Hamlet
Richard II
Macbeth
Le Songe d'une nuit d'été
La Tempête

Distribution

Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, conducting
Vincent Huguet , staging
Bertrand Couderc, lights
Clémence Pernoud, costumes
Nicholas Tamagna, contre-ténor
Geoffrey Carey, actor
Shakespeare and Purcell: the first is to English literature what the second is to English music—that is to say, its emblematic figure. Conductor Vincent Dumestre and director Vincent Huguet bring the pair together on a single stage.
Karina-Canellakis

Salle des concerts - Cité de la musique

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Getting here

Porte de Pantin station
M5 Paris Underground (Métro) Line 5 3B Tram 3B
Address
221 avenue Jean-Jaurès, 75019 Paris