Created for Holy Week in the 18th century, the Leçons de Ténèbres are intended to prepare the faithful for Easter. From the texts of the Lamentations by Jeremiah of the Old Testament, they are true exhortations to repentance and meditation. In the Christian liturgy, they symbolize the loneliness of Christ at the moment of his […]
Built around great musical pages written "to pass the time" (symphonic pieces, masques and canons, arias for singing or drinking, monologues and scenes from tragedy), the evening shifts and rocks, between staged concert and Elizabethan theatre set to music. It's a cabaret, with epic characters appearing in counterpoint, all conjured up from a dream...
