Name: Cinq-Mars
Start: 2015-01-27T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2015-01-27T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theater an der Wien

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Organization

Singer

Soprano

Véronique Gens

Princesse Marie de Gonzague

Tenor

Charles Castronovo

Cinq-Mars

Baritone

Tassis Christoyannis

Le conseiller de Thou

Bass

Andrew Foster-Williams

Le Père Joseph

André Heyboer

Le vicomte de Fontrailles

Norma Nahoun

Marion Delorme

Conductor

Ulf Schirmer

Jacques-Greg Belobo

Le Roi

Le Chancelier

Marie Lenormand

Ninon de L'Enclos

Mezzo-soprano

Le Berger

Libretto

Louis Gallet

Paul Poirson

MusikTheater an der Wien

Others

Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Orchestra

Münchner Rundfunkorchester

French

Cinq-Mars -  (Five-Mars)

Vienna

Austria

Theater an der Wien

Five-Mars

Approved

In 1852 Charles Gounod created one of the most famous works in music history: Méditation sur le 1er prelude de Bach - better known as Gounod's Ave Maria. The deeply religious Gounod composed mainly masses, oratorios, cantatas and operas. He celebrated his first stage success with his fourth opera, Faust, in 1859 - to this day it is his best-known composition of this genre.
In his first two operas, Sapho (1851) and Le médecin malgré lui (1858; The Doctor Against Will), Gounod showed his talent for creating new things with and through imitation and combination of older styles. He also used this technique in 1877 in the drama lyrique Cinq-Mars. The opera is primarily about the love affair between Princess Marie de Gonzague and Marquis de Cinq-Mars; Because of her, rather because she is supposed to marry the King of Poland, Cinq-Mars joins the conspirators against Cardinal Richelieu. The plot is exposed and Cinq-Mars imprisoned and sentenced to death. His confidante de Thou drafts a rescue plan for the following day, but his execution is brought forward so that there is no rescue for Cinq-Mars.


A cooperation with the Palazetto Bru Zane Venice

The Palazzetto Bru Zane - Center de musique romantique française - has set itself the task of helping French musical treasures of the 19th century (1780-1920) to regain their due charisma. It is based in Venice in a palazzetto from 1695 that the Bru Foundation has restored for its purposes. It combines artistic ambition with scientific claim in the humanistic spirit of the Bru Foundation. The focus of his work is in collaboration with international institutions on research, publication of scores and books, organization of international concerts, as well as the promotion of educational projects and CD productions.

English

Five-Mars by Gounod, From (2015/2015), Conductor Ulf Schirmer, Theater an der Wien, Vienna, Austria

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