La Tempête

La Tempête

Who were the Sibyls, those oracular women who, from antiquity to the Renaissance, connected mankind with the afterlife? La Tempête delves into their mysterious world in this scenic performance that blends baroque music by Monteverdi and Purcell with Mediterranean folk music and contemporary compositions. In works by Alfonso X el Sabio, Cristóbal de Morales, Xenakis and Moultaka, the singers call upon the ancient prophetesses to fathom what they still have to tell us today.

Programme

• Zad Moultaka

  Le feu se repose en changeant (Rituel de tirage du Yi Jing) (World Premiere) 

  1967* 
• Iannis Xenakis

  Excerpt from Rebonds A 
  Excerpt from Rebonds B 

  1922-2001 
• George Aperghis

  Conversations 
  Dèze 

  1945* 
• Claudio Monteverdi

  Excerpt from L’Orfeo 

  1567-1643 
• Alfonso X el Sabio

  Excerpt from Madre de Deus 

  1221-1284 
• Traditional

  Verses from El Canto de la Sibila 

  Castilian, Catalan 
• Cristóbal de Morales / Bartolomé Cárceres / Alonso de Córdoba / Juan de Triana

  Refrains from El Canto de la Sibila 

  c1500-1553 / fl. 16th century / 1505-1589 / fl. 1477-1490 
• Euripides

  Orestes stasimo 

  c480-406 BC 
• Traditional

  Kyra mou portaitissa 
  
  Programme subject to change

  Byzantine Greek 

Musicians

• Helena Bregar soprano, baroque guitar 
• Sarah Lefeuvre soprano, recorder, ney 
• Mathilde Rossignol mezzo-soprano, violin 
• Fanny Châtelain alto, flute 
• Fabrice Foison tenor, saxophone 
• Guy-Loup Boisneau tenor, percussion 
• Mario Barantes baritone, dance 
• Réné Ramos-Premier baritone 
• Jawa Manla traditional voice, oud  
• Matteo Pastorino clarinet 
• Noé Clerc accordeon 
• Xavier Marquis basson, clarinet, duduk 
• Julie Dessaint viola da gamba, guitar 
• Lilas Réglat double bass, viola da gamba 
• Simon-Pierre Bestion arrangements, musical and stage direction 
• Solène Fourt scenography, costumes 
• Sebian Lemarchand lighting design 
• Florian Delattre stage and lighting management