CHÂTEAU DE LA ROCHE-GUYON
La NAISSANCE DU JOURColette’s 150th anniversary
SATURDAY, JUNE 24 2023 - 18.00
Anny Duperey, readings
Trio George Sand
By intertwining Colette’s texts – whose 150th anniversary we celebrate in 2023 – and the works of Lili Boulanger, Mel Bonis, Marie Jaëll or Cécile Chaminade, the George Sand Trio paints a musical group portrait of these French artists of the beginning of the century. The fleeting impressions of L’étoile Vesper are reflected in the impressionistic writing of Mel Bonis’ Soir et Matin, the childhood joys of La Maison de Claudine in Marie Jaëll’s luminous Dans un rêve, the grimacing irony of La fin de Chéri in Louise Farrenc’s piquant minuet, and the lost illusions of Mes apprentissages in the dark resignation of Lili Boulanger’s D’un soir triste… As for Cécile Chaminade, who toured the world, and Yvette Guilbert, an icon of the realist song movement, they both knew, just like Colette, the joys and torments of a life spent on stage. From journalism to music hall, from La Maison de Claudine to L’Etoile Vesper, Anny Duperey’s readings bring Colette’s protean work to life and retrace her extraordinary career.
PROGRAMME
LA NAISSANCE DU
JOUR
Colette’s 150th anniversary
YVETTE GUILBERT (1865-1944)
Musical introduction
COLETTE (1873-1954)
Mes apprentissages
CECILE CHAMINADE (1857-1944)
Trio, op. 11
Andante
COLETTE (1873-1954)
La Maison de Claudine
MARIE JAËLL (1846-1925)
Dans un rêve
COLETTE (1873-1954)
Le Pur et l’Impur
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (1862-1918)
Printemps
COLETTE (1873-1954)
La Naissance du jour
MAURICE RAVEL (1875-1937)
Trio in A minor
Modéré
COLETTE (1873-1954)
L’Étoile Vesper
MEL BONIS (1858-1937)
Soir and Matin
COLETTE (1873-1954)
La Fin de Chéri
LOUISE FARRENC (1804-1875)
Trio n°1, op.33
Menuet
EMMANUELLE LAMBERT (1975-)
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
LILI BOULANGER (1893-1918)
D’un matin de printemps
ARTISTS
ANNY DUPEREY, readings
TRIO GEORGE SAND
ANNY DUPEREY
Born in 1947 in Rouen, Annie Legras studied theater in Rouen, then at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d’Art Dramatique in Paris, and chose the pseudonym of Anny Duperey. On the big screen, she played Marianne in Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967), then Maria in Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo (André Hunebelle, 1968), an adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s novel. She played alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo in Stavisky (Alain Resnais), and was nominated for the Cesar for best supporting actress for her performance in Un éléphant ça trompe énormément (Yves Robert, 1976). On stage, she worked for ten years with Jean-Louis Barrault at the Théâtre d’Orsay – a fruitful collaboration that allowed her to play, among others, in Isabella Morra by André Pieyre de Mandiargues. She is also known to the general public for having played Catherine Beaumont, one of the main characters in the television series Une famille formidable, from 1992 to 2018. Passionate about writing, Anny Duperey is the author of several novels including L’Admiroir, awarded by the Académie Française in 1977, and an autobiography, Le Voile noir, published in 1992.
TRIO GEORGE SAND
The George Sand Trio is composed of Virginie Buscail, Diana Ligeti and Anne-Lise Gastaldi. Virginie Buscail is second concertmaster of the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France. Diana Ligeti is a professor at the CNSMD of Paris and the CRR of Rueil-Malmaison. The pianist Anne-Lise Gastaldi teaches at the CNSMD of Paris and the CRR of Paris.
The trio is characterized by a rare balance between these three brilliant individualities who share the same love for music. It is not surprising, therefore, that they have performed in the most beautiful festivals, from the Folle Journée de Nantes to the St. Petersburg International Festival, from the Berlioz Festival to the Chaise-Dieu Festival, from the Chopin Festival in Nohant to the Lisztomanias in Châteauroux, from the Besançon International Festival to the Musée d’Orsay, from the Fenice Theatre in Venice to the Société de Musique Contemporaine du Québec.
Their repertoire covers more than 250 years of music, from Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, through the Romantic period which the trio particularly likes to explore, to our present time – the trio is notably dedicatee of pieces by Gérard Pesson, Michael Jarrell and Mauro Lanza.
Their CD Debussy – Lili Boulanger was awarded 4* by Le Monde de la Musique and Ravel – Mel Bonis – Fauré was awarded ffff by the magazine Télérama. Their last CD, dedicated to Fanny Mendelssohn, was released on the Elstir label with writings by Jérôme Bastianelli and Diane Meur.
Fond of art in general, the three musicians know, under the impulse of pianist Anne-Lise Gastaldi, how to surround themselves with other artists to create rich and original shows. They have thus, alongside the singer Juliette, ensured the instrumental part of the book-disc Marcel Proust une vie en musiques, and they are the musicians of the show Avant l’heure où les thés d’après-midi finissaient, with Loïc Corbery of the Comédie-Française.
CHÂTEAU DE LA ROCHE-GUYON
Address: 1 rue de l’Audience, 95780 La Roche-Guyon
FROM GARE ST LAZARE
Take the train to Mantes-la-Jolie.
Bus line 95-11 goes to La Roche-Guyon.
DRIVE FROM PARIS
Through highway A15
Take the A15 to «Cergy-Pontoise», then drive on to the D14. When you reach Magny-en-Vexin, take the exit «Hodent / Vernon» then follow the signs to «Vernon» and «La Roche-Guyon».
Through highway A13
Take the A13 to «Rouen». When you reach Mantes-la-Jolie, take the exit no. 11, then follow the signs to «Limay» and «Vétheuil / La Roche-Guyon».
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