"The Song of the Nightingale", on February 25 at the Philharmonie de Paris

– FAMILY CONCERT –
February 25 at 3 p.m.

Program: The Song of the Nightingale
Age: for all, from 8 years old
Date : February 25 at 3 p.m.
Duration: about 1 hour
Price : €14 for an adult ticket and €10 for a ticket for children under 15 years old
Location: concert hall, Cité de la musique

The musicians of the Orchestre national d’Île-de-France invite young and old alike to discover this work, accompanied by an actress and an audiovisual creation specially created for this concert
The actress and soprano Julia Knecht will intervene and sing passages to illustrate the link with Stravinsky’s opera The Nightingale, from which this symphonic poem is taken.
An audiovisual creation by Etienne Guiol has been produced specifically for this concert and will be screened throughout it

It took Stravinsky 5 years to finish “The Nightingale”, the writing of his opera having been interrupted by the commission of a ballet for the Ballets Russes, the magnificent “Firebird”
Shunned by the public, Stravinsky transformed his opera into a symphonic poem, “The Song of the Nightingale”
The story is told here by actress Julia Knecht
It is no longer the soprano’s trills that give life to the little nightingale’s misfortunes, whose melodious song is abandoned by the Emperor of China in favour of that of a mechanical nightingale, but the steps of a prima ballerina. The soprano, having nothing left to sing, tells us about the fate of the work, and the decisive meeting it brought about between the composer and the young choreographer George Balanchine.
A co-production Orchestre National d’Île-de-France, Philharmonie de Paris