Staging - 2018

Requiem, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Staging

Requiem, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

When the Arcana Ensemble asked me to once again collaborate with them for a concert, in the Fall of 2018, I accepted without hesitation. Granted, approaching Mozart's Requiem from a staging point of view would certainly prove to be a considerable challenge, but I had no doubt that this endeavor would bring our collaboration to a new level of understanding.

I presented them with a "concept" which seemed to make this concert’s oscillation between plainsong and Mozart’s mass dramaturgically coherent: to turn the singers into the guardians of the sanctuary where they would sing. They would walk and chant as ghosts watching over eternity with songs for the dead. Dressed in white and covered in eery dust, they would resemble the statues that haunt temples, ensuring the passage of the dead for whom they raise their voices. A more abstract than illustrative interpretation of the text, which draws us closer to our common goal: to share the universality and timelessness of these pieces with an audience welcomed for its diversity.

Émilie Rault - September 2018

Performances

Notre-Dame du Liban
Paris, France
2018

Staging

Émilie Rault

Conductor

Rémi Aguirre Zubiri

Requiem, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Requiem, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Cast

Julie Werth: Soprano solo

Aurélie Bouglé: Mezzo-Soprano solo

Yanis Benabdallah: Tenor solo

Aurélien Perney : Bass-baritone Solo

Rémi Aguirre Zubiri : Conductor

Émilie Rault: Staging

Julien Rezak: Piano 1

Sayuri Nicoleau : Piano 2

Nadia Bendjaballah: Percussions

Arcana Chorus


Production: Arcana Ensemble