The staged ensemble version of composer Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone will be performed for the first time in Helsinki, at the Helsinki Music Centre’s Concert Hall, at Easter 2020.For audiences who might traditionally head to church and passions at Easter, the work offers an opportunity for a new kind of Easter experience. Through its philosophical ideas, the work will also appeal to a younger audience.
The Paris-based musical theatre group La Chambre aux échos commissioned a chamber orchestra version of La Passion de Simone and premiered it on 14 November 2013 at the Melos-Ethos festival in Bratislava, Slovakia. The production has since travelled to festivals (Saint-Denis, Bergen, Njord, Lublin), New York, Paris, Copenhagen and various opera houses in France.
In addition to La Chambre aux échos, the Finnish chamber orchestra Avanti! The conductor is Saariaho specialist Clément Mao-Takacs. The stage director is Aleksi Barrière.
Sun 12.4.2020, at 19:00
Mon 13.4.2020, at 16:00
Kaija Saariaho
composition
Amin Maalouf
libretto
Clément Mao-Takacs
conductor
Aleksi Barrière
steering
Chamber Orchestra Avanti!
Sayuri Araida
soprano soloist
Isabelle Seleskovitch
actress
Sandra Darcel (soprano)
vocal quartet
Marianne Seleskovitch (mezzo-soprano)
vocal quartet
Johan Viau (tenor)
vocal quartet
Romain Dayez (bass baritone)
vocal quartet
