Musical director of the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the tireless Quebec conductor returns to Paris for the start of a long-term project at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées: a
Ring
by Wagner with his former orchestra, the Rotterdam Philharmonic, which begins this Saturday, April 23 with
L'Or du Rhin
.
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LE FIGARO.
- What challenge does the mapping of the
Ring
represent for a conductor?
And what pitfalls to avoid?
Yannick NEZET-SEGUIN.
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It's a great trajectory, and I like your image of cartography.
We must never forget that it is a story, stay as close as possible to the spoken rhythm, avoiding any complacency in sound.
Keep the overall vision without getting lost in the detail.
But that's no reason to adopt too fast a tempo.
The
Ring
is something big, with huge soundscapes that take time to sculpt.
There is in Wagner a harmonic development which it is important to emphasize, and it is this…
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