Happy coincidence of the calendar: while the Philharmonie de Paris is preparing to hold a conference this weekend on the place of “matrimoine” (the musical repertoire composed by women) in the concert or opera halls, Château de Versailles Spectacles unearths, on disc, the first two lyrical works ever written by a woman to have been performed at the Paris Opera.
More than forty years separate, in fact, the creation of Le
Céphale et Procris,
by Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, in 1694, and that of Les
Génies ou les Caratères de l'amour
, by Mademoiselle Duval.
The former is today considered one of the first great concert musicians in the history of French music (and one of the rare to achieve such fame, both as a performer and as a composer, under the Ancien Régime ) and has already benefited from significant rehabilitation work for several decades.
The second, on the other hand, remains a mystery, including for specialists in…
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