Festival de Belle-Île

Welcome to Lyrique-en-mer!

This year 2018, the Festival celebrates its 20th birthday, from 25 July to 17 August with a varied and colourful programme centred around Puccini’s masterpiece Tosca, with the renowned Welsh soprano Natalya Romaniw in the title role.

An excellent team of singers joins us in Belle-Ile this summer, including the soprano Jazmin Black Grollemund, the tenors Adorjàn Pataki and Tyler Nelson, baritone Christian Bowers, bass-baritone Tyler Simpson, and the bass John Paul Huckle.

Works by Mozart and Haydn will be sung by the Festival choir in the island’s churches, and our impressive team of young artists will present their own evening of opera scenes.

A highlight of the season will undoubtedly be the sound of 200 voices singing Mozart’s Requiem, all rehearsed in a single day, while our orchestra of talented musicians performs works by Handel and Haydn in the beautiful church of Locmaria.

The Citadelle Vauban, where the festival was born, will host a special evening Gala d’anniversaire, where we will celebrate the festival’s birthday. We are also delighted to announce that the virtuoso violinist Nemanja Radulovic makes a welcome return to the island, giving a recital with French pianist, Laure Favre-Kahn.

A warm welcome awaits you in Belle-Ile for a wonderful anniversary season.

Philip Walsh
Directeur artistique

Come and Sing

Maybe you have sung in the past ? Maybe you sing in a choir? Maybe you’ve long wanted to sing in the Festival but you haven’t had the time to commit to all the rehearsals?

We invited you to join the Choeur lyrique of Belle-Ile for one day, to participate in the singing workshop based on the Mozart Requiem, on Monday 13 August 2018.

You arrive in the morning for the first rehearsal with the artistic director, Philip Walsh.

After a picnic lunch, the second rehearsal follows with the festival orchestra and soloists, and the day finishes with a concert at 6.30pm in the Eglise de Palais.

The workshop is limited to 200 singers, who need to book in advance.
The cost of participation is 15 euros.

Advance booking

Book in advance by sending this form to :

Venez chanter !
Lyrique-en-mer / Festival international de Belle-Ile
BP 50 - 56360 Le Palais

Contact Anne Germain : agermain.festival@gmail.com

Croisière lyrique

TOSCA de Puccini vous est proposé avec notre Croisière Lyrique le mercredi 8 août 2018
Vous pouvez venir à Belle-Ile par bateau réservé spécialement pour vous, amateurs d’Opéra
Départ : 16 h de La Trinité sur Mer
Retour : 23 h 30 de Belle-Ile en Mer
Tarif : Bateau Aller–Retour + Opéra : 85 €

PUCCINI : TOSCA

Natalya Romaniw (Tosca)
Adorján Pataki (Cavaradossi)
Tyler Simpson (Scarpia)
John Paul Huckle (Angelotti)
Christian Bowers (Il Sagrestano)
Tyler Nelson (Spoletta)
Les jeunes artistes et le choeur d’enfants du Festival
L’orchestre du Festival
Philip Walsh, direction musicale
Stephanie Havey, mise en scène

Salle Arletty, Le Palais

Billetterie

Sur weezevent Billetterie pour cette soirée en choisissant la date du 8 août : https://www.weezevent.com/tosca-opera-de-puccini

Sur le site de l’Office de Tourisme www.belle-ile.com ( très prochainement) ou par téléphone au 02 97 31 81 93

CONCERT D’OUVERTURE

Présentation de la saison 2018

Jazmin Black Grollemund, Natalya Romaniw, soprano
Debi Wong, mezzo-soprano
Tyler Nelson, Adorján Pataki, ténor
Christian Bowers, baryton
Tyler Simpson, baryton-basse,
John Paul Huckle, basse
Gerardo Felisatti, David Jackson, Olga Vassileva, piano

Salle Arletty, Le Palais
Le 25 juillet 20h30

MOZART : MISSA SOLEMNIS
HAYDN : MESSE NELSON

Le choeur, les jeunes artistes, et l’orchestre du Festival
Jazmin Black Grollemund, soprano
Debi Wong, mezzo-soprano
Tyler Nelson, ténor
John Paul Huckle, basse
David Jackson, Philip Walsh, direction musicale

Eglise de Locmaria le 26 juillet, le 16 août 20h30
Eglise de Bangor, le 31 juillet 20h30
Eglise de Le Palais, le 4 août 20h30
Eglise de Sauzon, le 9 août 20h30

RÉCITAL JEUNES TALENTS

Les jeunes artistes du Festival
David Jackson, piano

Salle Sarah Bernhardt, Sauzon
Le 28 juillet 19h

LE CONCERT DU PIANO

Inauguration du piano du Festival

Les solistes et les musiciens du Festival
Gerardo Felisatti, David Jackson, Olga Vassileva, Philip Walsh, piano

Salle Arletty, Le Palais
Le 30 juillet 20h30

NEMANJA RADULOVIĆ

Récital exceptionnel

Nemanja Radulović, violon
Laure Favre-Kahn, piano

Bloch : Nigun
Prokofiev : Sonate No. 2 pour violon et piano
Franck : Sonate pour violon et piano
Ravel : Tzigane – Rhapsodie de concert

Citadelle Vauban, Le Palais
Le 2 août 20h30

PUCCINI : TOSCA

Salle Arletty, Le Palais
Les 3, 5, 8, 12, 17 août 20h00

SCÈNES D’OPÉRA

« Le songe d’une nuit d’été »

Les jeunes artistes du Festival
David Jackson, direction musicale
Debi Wong, mise en scène

Salle Arletty, Le Palais
Les 7, 14 août 20h30

GALA D’ANNIVERSAIRE

Célébration des 20 ans du Festival

Jazmin Black Grollemund, Natalya Romaniw, soprano
Debi Wong, mezzo-soprano
Tyler Nelson, Adorján Pataki, ténor
Christian Bowers, baryton
Tyler Simpson, baryton-basse
John Paul Huckle, basse
Gerardo Felisatti, David Jackson, Olga Vassileva, piano

Citadelle Vauban, Le Palais
Le 10 août 20h30

HAENDEL ET HAYDN
A LOCMARIA

Concert d’orchestre du Festival

Haydn : Symphonie 39 « Tempesta di mare »

Hændel : Enjoy the sweet Elysian grove (Alceste)

Hændel : Tune your harps (Esther)

Haydn : Mit würd und Hoheit angetan (La Création)

Hændel : Concerto pour orgue « Le coucou et le rossignol »

Haydn : Symphonie 92 « Oxford »

Tyler Nelson, ténor
Philip Walsh, orgue, direction musicale

Église de Locmaria
Le 11 août 20h30

VENEZ CHANTER !
LE REQUIEM DE MOZART

200 choristes, avec le choeur et orchestre du Festival

Jazmin Black Grollemund, soprano
Debi Wong, mezzo-soprano
Tyler Nelson, ténor
John Paul Huckle, basse
Philip Walsh, direction musicale

Eglise de Le Palais
Le 13 août 18h30

Education

Masterclasses

Les 8, 9, 10, 11 et 12 août 2018 de 14h à 17h dans le hall du Collège Michel Lotte à Le Palais.

The opportunity to participate in or attend the master class in is open to all our young artists, members of the local choir, and if time allows, other singers visiting the island. Members of the public are invited to attend these masterclasses, for which entry is free. Led by our principal artists, singers explore all aspects of vocal technique, interpretation and presentation of these public classes, which are free to the public.

The young artists

The Festival welcomes each year a dozen or so talented young singers who are still students or just beginning their careers. They participate in the masterclasses, give recitals during the festival, and sing or cover roles in the operas, as well as being the chorus for the productions and joining the Festival Choir in the sacred music concerts.
In 2017 for the second time time, they gave their own performance of Opera Scenes, a highlight of the summer’s season. This invaluable opportunity to rub shoulders with professional colleagues, to gain experience through performance and training is one of the most exciting elements of the festival’s activity. This year, as for the past three seasons, among our young artists were current students at the Conservatoire de Rennes.

Dear friends of the Festival lyrique,

“You say you're a singer, so sing!”. Richard Cowan sang an air of Scarpia from Tosca to Madame Larquetoux and the Festival was born. Who would have dared to think in August 1998 after two wonderful concerts in the Arsenal of the Citadelle Vauban that in 2018 the adventure would continue!

Tosca, which some 20 years ago was the “opening” of the Festival Lyrique de Belle-Ile, soon re-christened Lyrique-en-mer, is the opera chosen this summer by Philip Walsh our artistic director, Richard Cowan’s music director for 15 years.

The year 2018 began with our beautiful New Year’s Concert in the church at Sauzon on January 1st. In a programme of baroque arias and Christmas carols Louise Pingeot, Nemanja Ljubinkovic and Philip Walsh delighted an audience that responded to our invitation, while the storm Carmen blew outside.

We take this as a favourable omen for this 20th anniversary, that on this first day of the year, when the elements bearing the name of one of the most tempestuous operatic heroines were unleashed, our audience nevertheless came out in droves.

Marie-Françoise Morvan, president
and the Board of Directors

The Festival Board

President	Marie-Françoise Morvan
Vice-President/Secretary	Dominique Dechet
Treasurer	Régine Roué
Assistant treasurer	Maryvonne Le Gac
Assistant secretary, choir representative, and coordinator of volunteers	Catherine Danielo
Administrators	Michèle Bardoux
	Simon Cnockaert
	Anne Germain
	Isabelle Virloget

Contact
dominique.dechet@gmail.com	06 85 17 29 97