Once it has tasted the direction it is bitten

The small room at the top of the coffee of flora preserves the privacy of consumers. Only if a small point of concern bothered the serenity of Christophe Rousset, which small - lunch not less with appetite. The day before, the first rehearsal in costume of the "Giulio Cesare" by Handel, reassured him. This new production of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées is a big issue: because, for the first time, he leads a Handel Opera in Paris, before reoffend within a few months, with an another masterpiece of the saxon composer, "Ariodante".

The gaze that relates to the Roman Emperor Irina Brook, who signs the staging, it met: comic naturally found its place, but a creaking comic, one that trigger people to with be dangerous become laughable. "Irina has a true sense of the show, and shows her a great love for humanity." We talked much about Shakespeare, this interweaving found in his plays, between tragic and derision.

For these performances, Rousset is as custom, at the head of its lyrical Talens. He said bluntly: it is under the pressure of external forces that he had been brought to create whole, which celebrates this year its fifteen years. It is William Christie, which he was the assistant to les Arts florissants, which has pushed to the Orchestra, while he was well behind his harpsichord. "Once it has tasted the direction, it is bitten." And events are chained, Beaune old music festival gave us confidence, FNAC Music disks allowed us to save, the Opera House of Amsterdam committed us. And the film by Gérard Corbiau "Farinelli", the soundtrack has sold over a million copies and sells, made us known to a wide audience.

Frank colours

For four years, lyrical Talens the name comes from a book by Rameau, "The festivities of Hebe" and mark the interest that its founder is to vote have been in residence in Montpellier. Today, the Group seeks another support perhaps will from Toulouse. Composed only of intermittent, which has good sides "musicians can benefit from the experience they acquire from other formations", it is with variable geometry, three instrumentalists to a quarantine, and has earned a reputation in little-known works of Lully, Salieri, Martin y Soler... We love the frankness of its colours, and we appreciate this mix of rigour and energy made his head at the present time one of the best interpreters of French, also popular music in the Italian baroque. Pending push its investigations by the end of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th century, Handel ("Partenope"), Rameau ("Castor and Pollux", "Hippolyte et aricie") will be on the agenda in the coming months.

This does not preclude that, thirteen years, listening to Robert Veyron-Lacroix, fell in love with the harpsichord to continue his activity as recitalist. The requirement, the stress, loneliness are his companions; but also the possibility to say things that he cannot express Orchestra, to deliver his musical design with greater purity. And if he teaches more at the national Conservatory of music in Paris, Christophe Rousset did in not abandoned pedagogy. The evidence: the experience as it prepares to lead with the French Orchestra of young Baroque, which it will be the baptism. A way to stay in touch with young people, to deal with a gritty, vivier and why step into a best and the brightest day of them lyrical Talens. "With a program focusing on dance in Lully, Muffat, Bach, we wanted to put the bar very high, by choosing pieces with the technical requirements are important." Dominique Meyer, Director of the TCE, wanted to try the adventure. This will be my way of paying my contribution to education, because it is essential to transmit.