Nemanja Radulović | violin
Laure Favre-Kahn | piano
Michel Vuillermoz (Sociétaire de la Comédie Française) | narrator
Music by Beethoven and words by Tolstoy performed by Nemanja Radulović and Michel Vuillermoz
JEALOUSY AND DEMENTIA
Beethoven Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 9 Op. 47 « A Kreutzer »
Tolstoy The Kreutzer Sonata, excerpts from the novel
Young audience workshops Comment ça marche ?
Steeped in the ideals of 1789, Beethoven dreamed of Paris. At the dawn of the new century, he therefore did his best to attract Napoleon’s attention and his huge Sonata for violin and piano No. 9 is dedicated to Rodolphe Kreutzer, a close friend of the Corsican general. But by trying to be too original – nothing like this had ever been heard before – the Master of Bonn alienated the French virtuoso, who could make neither head nor tail of it. Undaunted, Nemanja Radulović, enfant terrible of the violin, who has formed a chamber music duet with Laure Favre-Kahn, is sure to dazzle. In Tolstoy’s work, jealousy and insanity prompt Pozdnychev to kill his wife for becoming too close to her chamber music partner. Michel Vuillermoz will temporarily forsake the Comédie Française to perform this great text.
Coréalisation Jeanine Roze Production / Théâtre des Champs-Elysées
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