Berlioz - La Nonne Sanglante

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https://www.festivalberlioz.com/Visions-et-nonne-sanglante#container

The Berlioz Festival in La Côte Saint André, near Lyon, will propose a concert featuring several French rarities, including all the sketches that Berlioz left for his unfinished opera "La Nonne Sanglante". The concert will be recorded for broadcast.
Furthermore the cast is very promising. Daniel Kawka, the conductor, is not a household name, but nonetheless a gem of a conductor. I heard him some years ago in Dukas' Ariane, and it was absolutely outstanding. This is, to my knowledge, his first collaboration with the Palazetto Bru Zane, but I hope there will be more.

[Mark Thomas]

Fascinating, thanks. From what I've read, though, Berlioz didn't get very far in setting La Nonne Sanglante, just two Airs and 400 bars of a Duo (which he seems to have re-used in Les Troyens), so perhaps there won't be a great deal that's new.

[Alan Howe]

Sounds like barrel-scraping to me. Of course the bottom of Berlioz's barrel probably contains some gems...

[Christopher]

So let's take a "barrel is still a little bit full" rather than a "barrel is mostly empty" approach!

[Alan Howe]

I'll be interested, certainly...

[Gareth Vaughan]

What a splendid looking festival. I wish I were able to go to it - all of it!

[Mark Thomas]

I've said it before, I know, but we really should be hugely grateful to the Palazzetto Bru Zane people!

[Alan Howe]

Probably the most go-ahead opera people in the world...

[Gareth Vaughan]

And not just opera.

[jdperdrix]

Replay of the concert is available on France Musique https://www.francemusique.fr/emissions/le-concert-du-soir/visions-et-nonne-sanglante-a-la-cote-saint-andre-64139
Does anybody want me to upload it on mediafire?

[Christopher]

Yes please!!

[jdperdrix]

Just uploaded and waiting approval.