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Festival 2024 extraits

Festival 2022 excerpts

Festival 2022 excerpts

Festival 2022

Ricordo

composition and performance Anne Marie Fijal

Opera

The kiss

Libretto Robert Walser - Music Anne-Marie Fijal (state commission -1998)

Musical direction Philippe Nahon - Directed by Hans Engel - Set and costumes Gavin Semple - Lights Linda Babins.

Mel Braun (baritone) - Marc Feldman (bassoon) - Peter Parthun (cello) - Maya Kyoko from Forest Daryl Strain, Ralitza Tcholakova (violins) - Trish Beret, Scott Fethorn, and Peter Pavlovsky (double basses).

 

The Kiss is a chamber opera for solo baritone and 9 instruments and occasional sound.

The three groups are composed of a trio of violins, a bassoon and a cello and a trio of double basses.

For his libretto, Fijal adapted the short story The Kiss by Swiss / German writer Robert Walser (1878-1956).

World Premiere August 1998 - At the invitation of the Contemporary Music Festival - Theater Arts, Banff Center for the Arts. Canada.

Stage

Flyer Mehr Licht

Mehr Licht

2 plays by Robert Walser- Snow White & the Pond

directed by Pascaline Ponti

La Criée de Marseille - Théâtre de l'Aquarium Paris

stage music: AM Fijal

INTERLUDE MEHR LICHTFIJAL
00:00 / 05:33

Jean Racine

Pascaline Ponti Phèdre de Jean Racine : performance solo

"Alone on stage, Pascaline Ponti plays the Racinian score with an extraordinary talent, which gives flesh to the verb and makes it heard with a singular acuity. In a breath, she moves from one character to another with skill. The inflection of the voice and the timbre change, some details also in the expression of the face or the posture of the body, and immediately the relay takes place. It is magnificent. The viewer is never lost and grasps the tragedy by the power of the Alexandrian. "This loneliness frees me from identification. The roles, here, are discarded in favor of the verb. The Alexandrine becomes the sole protagonist of the drama. The voice changes tone. Where is this talking about? Who is speaking? I hear a voice, that of Racine, a unique but haunted voice. I keep myself in a state of availability. I am a transitory abode. I'm not grabbing anything. Phèdre, it's not me. I am the passionate and disinterested interpreter. "

she confided in our columns. The result is largely up to its ambition,both very lofty and humble.

In supple pants and a T-shirt, supported by a few lights, Pascaline Ponti achieves an exceptional performance, of astonishing strength. "
Agnes Santi La Terrasse

Cinema

Rejuvenated rising suns
documentary film by Pascaline Ponti 21 '
 
Be up. Defy the fall. Set up alone or with others? Against what ? A journey with the philosopher Jacques Darriulat, Ewen Giquel, young tightrope walker, and Karin Oberndorfer, yogist.

Karin Oberndorfer
Musée Rodin
Jacques Dariullat
"Rejuvenated suns rising"  documentary Pascaline Ponti

PERFORMANCES

TENEBRAE

Paul Celan

Tenebrae  Paul Celan
composition and interpretation piano AM Fijal
voice: Pascaline Ponti
carte blanche "A l'Improviste" France Musique

Celan_tenebraeFIJAL
00:00 / 09:10

RECORDING

SOURDES CLAMEURS

Schumann  Kreisleriana op.16

Fijal              Fragments

Beethoven  sonate 32 op.111

Fijal              Palimpseste

double Album: Beethoven/Fijal/Schumann

Release September 2024

RICORDO

Triptych for piano

1-Ricordo

    acoustic piano and recorded piano

2- Fragments III

  piano solo

3- Ricordiamo

piano duo

AM Fijal / Maria Canyigueral

  Fijal / Maria Canyigueral

CD Liszt: Anne Marie Fijal piano

LISZT

Sonate en si mineur

Lugubre gondola I

Lugubre gondola II

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