FULL Les sept dernières paroles du Christ en croix (Dubois) Limoges 2021 Hélène Carpentier, Kévin Amiel, Alexandre Duhamel
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Les sept dernières paroles du Christ en croix
- Composer: DuBois Theodore
- Libretto:
- Venue & Opera Company: Opera de Limoges, France
- Recorded: April 4, 2021
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Hélène Carpentier, Kévin Amiel, Alexandre Duhamel
- Conductor: Edward Ananian-Cooper
- Orchestra: Orchestre de l'Opéra de Limoges
- Chorus: Chœur de l'Opéra de Limoges
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
In its original version of 1867 for small orchestra, organ, choir and soloists reconstituted by A. Vigneron (ed. Diem).
Painful subject among all: the veneration of the seven words pronounced by Jesus crucified, taken from the four gospels, which became a subject of meditation, of spiritual exercise. This oratorio is undoubtedly Théodore Dubois’ best-known work. The work, commissioned in 1867 by the parish priest of Sainte-Clotilde in Paris for Good Friday, was first of all intended for a small instrumental and vocal formation, using the usual means of a Parisian parish of the second half of the 19th century, but the oratorio was so successful that it was quickly re-orchestrated for a full orchestra to be played at Pasdeloup concerts in Paris and around the world.
The original score having disappeared, it was necessary to reconstitute the work with a whole research work to finally propose this initial version.