FULL PASSION (Dusapin) Perm 2024 Teodor Currentzis, Natalya Smirnova, Sergei Godin, Kirill Nifontov
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Passion
- Composer: Dusapin Pascal
- Libretto: Pascal Dusapin, in collaboration with Rita de Letteriis Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Perm, Russia, Diaghilev Festival
- Recorded: June 29, 2024
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Natalya Smirnova, Sergei Godin, Kirill Nifontov
- Conductor: Teodor Currentzis
- Orchestra: musicAeterna
- Chorus: musicAeterna choir
- Ballet: musicAeterna Dance
- Choreographer: Anastasia Peshkova
- Stage Director: Anna Guseva
- Stage Designer: Yulia Orlova
- Costume Designer: Anna Chistova
- Lighting Designer: Ivan Vinogradov
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Diaghilev Festival
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, rusubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Pascal Dusapin studied composition with Olivier Messiaen, Iannis Xenakis and Franco Donatoni, and also studied musicology, art history, plastic arts and aesthetics at the Sorbonne. Starting with virtuoso and hyperactive compositions, he gradually softened his style, arriving at simplicity, harmony and self-restraint. In his mature works there are no percussion instruments (except timpani) and schematic forms; their place is taken by the feeling of music as a flow, flexible metamorphoses of sound moments. His soft modernist language, enriched with the influences of French folklore, brought him fame as one of the most successful and sought-after composers of modern France.
Passion is Dusapin’s seventh opera. It was commissioned by the Aix-en-Provence festival and first staged there in 2009. Ten years later, music critics from The Guardian newspaper ranked Passion 14th on their list of the most important works of the 21st century. The plot of the opera is based on the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice. The nameless hero and heroine conduct a dialogue on the border of life and death; the entire hour and a half opera is the plot of the end of a relationship, a moment of separation stretched out in time, a stopped moment. In the score, Dusapin’s authorial style is emphasized by the influences of Monteverdi and the French Baroque. The music, which the composer himself describes as an “emotional journey,” flexibly follows the dynamics of feelings: joy, fear, desire, pain, ecstasy, sadness, anger and love replace each other. An integral part of Passion’s productions is also plastic – as in early Baroque operas, dance here interacts with singing and merges with it in a single ensemble.