INDEFINITO
Of flesh and marble
Indefinito offers a multifaceted vision of desire through the eyes of unparalleled masters of musical, poetic, and sculptural art. Led by the magnetic voice of soprano Marie-Laure Garnier, Les Apaches reveal a beauty that is both unsettling and captivating, echoing the Michelangelo & Rodin exhibition – two artistic geniuses who made the human body their boundless territory.
The works of Wagner, Monteverdi, Debussy, and Leleu meet the words of Baudelaire, Sappho, and Plotinus… so many voices that answer and brush against one another, united by a common quest: to sublimate desire, sensuality, and ecstasy. Indefinito plays with the blurring of boundaries, between flesh and marble, finished forms and fragments in the making, Baroque music and contemporary compositions orchestrated by Fabien Touchard, between acoustic and electronic elements.
A heartfelt performance, co-produced by the Louvre Museum.
“Indefinito is typical of the identity of the ensemble Les Apaches: it touches on everything, combines what seems contradictory or heterogeneous, and disregards the boundaries between eras and disciplines. It frees itself from everything except the essential: to evoke a moving emotion.” – Jean-Christophe Le Toquin (Res Musica)
PROGRAM
Chapter I – Romantic Desire
Touchard
Poesia elettronica n°1: « Je n'aimais pas encore... »
Debussy/Touchard
Syrinx – with electronics
Monteverdi/Touchard
Canto del Desio: Lettera amorosa
Touchard
Poesia elettronica n°2: “I love the sensual…”
Debussy/Gousset
Chansons de Bilitis : La chevelure
Chapter II – The Union
Fabien Touchard
Poesia elettronica n°3: « Et son bras et sa jambe... »
Monteverdi/Touchard
Canto del Desio: Fanfare-Toccata
Debussy
Danse profane
Fabien Touchard
Poesia elettronica n°4: « Je te contemple...»
Monteverdi/Touchard
Canto del Desio: Pur ti miro
Debussy/Gousset
Chansons de Bilitis : La flûte de Pan
Chapter III – The Tear
Touchard
Poesia elettronica n°5: “Cruelty has a human heart…”
Monteverdi/Touchard
Canto del Desio: Lament della ninfa
Jeanne Leleu - Michelangelo's Sonnets
Fuyez, amants, fuyez
Chapter IV – The Grief of Love
Touchard
Poesia elettronica n°6: “Come, let me sing into your ear…”
Wagner/Louati
Im Treibhaus
Fabien Touchard
Poesia elettronica n°7 - « Couronnes de feuillage...»
Debussy
Danse sacrée
Touchard
Poesia elettronica n°8 : « Sous les feuilles noires des lauriers ...»
Debussy/Gousset – Songs of Bilitis
Le tombeau des Naïades
Wagner/Louati
Wesendonck Lieder: Träume
Chapter V – The Elevation
Touchard
Poesia elettronica no. 9: « Y a-t-il encore une beauté supérieure ? »
Wagner/Louati
Wesendonck Lieder: Der Engel
Touchard
Poesia elettronica No. 10: « Que j'ai commencé tard à vous aimer... »
Touchard
L'Ascenzione
World Creation
CAST
Les Apaches! (16 musicians)
Julien Masmondet, musical direction
Marie-Laure Garnier, soprano
Marie Laforge, flute
Coline Jaget, harp
Fabien Touchard, compositions
Gordon and Sarah Silverblatt-Buser , stage direction and video creation
Philippe Hattat , piano
Damien Pouvreau , theorbo
Olivier Peigné and Matilda Kime , actors for the readings of texts from Poesia elettronica n.1 to 10
Featuring Alexandra Drotz Ruhn (voice)
Co-production: Louvre Museum
With the support of the agnès b. endowment fund
