Name: Olivier Py on Dialogues des Carmélites by La Monnaie De Munt
Duration: 1 h 6 min 29 s
Description: Py outlines the thinking that underlies his staging of Poulenc’s opera, in a conversation with the author and philosopher Laurent de Sutter. Among other themes, he looks at the idea of a ‘heroic life’ and the question of commitment and its potential excesses.

During this lecture, Annelies Van Parys tackles a very specific way of listening. She feels the listening attitude we need when listening to new music deeply differs from what is required when lending an ear to tonal or modal tracks. She sets out to find strategies to cope with the unpredictable character of this new music, as well as means to decipher its language.
Van Parys also explains how she herself listens to sounds and how this translates into music. She appears to be extra receptive to certain tonalities and timbres, which have defined her own musical language.

Annelies Van Parys - The Art of Listening

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Introduction Dialogues des Carmélites en Français, par Olivia Wahnon de Oliveira.

Dialogues des Carmélites - Introduction par Olivia Wahnon de Oliveira

Py outlines the thinking that underlies his staging of Poulenc’s opera, in a conversation with the author and philosopher Laurent de Sutter. Among other themes, he looks at the idea of a ‘heroic life’ and the question of commitment and its potential excesses.

Olivier Py on Dialogues des Carmélites

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La Monnaie is the federal opera house of Belgium, residing in Brussels, the European capital, with an international reputation for producing opera's, concerts, recitals & dance.

Olivier Py on Dialogues des Carmélites

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