After a long period of absence, the sacred music festival returns to Nice. The opportunity, twenty years later, to honor the death of Abbé Navarre who was canon of the Sainte Réparate Cathedral in Nice and musical director of the master’s degree. The first concert will mirror Gabriel Fauré’s requiem and Olivier dos Santos’ Missa Brevis 2021.
Born from confinement, this mass symbolizes the composer’s fascination with the organ repertoire and the grace of human voices. For the second concert, it is Jérôme Correas who will continue his collaboration with the musicians of the Philharmonic Orchestra by exploring the repertoire of Bach’s time and that of his brilliant contemporary, Handel. The first work written simultaneously in the three languages of the three great monotheistic religions, Latin, Hebrew and Arabic, Laurent Couson’s Requiem XIX, which presents the theme of the myth of Babel, will be honored for this third concert.
The festival of sacred music will finally close with Noah’s Ark by Benjamin Britten, a participatory opera that the project managers, Éric Oberdorff and Frédéric Deloche, will treat on the oh so resonant topic of the environment, for young and old.
Tuesday June 20, 2023 at 8 p.m., mass by Olivier dos Santos: with soprano Elena Golomeova, alto Cristina Greco, tenor Suhuan Jin and baritone Florent Chamard. Then the Requiem, Op. 48 by Gabriel Fauré, with soprano Virginie Maraskin, baritone Thierry Delaunay, under the musical direction of Giulio Magnanini, organ Roberto Galfione, Choeur de l’Opéra de Nice. Thursday June 22 at 8 p.m., Bach and Co / Bach-Handel: the impossible encounter. Water Music, Suite N°1 by Georg Friedrich Handel, Suite N°3 for orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach. Followed by Water Music, Suite N°2 by Georg Friedrich Haendel, under the musical direction of Jérôme Correas, Orchester Philharmonique de Nice Friday 23 June at 8 p.m., The Book of Life and the Requiem by Laurent Couson, under the musical direction of the composer, with soprano Melody Louledjian, the Nice Opera Choir, Nice Philharmonic Orchestra
Sunday June 25 at 11 a.m., Solemn Thanksgiving Mass by Bernard Navarre, Conducted by Giulio Magnanini, Chœur philharmonique de Nice, Orchester philharmonique de Nice, free admission
