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Gabrielle Philiponet

2024

La Songeuse

Voyage d'Automne (création mondiale)

Bruno Mantovani

Venue

Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse

Staging

Marie Lambert-Le Bihan

Conductor

Pascal Rophé

Cast

Pierre-Yves Pruvot, Marcel Jouhandeau ; Stephan Genz, Gerhard Heller ; Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Ramon Fernandez ; Vincent Le Texier ; Jacques Chardonne ; Yann Beuron, Pierre Drieu La Rochelle ; Jean-Christophe Lanièce, Robert Brasillach ; William Shelton, Wolfgang Göbst ; Enguerrand De Hys, Hans Baumann ; Gabrielle Philiponet, La Songeuse

Reviews

Forum Opéra - Thierry Verger

This is, dramatically and musically, one of the highlights of the play. It is Gabrielle Philiponet who plays this Dreamer and who carries this role with an indescribable force.
She grabs our attention from her first appearance before the voice, perfectly placed, never put in difficulty, including by the German language, takes hold of us. Her three
appearances (the first is silent, the second is limited to the first stanza of the poem, which she will take up in full in the great scene of III) show us a woman dressed all in white, as if hovering above what we guess is the field of the ruins of our humanity.

Resmusica - Charlotte Saulneron

They unite again to make appear, like a waking dream, the only female voice of this opera, Gabrielle Philiponet (La Songeuse), delivering with her soprano voice the poetry of Gertrude Kolmar, gassed at Auschwitz in 1943. The lied deployed by the singer, just like her two other interventions, reveals itself to be a real moment of respite in this stifling atmosphere, like a bright light at the end of a long tunnel. On stilts, the soprano maintains with power and seated, a haggard but living humanity.

Le Monde (Marie-Aude Roux)

The soprano Gabrielle Philiponet deploys the three stanzas of a magnificent Lied, in the tradition of Brahms, Wagner or Mahler, while, on the stage, floats a luminous circle. The dawn of a world after the curse, where the ring would have joined the peaceful waters of the Vater Rhein

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