Inferno - Création Visuelle

Dante in 360° – 10 years of the Auditorium

On 21 April 2017, Laurence Equilbey conducted the inaugural concert of La Seine Musicale at the helm of Insula orchestra. Ten years later, the orchestra celebrates this anniversary with a creation specially designed for the Auditorium Patrick-Devedjian: a new, custom-made circular structure that places the orchestra at the centre of the hall and suspends a screen above it. From every seat, the spectator is plunged into the heart of the show. The programme features Liszt's Dante-Symphonie – inspired by the Divine Comedy and driven by the dream of a total art that the composer wished to extend with spectacular images, unachievable in his time. This desire finds its fulfilment today in Mat Collishaw's immersive creation: a video projected onto the circular screen that transposes Dante's Inferno into our contemporary crises. Present throughout the programme, the voice of Magdalena Kožená – one of the most admired mezzo-sopranos of her generation – accompanies this journey through the Underworld. A foundational evening, at the crossroads of music, image, and sound architecture. This concert is performed on period instruments. Duration: 1h30 without interval

MUSIC PERFORMED

H. VON BINGENO quam mirabilis est

C. FRANCKNocturne

La Procession

LISZTDante-Symphonie

Psaume 137