In July, Paulina makes her Festival d’opéra de Québec in the production Monteverdi: The Birth of Opera.
There is a fascinating turning point in the history of music: the moment when words, poetry, and song come together with a new intensity, giving rise to an entirely new art form. This program invites us to revisit that moment.
In Monteverdi’s work, human passions take on a striking new presence. The text becomes more immediate, more embodied; the vocal line follows the natural inflections of speech, and the music no longer merely accompanies emotion, but summons it into being. Through madrigals and landmark works, this concert leads us back to that crossroads where opera gradually began to emerge.
Jean-Marie Zeitouni brings together leading voices from Quebec and Canada, joined by instrumentalists from Les Violons du Roy, in a staging by Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière. A lively and deeply moving evening, bringing us as close as possible to the birth of opera.