The Lunchtime Concerts

Tuesday 13 December 2022 – 12h30pm

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Karen Vourc’h et Susan Manoff figurent parmi les chanteuses et pianistes les plus érudites et fantaisistes à la fois de la scène internationale. Deux qualités précieuses pour nous révéler, entre aurores boréales et soleil de minuit, les merveilles de la mélodie nordique !

Concert du soir
Munch en Musique 

Jeudi 12 janvier 2023 – 20h

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Deux des plus éminents musiciens norvégiens de notre temps se retrouvent autour du répertoire de sonates et duos pour violoncelle et piano, avec des œuvres de leur compatriote Edvard Grieg, mais aussi des compositeurs qu’Edvard Munch put entendre entre l’Europe du Nord et Paris.

Au tournant du siècle, Munch paracheva en effet sa formation entre la capitale française et l’Allemagne, où il fut en contact avec les tendances les plus opposées dans tous les domaines artistiques. La polarité impressionnisme – expressionnisme constitue sans doute une simplification, mais la fluidité inquiète d’un Fauré ou d’une Nadia Boulanger ressortent assez naturellement du premier, tandis que le monde flamboyant et tourmenté de Grieg et Sibelius rappellent le second – ce qui n’exclut pas des plages de profonde intériorité. 

Cancelled

The Lunchtime Concerts

Tuesday 17 January 2023 – 12.30pm

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

Artistic Director of the prestigious Stavanger Chamber Music Festival, Christian Ihle Hadland is also one of the most adventurous pianists in the Nordic world. Here he reveals some of Munch's secret inspirations.

The Lunchtime Concerts

Tuesday 14 February 2023 – 12.30pm

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium niveau -2

It was across the Rhine that the young French mezzo Florence Losseau first made her mark, between Munich and Linz where she completed her training and took her first steps on stage. The American pianist Elenora Pertz, who came to Vienna to finish her studies, also found a home there.

The Lunchtime Concerts

Tuesday 7 March 2023 – 12.30pm

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium level-2

Adam Laloum is one of France’s most singular and mysterious pianists, reinterpreting the great pages of the repertoire with a mixture of fever and analytical precision. Between German romanticism and the Spanish flame, is there a French synthesis?

The Lunchtime Concerts

Tuesday 4 April 2023 – 12.30pm

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium level-2

Théotime Langlois de Swarte, one of the most brilliant violinists of the new generation, and his accompanist Tanguy de Williencourt on piano, resurrect the alternately light and serious world of the Parisian salons and concert halls of the Belle Époque.

Evening Concert

Thursday 20 April 2023 – 8.00pm

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium level-2

An unexpected encounter centering on Franz Schubert between Rosemary Standley, singer of the blues-rock band Moriarty, and the adventurous instrumentalists of the Ensemble Contraste, in a staging by Vincent Huguet which also represents a return to the sources of this repertoire.

Evening Concert

Thursday 11 May 2023 – 8.00pm / Sunday 14 May 2023 – 3.00pm

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium level-2

An exhibition devoted to Manet and Degas would not be complete without calling forth the art of dance. This creation, conceived by the duo of dancers from the Paris Opera and the pianist Claire-Marie Le Guay, will honor Ravel as well as the two great painters.

The Lunchtime Concerts

Tuesday 30 May 2023 – 12.30pm

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium level-2

The Quatuor Parisii and pianist François Dumont have been inspired by Manet's Spanish paintings, evoking the world of bullfighting, to pay homage to composer Joaquin Turina, himself fascinated by this world of “gold and blood.”

Evening Concert

Thursday 8 June 2023 – 8.00pm

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium level-2

Patricia Petibon and pianist Susan Manoff pay tribute to the scandalous Déjeuner sur l'herbe [Luncheon on the Grass] by Édouard Manet in a performance that entwines passion and abandonment.

Evening Concert

Thursday 15 June 2023 – 8.00pm

Musée d'Orsay. Auditorium level-2

Her extraordinary dramatic temperament joins forces with her majestic and sensual queenly bearing, the beauty of her warm mezzo tone with her consummate art of musical narration: Stéphanie d'Oustrac sets French song on fire and will be a Scheherazade of anthology, there’s no doubt about it!