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Songs of love and death
Songs of love and death
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Songs of love and death
25.26 SEASON /Rachael Wilson, Katia Ledoux, Virginie Déjos
Sunday, 28 September 2025
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16:00
Main AuditoriumLille Opera
Liebestod is the radical idea that love reaches its ultimate fulfilment in death. In 1945, Olivier Messiaen – who was obsessed with the legend of Tristan and Isolde – composed a cycle entitled Harawi, inspired by Quechua love songs, which invariably end in the lovers’ death. He recognized in them a kinship with the final Liebestod from Wagner’s opera. He blends Andean folklore and surrealist poetry in hypnotic music to express the cruel yet sublime fate of love beyond death.
In Shéhérazade, Maurice Ravel also projects extreme representations of love onto a foreign culture. His three melodies evoke spellbinding sensuality and forbidden passion in an imagined ‘Orient’.
Richard Wagner / Franz Liszt Isoldens Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, arr. for piano (1867) Maurice RavelShéhérazade (1903) Olivier MessiaenHarawi (1945)
Rachael Wilson, Katia Ledoux mezzo-soprano Virginie Déjos piano
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