CONCERT LYRICAL CLUB MONTPELLIER
About the Montpellier Lyrical club Concert
HISTORY
In 1971, a few opera-loving friends from Marseilles got together to share the same passion for opera and to create a place to meet and exchange ideas on this art form which brings together music, voice, dance, poetry and theatre,
voice, dance, poetry and theatre.
Its purpose is to
- To bring together people who love opera and wish to become involved in this field.
- To ensure the defence and development of opera as well as all cultural and artistic activities.
- To promote the necessary actions to make opera known, in particular to young people.
To achieve these objectives, the Lyric Club organises
- Conferences, debates with audio and video animation on opera works, librettos, composers etc.
- Analyses of works and recordings
- Dinners with the participation of artists invited by the Opéra de Marseille
- In collaboration with the Marseille Opera, tributes to artists who have or have not retired
from the stage:
René Bianco - Robert Massard - Mady Mesplé - Gabriel Bacquier - Patricia Ciofi - Alain Vanzo - Hasmik Papian - Andrée Esposito - Alain Fondary, etc...
and more recently in 2015, Leo Nucci
In addition to the opera season of the Opéra de Marseille, we also travel outside Marseille in search of new opera productions or programmes of particular interest because of their staging or interpretation. We have thus attended prestigious performances with great international interpreters such as Mario Del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Luciano Pavarotti, José Van Dam, Leo Nucci, Placido Domingo, Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Juan Diego Florez, Patricia Ciofi, Thomas Hampson, Sophie Koch, Marcello Alvarez, Cecilia Bartoli, Eva-Maria Westbroek, Bryn Terfel, Michaël Spyres, Olga Peretyatko, etc. in : London - New York - Barcelona - Madrid - Berlin - Moscow - Saint Petersburg - Munich - Dresden - Rome - Milan - Turin - Naples - Venice etc.
For nearly forty years, our Association has been striving to attract the greatest number of enthusiasts, even neophytes, to share the love of the lyrical art that embellishes our lives every day.
At a time when ecology demands that we leave a clean planet as a legacy, let us also transmit cultural and artistic values,
of which opera is an integral part, that have grown our civilisation.