Bontemps - La Flambeau
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Label: Atma Classique
Cat No: ACD22880
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 12th April 2024
Contents
Artists
Suzanne TaffotCatherine Daniel
Paul Williamson
Brandon Coleman
Orchestre classique de Montreal
Conductor
Alain TrudelWorks
La FlambeauArtists
Suzanne TaffotCatherine Daniel
Paul Williamson
Brandon Coleman
Orchestre classique de Montreal
Conductor
Alain TrudelAbout
La Flambeau was premiered on 7 February 2023 at Montreal's Salle Pierre-Mercure with Suzanne Taffot, Catherine Daniel, Paul Williamson and Brandon Coleman and the Orchestre classique de Montréal, conducted by Alain Trudel. Set in Haiti, the libretto for La Flambeau was adapted by Bontemps himself.
La Flambeau tells the story of a dysfunctional couple, Monsieur (a narcissistic, ambitious intellectual obsessed with the ideals of the Republic) and Mademoiselle (who talks to her dead parents), who hire a working-class housewife. Through imposed dogma and deceptive behaviour, Monsieur abuses Mademoiselle. After a trial and a surreal confession, Monsieur is condemned through a kind of popular justice to become a zombie at the service of all.
The music, woven from accessible melodies and imbued with Afro-Haitian elements, uses thematic cycles that intensify with the plot. "From a musical point of view, Bontemps' work adopts the ascetic style of chamber opera: the four characters express themselves in an unadorned melodic language, chanted to the rhythm of the spoken word and a string orchestra supported by the light percussion of a pair of maracas," says musicologist Claude Dauphin about La Flambeau.
Born in Port-au-Prince, David Bontemps is now based in Montreal.
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