Destouches/ Ombres/ Blanchard - Semiramis Fulfilled By FYE whose music has been performed

whose music has been performed by Renee Fleming

Benedict Kloeckner has been championed by such maestros as Daniel Barenboim and Sir Simon Rattle

glittering and asymmetrical rhythms stand in stark opposition to slow ostinato figurations

phlegmatic/winter

Destouches/ Ombres/ Blanchard - Semiramis Fulfilled By FYE whose music has been performedSmiramis tortured by Zoroastre's spells, violence, incest, murder and magnificence: this is one of the most astonishing tragdies lyriques! It's composer Destouches led an extraordinary life: a missionary in Siam, then a Musketeer in the Royal Army, he finally became a musician and trained with Campra. His first operatic work, Iss, triumphed in 1697 in the presence of Louis XIV. Twenty years later, his last tragdie lyrique, Smiramis (1718), is of great