Il comprend très jeune, David Lemieux. Il le sait… C'est ce qui le pousse à aller étudier à l'Institut de protection contre les incendies du Québec. Là-bas, croit-il, il pourra être l'homme dont son défunt père aurait été fier.Ce qu'il ne sait pas, c'est qu'il y fera la rencontre de Nicolas Beaulieu. À la fin de ses études, il le perdra de vue et se résignera à ne plus jamais le revoir. Dans une caserne de Montréal, il deviendra le lieutenant David Lemieux. Et pendant des années, il essaiera d'éteindre les braises. Jusqu'à ce que la vie se charge de rallumer le feu…
Le Poème Harmonique, one of the most important early music ensembles in France, is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. For this occasion ALPHA CLASSICS has compiled twenty CDs from the catalogue in an attractively designed box. Award-winning recordings can be heard, some of them with an unusual repertoire from the Renaissance and Baroque periods. For loyal fans and those who want to become fans!
Offenbach's masterpiece, based on three stories by the German author E.T.A. Hoffmann, is both a three-act opera and a trilogy of taut, individual dramas, all rolled into one.This Geneva production from 2002 features baritone Marc Laho in the tour-de-force triple villain roles, with three different standout sopranos as the tales' three heroines. French producer Olivier Py caused an uproar among Geneva operagoers with a staging of Tales of Hoffmann that features full-frontal male and female nudity and simulated on-stage lesbian and heterosexual sex.Audiences were left "gasping, giggling or reduced to stunned silence" by the production, which interprets the popular opera as an indictment of capitalist society. Py adds several simulated sex acts, including one between the poet Hoffman and the life-sized doll Olympia as she sings her main aria. Soprano Patricia Petitbon is a major tour de force as she sings Olympia wearing only a transparent body stocking in a Venetian bordello.