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Label: Accord
Format: 2 x CD, Album
Country: France
Released: 1991
Genre: Classical
Style: Contemporary, Modern

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Pascal Georges Dusapin (born 29 May 1955) is a French composer. His music is marked by its microtonality, tension, and energy.

A pupil of Iannis Xenakis and Franco Donatoni and an admirer of Varèse, Dusapin studied at the University of Paris I and Paris VIII during the 1970s.

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Roméo et Juliette (1985–88)
According to Ian Pace, Dusapin's first opera, Roméo et Juliette (1985–88) is the "pivotal work" in the composer's career, for it is in this work that he first "properly" combines his ideas of narrative to the theatrical realm.

Pugin views Dusapin's opera as a return to the "more fruitful" style of Niobé, and cites Dusapin's vocal pieces Mimi (1986–87), Il-Li-Ko (1987), and Anacoluthe (1987) as study pieces for the creation of his first opera, particularly for the setting of the French language. Anderson, meanwhile, notes the greater amount of lyricism that exists in Dusapin's opera as compared to his earlier works.

All three authors seem to agree that the opera is a noteworthy point in Dusapin's compositional career.

The libretto, written by Olivier Cadiot, is divided into nine numbers: the first four dealing with events before the revolution, the final four involving events after the revolution, and the fifth and central number being the revolution itself.

This central movement is the only one played purely by the orchestra. The opera focuses not only on Roméo and Juliette, but also on their doubles, Roméo 2 and Juliette 2, who appear before the revolution and seem to symbolize "an expansion of their personalities."

The opera also involves a chorus that comments on the action and a vocal quartet that serves as an intermediary and teaches Roméo and Juliette revolutionary concepts.

Finally, there is the character of Bill, who teaches Roméo and Juliette to sing, but who himself only speaks until the eighth number, when he at last sings as well.

In the latter half of the work, the characters discuss the possibility of creating a real opera, only to discover the "impossibility of opera, the story and even language itself", and the music breaks down into microtonality and fragmentation.

The opera was premiered on 10 June 1989 in Montpellier, France.

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Roméo et Juliette, Opéra en neuf numéros de Pascal Dusapin sur un texte d'Olivier Cadiot

Conductor – Luca Pfaff
Orchestra – Orchestre Symphonique Du Rhin-Mulhouse

Chorus – Groupe Vocal De France

Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Françoise Kubler - Juliette 1
Bass-Baritone Vocals – Nicholas Isherwood - Romeo 1

Soprano Vocals – Cyrille Gerstenhaber - Juliette 2
Bass-Baritone Vocals – Julien Combey - Romeo 2

Clarinet – Armand Angster

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Cd 1
1-01 Prologue 14:30
1-02 Le debut 9:37
1-03 Le matin 4:24
1-04 Avant 15:23

Cd 2
2-01 La revolution 5:38
2-02 Apres 6:09
2-03 Le soir 12:35
2-04 La fin 7:45
2-05 Epilogue 1:40

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MUSICA CLASSICA - CONTEMPORANEA - MICROTONAL