Inferno

H. VON BINGEN
O quam mirabilis est

C. FRANCK
Nocturne
La Procession

LISZT
Dante Symphony
Psalm 137

Dante at 360° — 10th Anniversary of the Auditorium

On 21 April 2017, Laurence Equilbey conducted the inaugural concert of La Seine Musicale at the head of Insula orchestra. Ten years later, the orchestra celebrates this anniversary with a creation designed especially for the Auditorium Patrick-Devedjian: a new circular structure, custom-built, which places the orchestra at the centre of the hall and suspends a screen above it. From every seat, the audience is plunged into the heart of the spectacle.

On the programme, Liszt’s Dante Symphony—inspired by the Divine Comedy and driven by the dream of a total art form that the composer wished to extend with spectacular images, unrealisable in his time. This dream finds its fulfilment today in the immersive creation by Mat Collishaw: a video projected onto the circular screen that transposes Dante’s Inferno into our contemporary crises.

Present throughout the programme, the voice of Magdalena Kožená—one of the most admired mezzo-sopranos of her generation—accompanies this descent through the Underworld. A landmark evening at the crossroads of music, image, and sonic architecture.

This concert is performed on period instruments.