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Les Talens Lyriques Christophe Rousset les talens lyriques christophe rousset saison Xvii-xviii la musique au parfum LES TALENS LYRIQUES 17 – 18 le de Et aussi And also bon goût l’ombre p.66 français à la French good taste p.25 lumière Les Talens From the shadows au collège Alceste into the light Les Talens at school p.43 les p.29 p.73 introduction fleurs Telemann Die Zauberflöte p.47 Nouveautés La musique fanées et la France au parfum p.30 descente discographiques A scent of music Faded flowers Lumière et Ombre p.15 p.48 aux enfers New releases eugénie briot Noël Royal p.81 p.5 p.31 Descending into Hell La Sultane Requiem de Campra p.59 p.19 p.49 édito Chants d’amour Retour p.32 La descente Vivons heureux, Lumière et Ombre d’Orphée aux enfers sur la saison c’est urgent ! p.20 p.63 Let’s enjoy life, 16 – 17 the time is now! la quête The high points of Les Nations La morte d’Orfeo christophe p.21 the 2016 – 2017 season rousset de la p.64 p.87 p.10 ambiva- pureté Les Apothéoses lences Faust p.22 The quest for purity p.65 Ambiguities p.51 Soutenir p.35 Les Talens Pygmalion Et in Arcadia Ego p.55 Lyriques p.39 Support Les Talens Lyriques p.95 Farinelli Amour et Mort primo uomo assoluto à Venise p.56 Calendrier p.40 Orphée & Eurydice de la saison p.57 Season calendar p.105 2 3 Lorsque l’on décrit notre relation à la la musique musique, on parle avant tout d’écoute. au parfum Mais la musique fait naître des sensations plurielles, qui ne cessent de correspondre les unes avec les autres. La musique ne s’explique L’âge baroque est un âge olfactif. Imaginons, pas, elle se ressent. Vous êtes-vous déjà en contrepoint de ses chefs-d’œuvre musicaux, une ligne mélodique olfactive dense : celle d’un demandé quelle odeur pourrait se dégager environnement riche en odeurs puissantes, de la chambre d’un roi, d’une œuvre de notamment celle des corps chaleureusement odorants des contemporains de ce temps. Couperin ou de l’Enfer d’Orphée et Eurydice ? Avant de ressentir la musique Si le Moyen Âge avait fait entrer le bain au nombre de ses plaisirs, la Renaissance développe des Talens Lyriques avec les oreilles et les une peur de l’eau qui bouleverse les règles de yeux, laissez votre nez plonger dans l’univers l’hygiène. On redoute l’eau, vectrice de maladies, qui peut s’infiltrer dans le corps par les pores de olfactif de notre saison 17–18. la peau et perturber l’équilibre des humeurs. Il s’opère ainsi un glissement vers une toilette Les rédacteurs de Nez, la revue olfactive, « sèche », reposant sur des frictions de produits ont prêté leur plume pour étendre le commentaire parfumés et le changement de linge. musical au monde des odeurs. Les créations parfumées, utilisées sous forme Eugénie Briot Cécile Clouet Olivier r.p. David Jeanne Doré de fumigations ou portées sur soi, jouent sur des Responsable des Musicienne de forma- Maître de Conférences Cofondatrice du site au- programmes de l’École tion, Cécile enseigne en chimie organique à parfum.com en 2007 et volumes olfactifs importants, et sur des notes riches de parfumerie Givaudan, la flûte traversière au l’Université de Versailles, de la revue Nez en 2016, Eugénie a consacré son Conservatoire à Rayon- il travaille sur le territoire Jeanne Doré a contribué et concentrées. Elles agissent comme autant de doctorat à la parfumerie nement Départemental olfactif et rédige une à démocratiser la critique masques susceptibles de dissimuler les insuffisances française du XIXe siècle et de Blois, et se produit part importante de la de parfum et participe à s’intéresse aux rapports en Europe en tant que rubrique Odorama de l’émergence d’une culture de l’hygiène. Sous le règne de Louis XIV, la gamme que le secteur de la soliste, chambriste ou la revue Nez, explorant olfactive indépendante, parfumerie entretient au sein de formations les odeurs par le spectre exigeante et accessible. olfactive des parfumeurs est principalement com- avec son patrimoine. orchestrales. Parallèle- scientifique. Passion- Elle a coécrit le livre posée d’essences de fleurs : roses, jacinthes, violettes, Parmi ses publications : ment, Cécile nourrit né de musique, il suit Les 111 parfums qu’il faut La Fabrique des parfums, depuis toujours une par ailleurs depuis de sentir avant de mourir jonquilles, narcisses, fleurs d’oranger, jasmin ou naissance d’une industrie passion pour les odeurs nombreuses années Les (Le Contrepoint, 2017). de luxe (Vendemiaire, et les parfums, et met Talens Lyriques. tubéreuses. Mais elle s’étend aussi à des matières 2015). aujourd’hui sa plume au premières importées d’Orient, d’Extrême-Orient service de Nez. 4 5 et du Nouveau Monde, comme le musc, la civette, La fin du XVIIIe siècle verra le retour à des pratiques le benjoin, le styrax, le girofle, la muscade, l’iris, d’hygiène où les jeux de l’eau retrouvent leur part. le labdanum, le santal, la cannelle… La cour de Cette évolution marque l’avènement d’une Versailles est bientôt tellement saturée d’odeurs que sensibilité nouvelle, valorisant la pureté de senteurs le roi lui-même ne les tolère plus : « Jamais homme, fines et légères aux dépends d’effluves plus opulents dit Saint-Simon, n’aima tant les odeurs et ne les et capiteux. craignit tant après, à force d’en avoir abusé. » L’âge baroque est révolu. Le règne de l’eau de La parfumerie de l’âge baroque ne se conçoit Cologne peut commencer. Sa ligne mélodique pas cependant du seul point de vue d’un usage simple, architecturée autour de notes d’agrumes, esthétique. Dans un monde pré-pasteurien, où se déploie de façon lisible et immédiate. Selon une la mauvaise odeur caractérise le miasme morbide, partition classique, en somme. les parfums sont autant de préservatifs ou de traitements contre la maladie. La limite entre A scent of music usages esthétiques et thérapeutiques ne se conçoit When we describe our relationship with music, dès lors pas. Ainsi l’Eau de la Reine de Hongrie, we mostly speak about listening. But music stirs un alcoolat de romarin, est un parfum autant qu’un up multiple sensations which all connect with one remède. C’est à elle que Charles Perrault confie another. Music is not explained, it is felt. Have you en premier lieu le soin de ranimer sa Belle au Bois ever wondered what smells might emanate from the dormant : « On vient de tous côtés, on jette de l’eau au king’s chamber, or one of Couperin’s pieces, or Orpheus visage de la Princesse, on la délace, on lui frappe dans and Eurydice’s underworld? Before you experience les mains, on lui frotte les tempes avec de l’eau de Talens Lyriques’ music with your ears and eyes, la Reine de Hongrie ; mais rien ne la faisait revenir. plunge your nose into the olfactory world of our Alors le Roi, qui était monté au bruit, se souvint de 2017-2018 season. la prédiction des Fées ». Parmi les autres compositions majeures du temps, l’Eau d’Ange, balsamique, à base The baroque era is an olfactory era. Alongside these de benjoin, storax, cannelle, girofle, citron et musical masterpieces, let’s imagine a heavily aromatic calamus. Le marc d’Eau d’Ange entre lui-même melody: an environment rich with strong odours, dans la formule de la poudre « à la Maréchale », particularly the warmly fragrant bodies of the people ainsi nommée parce que la Maréchale d’Aumont living in that time. se plaisait à la préparer. 6 7 Although people in the Middle Ages had added bathing to wake his Sleeping Beauty: “People came from every to their list of pleasures, by the Renaissance they had quarter, they threw water upon the face of the developed a fear of water because it broke their hygiene Princess, unlaced her dress, struck her on the palms rules. They were terrified of water because it carried of her hands and rubbed her temples with Eau de disease and could enter the body through the pores of la Reine de Hongrie; but nothing would bring her the skin and disturb the balance of the humours. There round. Then the King, who came up on hearing the was a move towards “dry” washing, which involved noise, remembered what the Fairies had foretold.” applying perfumed products and putting on fresh Other significant compositions of the time include clothes. These fragrant concoctions, which were either Eau d’Ange, a balsamic fragrance based on benzoin, burnt or carried on one’s person, used full-bodied storax, cinnamon, clove, lemon and calamus. The marc aromas and strong, intense notes. They acted like a mask of Eau d’Ange is also used to make “à la Maréchale” to conceal people’s poor hygiene. During the reign of powder, so named because the Maréchale d’Aumont Louis XIV, the perfumers’ range of aromatics was liked to prepare it. mainly made up of flower essences: rose, hyacinth, violet, daffodil, narcissus, orange blossom, jasmine and The end of the eighteenth century saw a return to tuberose. But it also extended to some basic materials hygienic practices in which water once again played a imported from the Middle East, the Far East and the role. With this shift came a new tendency for favouring New World, such as musk, civet, benzoin, styrax, clove, the purity of delicate, light scents over the more lavish nutmeg, iris, labdanum, sandalwood, cinnamon and so and heady aromas.
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