Vanité(s)

Vanité(s)

Octonaires on the World's Vanity and Inconstancy

« What is the world, then? A wind, a flower, a ripple. » - Antoine de Chandieu

CAST

Opéra de Limoges Chorus - Musical Direction, Edward Ananian-Cooper

Conception, Jean-Philippe Clarac & Olivier Delœuil

Video and Graphic design, Julien Roques & Benjamin Juhel

Artistic collaboration, Lodie Kardouss

Dramaturgy, Luc Bourrousse

PRODUCTION

Opéra de Limoges

ABOUT

Inspired by the Covid-19 sanitary crisis, this book enriched with 12 short films revisits, in a resolutely contemporary style, the art of the spiritual song stemming from Reformation poetry during the French Renaissance. The artists of the Chœur de l’Opéra de Limoges revive a selection ofoctonaires set to music by Claude Le Jeune, Claude Goudimel and Paschal de l’Estocart, all published between 1565 and 1606.
The refined polyphony of these short, eight-verse poems, always sung a cappella, invites us to meditate in music over the vanity of existence, the illusions and deceptive pleasures of everyday life. Their bittersweet poetry inspires a collection of short movies, all shot in Limoges during the second lockdown and sanitary restrictions of the autumn of 2020.

A musical object of a new kind, between poem, short film and musical reverie. A book enriched with spiritual songs, like a poetic machine to question our present times.

 

Vanités Clarac Deloeuil Pascal de L'Estocart Antoine Goudimel Claude Le Jeune Chandieu
Vanités Clarac Deloeuil Pascal de L'Estocart Antoine Goudimel Claude Le Jeune Chandieu
Vanités Clarac Deloeuil Pascal de L'Estocart Antoine Goudimel Claude Le Jeune Chandieu
Vanités Clarac Deloeuil Pascal de L'Estocart Antoine Goudimel Claude Le Jeune Chandieu
Vanités Clarac Deloeuil Pascal de L'Estocart Antoine Goudimel Claude Le Jeune Chandieu
Vanités Clarac Deloeuil Pascal de L'Estocart Antoine Goudimel Claude Le Jeune Chandieu
Vanités Clarac Deloeuil Pascal de L'Estocart Antoine Goudimel Claude Le Jeune Chandieu
Vanités Clarac Deloeuil Pascal de L'Estocart Antoine Goudimel Claude Le Jeune Chandieu
Vanités Clarac Deloeuil Pascal de L'Estocart Antoine Goudimel Claude Le Jeune Chandieu