Pierre Boulez | News Music & Opera https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/tag/pierre-boulez-en Thu, 24 Apr 2025 09:01:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Pierre Boulez in Baden-Baden Too https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/pierre-boulez-in-baden-baden-too Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:00:39 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=16329 The year 2025 is undoubtedly a Pierre Boulez Year, marking the centenary of his birth. He was a great composer, an influential conductor, as well as a teacher and philosopher. Wednesday, March 26, 2025, marks the exact 100th anniversary of his birth. On this occasion, the city of Baden-Baden, where he is buried, and the […]

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]]> The year 2025 is undoubtedly a Pierre Boulez Year, marking the centenary of his birth. He was a great composer, an influential conductor, as well as a teacher and philosopher. Wednesday, March 26, 2025, marks the exact 100th anniversary of his birth. On this occasion, the city of Baden-Baden, where he is buried, and the Festspielhaus will pay tribute to him with a full-day birthday celebration. The forecourt of the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden will be renamed Place Pierre Boulez, and in the evening, a musical birthday celebration will take place, featuring live discussions, film excerpts, and, of course, music! Throughout the season, numerous Boulez concerts will follow, including performances by the Ensemble intercontemporain and renowned artists such as Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Antonio Pappano with the London Symphony Orchestra, and François-Xavier Roth, returning to lead the SWR Symphonieorchester.

 

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Pierre Boulez (c) Archives nationales

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]]> The Year of Boulez Begins in France and around the World! https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/the-year-of-boulez-begins-in-france-and-around-the-world Fri, 10 Jan 2025 08:30:46 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=15943 Born on March 26, 1925, and a towering figure in contemporary music, Pierre Boulez passed away on January 5, 2016, at the age of 90. In this 2025 season, when he would have turned 100, the French Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Philharmonie of Paris, is launching “L’année Boulez.” The general curatorship of […]

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]]> Born on March 26, 1925, and a towering figure in contemporary music, Pierre Boulez passed away on January 5, 2016, at the age of 90.

In this 2025 season, when he would have turned 100, the French Ministry of Culture, in collaboration with the Philharmonie of Paris, is launching “L’année Boulez.” The general curatorship of this celebration has been entrusted to Laurent Bayle, a close associate of Boulez and the former director of the Philharmonie de Paris.

Numerous events have been announced in France, as well as in Germany and Switzerland, where the composer also built a significant part of his career. “L’année Boulez” is already enriched with a rich program of concerts focusing on three priorities: the creation of new works, commissions for contemporary composers, and reaching new audiences by combining Pierre Boulez’s music with other disciplines in unique venues. Laurent Bayle detailed this during a press conference held at the Ministry of Culture in Paris, on January 6.

 

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Pierre Boulez – c – Maxppp – EFE

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]]> Pierre Boulez Reborn in Baden-Baden https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/pierre-boulez-in-baden-baden Mon, 16 Dec 2024 09:17:51 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=15722 The renowned conductor and celebrated composer Pierre Boulez would have turned 100 in 2025. Thus, a “Boulez Year” is on the horizon, already making waves in Germany, particularly in Baden-Baden, the musical city of the Black Forest. Boulez lived and worked there for more than 60 years and was named an honorary citizen of the […]

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]]> The renowned conductor and celebrated composer Pierre Boulez would have turned 100 in 2025.

Thus, a “Boulez Year” is on the horizon, already making waves in Germany, particularly in Baden-Baden, the musical city of the Black Forest. Boulez lived and worked there for more than 60 years and was named an honorary citizen of the town. The composer’s grave is also located in Baden-Baden‘s main cemetery.

An anniversary program is, of course, planned at the Festspielhaus, with a highlight scheduled for Wednesday, March 26, 2025, the centenary of his birth. The International Whitsun Festival PRÉSENCE, taking place from May 31 to June 9, 2025, will also be dedicated to him.

 

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Pierre Boulez – c – Uwe Arens DG

 

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]]> Pierre Boulez Returns to Paris https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/pierre-boulez-returns-to-paris Fri, 29 Nov 2024 09:00:53 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=15640 On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées will honor Pierre Boulez with a concert in Paris on January 7, 2025, featuring the orchestra Les Siècles. This performance follows a concert in Tourcoing, the northern city where the orchestra is in residence at the Atelier Lyrique. In Tourcoing, they […]

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]]> On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées will honor Pierre Boulez with a concert in Paris on January 7, 2025, featuring the orchestra Les Siècles. This performance follows a concert in Tourcoing, the northern city where the orchestra is in residence at the Atelier Lyrique. In Tourcoing, they will perform the iconic Pli selon Pli and two classics by Debussy (Trois poèmes de Stéphane Mallarmé, in an orchestral arrangement by Heinz Holliger, and La Mer) on January 5, the anniversary of Boulez’s passing in 2016. On stage, French-Cypriot soprano Sarah Aristidou will be accompanied by Franck Ollu, a specialist in French music and contemporary repertoire, conducting the orchestra. The two artists step in to replace François-Xavier Roth and Sabine Devieilhe, who were initially announced.

 

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Pierre Boulez (c) DR

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]]> The Seven New Faces of Les Siècles https://actualites.music-opera.com/en/the-seven-new-faces-of-les-siecles Tue, 01 Oct 2024 13:10:15 +0000 https://actualites.music-opera.com/?p=15134 After the disheartening revelations that naturally led to the withdrawal of their principal leader, the brilliant ensemble Les Siècles, in residence at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées since 2022, is bouncing back by announcing the names of seven replacements. Jakob Lehmann, Ustina Dubitsky, Franck Ollu, Pierre Bleuse, and Simon Proust will conduct the various scheduled events […]

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]]> After the disheartening revelations that naturally led to the withdrawal of their principal leader, the brilliant ensemble Les Siècles, in residence at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées since 2022, is bouncing back by announcing the names of seven replacements. Jakob Lehmann, Ustina Dubitsky, Franck Ollu, Pierre Bleuse, and Simon Proust will conduct the various scheduled events and prestigious concerts (such as the one celebrating the centenary of Pierre Boulez, where Sarah Aristidou will replace Sabine Devieilhe, who is obliged to cancel her appearance). As for the two major operatic events of the season, they will be respectively rescued by Karina Canellakis (for the much-anticipated revival of Dialogues des Carmélites, from December 4 to 12, 2024) and by Marc Leroy-Calatayud (Werther, from March 22 to April 6, 2025, with the French debut of Benjamin Bernheim).

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Jakob Lehmann ; Ustina Dubitsky ; Franck Ollu, Pierre Bleuse ; Simon Proust Karina Canellakis ; Marc Leroy-Calatayud © Sercan Sevindik ; Max Giebel ; Askonas Holt website ; Pilvax ; Alice Narcy ; DR ; Alain Herzog

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