CAMILLE CLAUDEL: Into The Fire (2012)

A Song Cycle for mezzo-soprano and string quartet (piano reduction available), with texts by Gene Scheer based on the life and work of the French sculptor. Commissioned by San Francisco Performances and generously underwritten by Linda & Stuart Nelson. First Performance: Feb 4, 2012 at Herbst Theater, San Francisco, with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and the Alexander String Quartet. Orchestrated for Sasha Cooke and the Berkeley Symphony, debut scheduled for Feb 26, 2015.

A complete recording can be found on here/after, and sheet music and scores can be found in the here/after Collection.

Prelude: Awakening
1. Rodin
2. La Valse
3. Shakuntala
4. La petite châtelaine
5. The Gossips
6. L’age mûr
7. Epilogue: Jessie Lipscomb visits Camille Claudel, Montdevergues Asylum, 1929

Recordings of this composition are available. See Joyce DiDonato: Into The Fire (Erato) and here/after: songs of lost voices (PentaTone Classics).

      

Upcoming and Past Performances:

Nov 6 2020 DALLAS	(POSTPONED) Joyce DiDonato sings Camille Claudel: Into the Fire at a gala concert for The Dallas Opera in the Winspear Opera House with The Dallas Opera Orchestra led by Emmanuel Villaume. Program also includes Berlioz’s La mort de Cléopâtre. More Perf. Info. The Dallas Opera Type: Camille Claudel
Nov 17 2018	Joyce DiDonato and the Brentano String Quartet perform Camille Claudel: Into the Fire live on New York’s WQXR as part of Werk It, a women’s podcasting festival. More Perf. Info. Type: Camille Claudel
Dec 18 & 21 2017 LONDON	Camille Claudel: Into the Fire at London’s Wigmore Hall performed by Joyce DiDonato and the Brentano String Quartet. Program also includes Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis (arr. Heggie), songs by Strauss, and music by Webern and Schubert. More Perf. Info. Wigmore Hall Type: Camille Claudel
Nov 13 2016 PARIS	Joyce DiDonato sings Camille Claudel: Into the Fire at the Palais Garnier with pianist Philippe Jordan (musical director of the Opéra National de Paris). More Perf. Info. Palais Garnier Type: Camille Claudel
Oct 5 2016 WASHINGTON	Joyce DiDonato sings Camille Claudel: Into the Fire at the Kennedy Center with the Brentano String Quartet The Kennedy Center Type: Camille Claudel
Sep 22 2016 PROVO	Joyce DiDonato sings Camille Claudel: Into the Fire at Brigham Young University with the Brentano String Quartet. More Perf. Info. Brigham Young University Type: Camille Claudel
May 3 2015	Camille Claudel: Into the Fire performed by mezzo-soprano Laura Krumm and the Alexander String Quartet for the Music at Kohl Mansion series, Burlingame, CA. More Perf. Info. Type: Camille Claudel
Apr 14 2015 LONDON	Camille Claudel: Into the Fire at the Barbican Centre in London; Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano and the Brentano String Quartet, Milton Court Concert Hall, 7:30pm. Jake will be Joyce’s pianist for Reynaldo Hahn’s Venezia in the first half of the program. More Perf. Info. Barbican Centre Type: Camille Claudel
Feb 26 2015 BERKELEY	Camille Claudel: Into the Fire Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke joins the Berkeley Symphony for the first performance of the newly orchestrated work conducted by music director Joana Carneiro at Zellerbach Hall, UC Berkeley Campus, 8pm. More Perf. Info. Berkeley Symphony Type: Camille Claudel
Feb 18 2015	Camille Claudel: Into the Fire at Princeton University; Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano and the Brentano String Quartet. Richardson Auditorium at Alexander Hall, 7:30pm. More Perf. Info. Type: Camille Claudel
Feb 5 2015 NEW YORK	Joyce DiDonato and the Brentano String Quartet give the East Coast premiere of Camille Claudel: Into the Fire – the operatic song cycle based on the life and work of the great French sculptor (poetry by Gene Scheer) – at Carnegie Hall in a program that also features music of Debussy and Charpentier. Part of Joyce DiDonato’s Perspective Series at Carnegie Hall. More Perf. Info. Carnegie Hall Type: Camille Claudel
Feb 4 2012 SAN FRANCISCO	Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and the Alexander String Quartet perform the world premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s CAMILLE CLAUDEL: Into the Fire at Herbst Theater. Commissioned by San Francisco Performances. Program also includes Debussy’s String Quartet, and songs by Reynaldo Hahn. San Francisco Performances Type: Camille Claudel

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