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Benjamin Bernheim

Opera de Monte-Carlo, Salle Garnier, Monaco, Monaco
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Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Monaco, Monaco
Starts at: 17:00

E-tickets: Print at home or at the box office of the event if so specified. You will find more information in your booking confirmation email.

You can only select the category, and not the exact seats.
If you order 2 or 3 tickets: your seats will be next to each other.
If you order 4 or more tickets: your seats will be next to each other, or, if this is not possible, we will provide a combination of groups of seats (at least in pairs, for example 2+2 or 2+3).

Cast
Performers
Piano: Carrie-Ann Matheson
Creators
Composer: Ernest Chausson
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Composer: Henri Duparc
Programme
Ernest Chausson: Poème de l'amour et de la mer, Op.19
Hector Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7
Henri Duparc: L'Invitation au voyage
Henri Duparc: La vie antérieure
Overview

In his Monte Carlo recital, Benjamin Bernheim presents a rarely heard version for tenor and piano of Berlioz’ Les Nuits d’été, but also pieces by Henri Duparc and Ernest Chausson.

Born in Paris, Benjamin Bernheim grew up in the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Since Cecilia Bartoli invited him to give his debut in Massenet’s opera Cléopâtre at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival in 2012, his career has taken off at an astounding speed. Today, all major opera houses and festivals compete with one another for his presence: the MET in New York, the Paris Opéra, the Vienna State Opera, London, La Scala, Munich, Berlin, Salzburg. Managing his career with intelligence and care, Bernheim focuses on a few roles, mainly from the French repertoire. In general, French music has turned out to suit the radiance of his timbre, the clarity of his diction, and the sensibility of his character most, and he can truly be considered today’s French tenor “par excellence”. 

Such a passion quickly brings you to the “mélodies”, the wonderful heritage of French songs. This repertoire demands a huge scope of colours and a sophisticated touch on the keyboard from Carrie-Ann Matheson, who with her profound experience as a vocal coach, accompanist and pianist is Bernheim’s preferred partner on his recital tours.

Venue Info

Opera de Monte-Carlo - Monaco
Location   Place du Casino

The Opéra de Monte-Carlo is an opera house, which is part of the Monte Carlo Casino located in the Principality of Monaco. With the lack of cultural diversions available in Monaco in the 1870s, Prince Charles III, along with the Société des Bains de mer, decided to include a concert hall as part of the casino. The main public entrance to the hall was from the casino, while Charles III's private entrance was on the western side. It opened in 1879 and became known as the Salle Garnier, after the architect Charles Garnier, who designed it During the renovation of the Salle Garnier in 2004–05, the company presented operas at the Salle des Princes in the local Grimaldi Forum, a modern conference and performance facility where Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra regularly perform.

Salle Garnier

The architect Charles Garnier also designed the Paris opera house now known as the Palais Garnier. The Salle Garnier is much smaller, seating 524, compared to about 2,000 for the Palais Garnier, and unlike the Paris theatre, which was started in 1861 and only completed in 1875, the Salle Garnier was constructed in only eight and a half months. Nevertheless, its ornate style was heavily influenced by that of the Palais Garnier, and many of the same artists worked on both theatres. Although the Monte Carlo theatre was not originally intended for opera, it was soon used frequently for that purpose and was remodeled in 1898–99 by Henri Schmit, primarily in the stage area, to make it more suitable for opera.

The hall was inaugurated on 25 January 1879 with a performance by Sarah Bernhardt dressed as a nymph. The first opera performed there was Robert Planquette's Le Chevalier Gaston on 8 February 1879, followed by three additional operas in the first season.

With the influence of the first director, Jules Cohen (who was instrumental in bringing Adelina Patti) and the fortunate combination of Raoul Gunsbourg, the new director from 1892, and Princess Alice, the opera-loving American wife of Charles III's successor, Albert I, the company was thrust onto the world's opera community stage. Gunsbourg remained for sixty years, overseeing such premiere productions as Hector Berlioz's La damnation de Faust in 1893, and the first appearances in January 1894 of the heroic Italian tenor Francesco Tamagno in Verdi's Otello, whose title role he had created for the opera's premiere in Italy. Conductor Arturo Vigna served as music director of the Monte Carlo Opera from 1895-1903.

By the early years of the twentieth century, the Salle Garnier was to see such great performers as Nellie Melba and Enrico Caruso in La bohème and Rigoletto (in 1902), and Feodor Chaliapin in the premiere of Jules Massenet's Don Quichotte (1910). This production formed part of a long association between the company and Massenet and his operas, two of which were presented there posthumously.

Other famous twentieth-century singers to appear at Monte Carlo included Titta Ruffo, Geraldine Farrar, Mary Garden, Tito Schipa, Beniamino Gigli, Claudia Muzio, Georges Thill, Lily Pons, and Mary McCormic.

Apart from Massenet, composers whose works had their first performances at Monte Carlo included: Saint-Saëns (Hélène, 1904); Mascagni (Amica, 1905); and Puccini (La rondine, 1917). Indeed, since its inauguration, the theatre has hosted 45 world premiere productions of operas. René Blum was retained to found the Ballet de l'Opéra. The "Golden Age" of the Salle Garnier has passed, since small companies with small houses are not able to mount highly expensive productions. Nonetheless, the present day company still presents a season containing five or six operas.

Gala Events in Salle Garnier

Twice in its 130-year history the Opéra was transformed into a spectacular venue to host gala-dinners. The first occasion was in 1966 for the celebration of centenary of Monte-Carlo hosted by Grace Kelly and Rainier III; the second was for the royal wedding of Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene. The Opéra was transformed for the third time on 27 July 2013 to host the Love Ball, a fundraising gala event organised by the Naked Heart Foundation.

Important Info
Type: Classical Concert
City: Monaco, Monaco
Starts at: 17:00
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