28 mai 2023, 18:30 – 20:00 | Festival : Au Salon de Joséphine

Romances, arias by Cherubini, Pergolese, Garat, Jadin, Mehul, Boieldieu, Grétry
From her earliest childhood, Marie-Josèphe Rose Tascher de la Pagerie showed a particular interest in music. Not being a skilled musician herself, she was more active and prolific as a patron of the arts, and apparently she had a nose for talent!

Her union with General Bonaparte in 1796, gave her a status that allowed her to have influence in the orientation of "French taste" and to open it to a more European dimension. She was also known to support morally and financially the young interpreters and composers of the time from whom she received scores from all over Europe.

It is said that once a week, Josephine gave concerts at Malmaison. The artists would set up in the music salon, with the audience taking their seats amidst the paintings and antiques in the adjoining large gallery. Harp, piano forte and other instruments resounded in the salon in romances, opera arias and chamber music pieces. One can even read that a small theater was built as an annex to the castle in order to be able to perform and create operas. She seems to have given an important place to Italian music, helping artists such as Paisiello, Paër or Spontini.

This real infatuation of Josephine for lyrical art, and more particularly for Italian opera, served Napoleon's artistic policy. Under her impetus, Malmaison became a privileged place for musical experiments: she gave previews of great operas long before they were performed in Paris.

Thanks to the various sources of the time, we have been able to recreate what a salon at Empress Josephine's home might have looked like: French and Italian opera arias transcribed for the piano mingling with the charming melodies sung at the time in the salons of the Court and written by composers such as Cherubini, Pergolese, Garat, Jadin, Mehul, Boieldieu, or even Grétry.

Coline Dutilleul, Mezzo-Soprano

Coline Dutilleul, mezzo-soprano
Winner of the Cologne International Competition in 2014, member of the Opera Studio of the Opéra national du Rhin from 2015 to 2017, selected for the Britten Pears Young Talent Program, Lucerne Festival Academy (Simon Rattle), Académie d'Ambronay (Leonardo Garcia Alarcon), Acadèmia de Formacio (Jordi Savall), Spotted by the soprano Barbara Hannigan, Coline Dutilleul performed at the Operas of Aachen (Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw), at the Opéra d'Avignon and Clérmont-ferrand (Hänsel in Hänsel und Gretel and Soeur Mathilde in the dialogue of the Carmelites), at the Opéra-Comique (creation of Miranda - staging: Katie Mitchell, musical director: Raphaël Pichon) as well as in Lille and Caen (a maid in Der Zwerg by Zemlinsky - director: Daniel Jeanneteau). She will soon appear in Purcell's Fairy Queen at the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing (conductor: Alexis Kossenko / Director: JP Desrousseaux) as well as in the role of Mercedes in Carmen at the Clérmont-Ferrand Opera.  Her first CD will be released by Fuga Libera in the fall of 2022.
She is interested in the romance repertoire and forms a duo with the keyboardist Aline Zylberajch, whose Haydn arias can be heard on film by Arte Concert.
Coline Dutilleul is a scholarship holder of the Securex Foundation and the Royaumont Foundation. She is also a member of the ENOA Community

Aline Zylberajch, keyboardist (harpsichordist and pianofortist)
The musical path of keyboardist Aline Zylberajch has been nourished for many years by an assiduous frequentation of vocal music, by inspiring encounters with rare keyboards and the taste of teaching at the CNSMDP, CRR of Strasbourg and numerous European academies.
She explores, as a soloist and in company, original repertoires, and has made some very well-received records.

Pernelle Marzorati, harpiste
Pernelle Marzorati se forme au violon puis à la harpe au CRR du Mans. Elle découvre la musique ancienne au CRR de Tours et poursuit ses études au CNSMD Lyon auprès d’Angélique Mauillon pour les répertoires du Moyen-âge, Renaissance et Baroque. Elle étudie le répertoire classique et romantique à Milan avec la harpiste Mara Galassi tout en ayant suivi un cursus complet en écriture, favorisant des travaux d’arrangements pour diverses formations. Elle se produit avec divers ensembles : Correspondances, Le Concert d’Astrée, La Chapelle Harmonique, Les Lunaisiens, Ensemble Près de votre oreille…