Cosmic Symphony, Rameau, Rebel - Music

1 Place du Champ-au-Roy, Théâtre du Champ au Roy

What was there before creation? Graciane Finzi asks this from the perspective of a creator, imagining what was there “before the before,” the twists of her thought before she laid down a first note. Poulenc questions less: his Sinfonietta, with its third movement falsely Brahmsian, is a jewel of gaiety and gouaille. Nicolas Ellis returns to the initial questions with a formidable Cosmic Symphony. Drawing on Rameau’s stage works and Jean-Féry Rebel’s ballet Les Éléments, he invites us to hear the universe arising from chaos, the seasons and the he…