Ernest & Victoria
Musical theater based on the correspondence between Ernest Ansermet and Victoria Ocampo
Monday
03.06.2024
19:30 — La Cité Bleue, Genève
Tuesday
04.06.2024
19:30 — La Cité Bleue, Genève
Wednesday
05.06.2024
19:30 — La Cité Bleue, Genève
Friday
07.06.2024
19:30 — La Cité Bleue, Genève
Programme
Ana María Patiño-Osorioconductor
Rodolphe CongéErnest Ansermet
Annie Dutoit-ArgerichVictoria Ocampo
Gaston ReLuís Borges
Léon David SalazarIgor Stravinski
Marcial Di Fonzo Bostage director
Ernest and Victoria
Musical theater based on the correspondence between Ernest Ansermet and Victoria Ocampo
With works of Ástor Piazzolla, Igor Stravinsky, Robert Schumann, Julián Aguirre and Ángel Villoldo
arrangements by Alexandre Mastrangelo
A creation by Cité Bleue Genève, in partnership with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Based on an original idea by Leonardo García Alarcón.
Milonga on 5 June at 9pm
Adrian Cia & Marthe Krummenacher invite you to discover Argentine tango at the end of the show on 5 June 2024!
The music
In 1924, Ernest Ansermet travelled to Buenos Aires: Argentinian musicians eager to found a symphony orchestra called the young Swiss conductor and hired him for the season. The programme met an unexpected and considerable success.
Among the audience was Victoria Ocampo, a young woman who had rushed to the concert out of love for Debussy. Multilingual and highly educated, she conversed with the greatest international intellectuals and artists of her time.
The next day, she sent Ansermet an invitation: a simple note that marked the beginning of a correspondence that would last more than forty years.
This correspondence will be staged and accompanied by works chosen from the repertoire that Ansermet conducted in Buenos Aires as a tribute to a great history of friendship, culture and creativity, and to the bonds that Ernest Ansermet and Victoria Ocampo shared with José Luis Borges, Igor Stravinsky and Rabindranath Tagore.