le petit prince par antoine de saint exupéry

This musical tradition was also those musicians’ one, at the same time performers and creators. Coming from Moscow and Lithuania, she had studied several years in Vienna, in particular with the virtuosi and teachers Sirota, Isserlis and some other great piano masters of Central Europe. She got him immediately in Olivier Messiaen’s famous class of composing, developed also his piano repertoire and taught him the great repertoire of the XX th century, that is the one of Messiaen, but also his pupils’ works, Boulez and Stockhausen.īesides those classical studies at the National Superior Conservatory of Paris, his musical training was marked from his very early childhood by another musical tradition, the Russian school of piano, thanks to his mother, the pianist Raissa Lévy. In that institution he met the great musicians who made the deepest impression on him, in particular, the pianists Vlado Perlemuter, Yvonne Lefébure, but also Yvonne Loriod to whom he showed his first works. Internationally recognized in the fields of creation and interpretation, the double profile, of pianist and composer, imparts Michael Levinas a remarkable peculiarity within the French and International musical life.īorn in Paris, Michael Levinas went through the classical and high level teaching of the National Superior Conservatory of Paris, running at once studies of piano, the famous class of accompaniment, orchestra conducting and composing. It is also in that respect that the project of Le Petit Prince made sense to me, from an aesthetic point of view. What a responsibility! A unique adventure in a composer’s life! Writing an opera based on a work that is anchored in collective memory forced me to create a kind of theatricality that would be immediately perceivable and aimed at the widest audience, thus sparking off an exceptional and important bond between the public and the stage. There are already operas based on the Little Prince in Russian, English, German, but strangely enough, none in French. Hence my positive reply to Eric Vigié, director of the Lausanne Opera, who suggested adapting the book to a lyrical work.

I have always perceived music in the text of the Little Prince, this address to children, which expresses life’s graceful and transient state. Cet album a reçu le 'Prix du Président de la République' 2017, Grands Prix Du Disque Et Du DVD 2017, décerné par l'Acadamie du Disque Charles Cros

Le petit prince par antoine de saint exupéry