Some concert events included Ottoman-themed whirling dervishes. A collaboration with the up to date circus firm Circa included a trapeze. One in all his recordings of Vivaldi, that includes the German countertenor Andreas Scholl, featured within the James Bond film Spectre.
From the start, Dyer’s mission has been to “loosen the stays” of sixteenth, seventeenth and 18th Century music, and Notre-Dame proves to be each bit as liberating.
‘I would like folks to really feel like they’ve bought on a aircraft and have gone to Paris for the night’
Paul Dyer
Valentine’s libretto is carried out by actors Matilda Ridgway, greatest identified on TV for Bump, and Glenn Hazeldine, of Colin from Accounts and Redfern Now fame. The pair tells the story of a Sydney engineer who arrives to work on the cathedral on the day it turns into engulfed in fireplace.
The music carried out by each orchestra and choir ranges from the haunting O virga ac diadema by Hildegard von Bingen to the Australian premiere of the Introit from 18th-century French composer André Campra’s requiem.
A 90-minute video can also be projected onto screens the form of the cathedral’s stained-glass home windows, depicting historic scenes.
Hearth engulfs Notre-Dame in 2019.
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Dyer was in his early 20s and a harpsichord scholar at Paris’s Cite internationale des arts when he was first “overwhelmed with the wonder” of the cathedral on the Il de la Cite.
He hopes the efficiency will convey the identical intoxication he felt as a younger man, falling beneath the spell of the Marais district, savouring the fragrance, the colors and the fashion of the streets within the lee of the mighty Notre-Dame.
“I would like folks to really feel like they’ve bought on a aircraft and have gone to Paris for the night,” he says. “In the event that they’ve been launched to among the world’s most lovely music alongside the best way, I’ll be blissful, man.”
Notre-Dame, February 27 to March 2, Metropolis Recital Corridor, Sydney.