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When it was created in 1846, the failure of this "dramatic legend in four parts" inspired by Goethe's Faust, whose reading in Gérard de Nerval's translation fascinated him from the outset, brought Berlioz to ruin. La Damnation de Faust was rediscovered in 1877, and from then on its fame spread ever wider. Berlioz regarded the work as an opera without sets or costumes. From the plains of Hungary to the Cabinet of Faust, from the banks of the Elbe to Marguerite's chamber, a colourful, colourful, larger-than-life epic.
Under the musical direction of Tugan Sokhiev, the Orchestre de Paris and the Choirs of the Orchestre de Paris will give La Damnation de Faust at the Philharmonie de Paris for two concerts on 15 and 16 January 2020. Renaud Delaigue will sing the role of Brander alongside Paul Groves (Faust), Karine Deshayes (Marguerite) and Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Mephistopheles).
Trained at the CNSMD in Lyon and former member of the Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra national de Lyon, Renaud Delaigue was quickly spotted by some of the great names in early music: Dominique Visse - "high priest" of Renaissance polyphony, who envolved him as one of the pillars of his famous Ensemble Clément Janequin -, Jean-Claude Malgoire, who gave him successive roles in his Monteverdi trilogy (Seneca, Caronte, Nettuno...), but also William Christie, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Hervé Niquet or Christophe Rousset who, from Charpentier's David et Jonathas to Lully's Psyché, via Cavalli's La Didone or Charpentier's Médée, definitely soften him as one of the cherished voices of the baroque scene.
Not limited to this period, Renaud Delaigue's repertoire also includes the major roles of the classical, romantic and more recent repertoire; He already sang the Pope (Benvenuto Cellini) and Herod (L'Enfance du Christ) under the baton of John Nelson, Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande) in Bremen with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Opéra de Nice, Caronte (L'Orfeo) at the Opéra de Dijon, Zuniga (Carmen) at the Opéra de Lille, the Théâtre de Caen and the Opéra de Limoges, Frère Laurent (Berlioz' Roméo et Juliette) in Saint-Louis (USA) under the direction of Leonard Slatkin, the Landgrave (Tannhaüser) and the old Gypsy (Aleko) at the Centre Lyrique de Clermont-Auvergne, Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia) at the Rennes Opera, Angelotti (Tosca) at the Reims Opera, Nourabad (Les Pêcheurs de Perles) in Plovdiv, the Old Hebrew (Samson et Dalila) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, or Basilio (Il Barbiere di Siviglia), Publio (La Clemenza di Tito), Haly (L'Italiana in Algeri) and the Commander (Don Giovanni) at the Atelier lyrique de Tourcoing.
Upcoming projects include The Passion and Resurrection of Christ, around Marc-Antoine Charpentier, on 3 April 2020 in Toucoing and 5 April 2020 at the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Vaucelles and the revival of the roles of Aglovale and Ablamore in Le Silence des Ombres by Benjamin Attahir at the Grand Théâtre du Luxembourg on 16 May 2020.
