Dimitri

Description

Victorin Joncières is the perfect example of a Romantic artist who, throughout his life, relentlessly scaled the barricades set up in his path: he never yielded to the ease of commercial music; he held no academic or official post. Dimitri - his 1876 masterpiece - recalls that the composer was at once a contemporary of Gounod and a defender of Wagner. The work continues the tradition of the spectacular and the monumental (initiated by Meyerbeer) in a narrative that carries the listener from a palace in Krakow to the Kremlin Square, passing through the fortress of Wiksa. At the same time, Bayreuth and the arenas of Orange and Béziers were to transform opera into a popular mass art.