Portrait Claude Vivier
Festival d'Automne à Paris

This year, the 47th edition of the Festival d’Automne in Paris will feature a portrait of the Canadian composer Claude Vivier. Vivier (1948–1983), whose work is still-little known in France, had been close to Karlheinz Stockhausen and Gérard Grisey. He had a passion for the music of the East, his travels in Asia leaving a mark on his works composed for various formations (orchestra, choir, ensemble). After his untimely death in Paris in 1983, Vivier left behind a rich and unclassifiable musical oeuvre that the festival invites you to discover through four concerts and an opera, Kopernikus, for which he wrote the libretto and that Peter Sellars will be directing.

Claude Vivier / Alban Berg / Pascal Dusapin / Gustav Mahler

27.09, 20:00 | Radio France – Auditorium

Claude Vivier / Clara Iannotta

8.10, 20:00 | Théâtre de la Ville – Espace Cardin

Claude Vivier / Tristan Murail / Gustav Mahler

25.10, 20:00 | Radio France / Auditorium

Claude Vivier / Gérard Grisey

16.11, 20:30 | Cité de la Musique – Philharmonie de Paris

Claude Vivier / Peter Sellars

Kopernikus, un rituel de mort
4–8.12 | Théâtre de la Ville – Espace Cardin
17–19. 12 | Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil

Further information: www.festival-automne.com