{"id":15262,"date":"2025-07-13T10:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/?p=15262"},"modified":"2025-07-13T10:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T08:37:01","slug":"dimanche-a-lopera-dioclesian-de-henry-purcell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/dimanche-a-lopera-dioclesian-de-henry-purcell\/","title":{"rendered":"Dimanche \u00e0 l&rsquo;op\u00e9ra &#8211; Dioclesian, de Henry Purcell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Playlist13072025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-15263\" src=\"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Playlist13072025-300x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Playlist13072025-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Playlist13072025.jpg 685w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a>Retour \u00e0 l\u2019op\u00e9ra en ce dimanche veille de f\u00eate nationale, avec une oeuvre relativement courte qui n\u2019est qu\u2019un <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semi-op\u00e9ra#:~:text=Un%20semi%2Dop\u00e9ra%20(ou%20mask,par%20le%20terme%20dramatic%20opera.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>semi-op\u00e9ra<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, compos\u00e9 par Henry Purcell vers 1690 : \u00ab Dioclesian \u00bb, dans la version enregistr\u00e9e par Trevor Pinnock en 1995 &#8211;<em>cliquer sur l&rsquo;image pour la voir en plus grand<\/em>-.<br \/>\nLe semi-op\u00e9ra est une forme propre au baroque anglaise m\u00eale dialogues, airs chant\u00e9s et choeurs, mais aussi danses et masques o\u00f9 les r\u00f4les principaux sont le plus souvent parl\u00e9s. Le livret de Thomas Betterton est adapt\u00e9 d\u2019une pi\u00e8ce de th\u00e9\u00e2tre de John Fletcher et Philip Massinger : \u00ab La proph\u00e9tesse \u00bb -1647-. L \u2018op\u00e9ra livre une adaptation tr\u00e8s libre de la vie de <a href=\"https:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diocl\u00e9tien\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>l\u2019empereur Diocl\u00e9tien<\/strong><\/span><\/a> et d\u00e9bute vers 284 &#8211; 285 ap. JC, au moment de la mort de l\u2019empereur Num\u00e9rien, mais la pi\u00e8ce pr\u00e9sente de trop nombreux \u00e9carts avec la r\u00e9alit\u00e9 historique &#8211;<em>elle-m\u00eame tr\u00e8s complexe \u00e0 ce stade de l&rsquo;histoire de l&#8217;empire romain<\/em>&#8211; pour \u00eatre dat\u00e9e plus pr\u00e9cis\u00e9ment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Delphia, une proph\u00e9tesse, pr\u00e9dit que Diocl\u00e8s, un soldat du rang, deviendra empereur apr\u00e8s avoir tu\u00e9 un \u00ab\u00a0puissant sanglier\u00a0\u00bb et qu\u2019il \u00e9pousera la ni\u00e8ce de Delphia, Drusilla, qui est amoureuse de lui. Diocl\u00e8s prend la proph\u00e9tie au s\u00e9rieux et commence \u00e0 abattre de nombreux sangliers, sans cependant que la proph\u00e9tie se r\u00e9alise. Lorsqu\u2019il s&rsquo;av\u00e8re qu&rsquo;un soldat appel\u00e9 Volutius Aper &#8211;<em>Aper = sanglier en latin<\/em>&#8211; a assassin\u00e9 le vieil empereur Num\u00e9rien, Diocl\u00e8s tue Aper pour se venger.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Diocletien_Buste072025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15267\" src=\"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Diocletien_Buste072025.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a>En r\u00e9compense de cette action, il est fait co-empereur et se renomme Diocl\u00e9sien. Il ignore cependant sa promesse d&rsquo;\u00e9pouser Drusilla et courtise plut\u00f4t la s\u0153ur de son co-empereur, la princesse Aur\u00e9lia. Cela met en col\u00e8re Delphia, qui met fin \u00e0 la c\u00e9r\u00e9monie de mariage en d\u00e9clenchant une temp\u00eate et en invoquant un monstre. Elle fait ensuite tomber la princesse Aur\u00e9lia amoureuse d\u2019un rival de Diocl\u00e8s, Maximinien. Elle provoque \u00e9galement la d\u00e9faite de l\u2019arm\u00e9e romaine contre les Perses. Apr\u00e8s cette d\u00e9faite, Diocl\u00e9sien se rend compte de ses erreurs, chasse les envahisseurs, puis c\u00e8de sa moiti\u00e9 du tr\u00f4ne \u00e0 Maximinien et se d\u00e9place en Lombardie avec Drusilla.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">La musique de ce semi-op\u00e9ra est essentiellement de caract\u00e8re c\u00e9r\u00e9moniel et dansant, elle n&rsquo;atteint jamais la profondeur expressive de son unique op\u00e9ra \u00ab\u00a0Didon et \u00c9n\u00e9e\u00a0\u00bb. Quelques choeurs sont cependant tr\u00e8s spectaculaires et certains airs pour solistes sont tr\u00e8s beaux. Dans le cadre d&rsquo;une \u00e9coute au disque cependant, l&rsquo;oeuvre manque de coh\u00e9sion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LogoPriseDeSonBlog-e1743415482377.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-13461\" src=\"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/LogoPriseDeSonBlog-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>La version de ce jour est r\u00e9put\u00e9e pour sa direction, claire, vive, d\u00e9taill\u00e9e. Trevor Pinnock et son orchestre ont quasiment toujours fait merveille dans le domaine de la musique baroque anglaise, et, \u00e0 ce stade de leur carri\u00e8re, les musiciens \u00e9taient devenus des virtuoses incontournables dans ce r\u00e9pertoire. La qualit\u00e9 du chant est tout-\u00e0-fait excellente \u00e9galement &#8211;<em>solistes et choeurs \u00e0 la diction exemplaire<\/em>-. Les conditions techniques sont tr\u00e8s bonnes et le livret extr\u00eamement informatif sur une oeuvre qui n&rsquo;est pas majeure dans la production du compositeur mais n&rsquo;en demeure pas moins int\u00e9ressante et fort belle !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Retour \u00e0 l\u2019op\u00e9ra en ce dimanche veille de f\u00eate nationale, avec une oeuvre relativement courte qui n\u2019est qu\u2019un semi-op\u00e9ra, compos\u00e9 par Henry Purcell vers 1690 : \u00ab Dioclesian \u00bb, dans la version enregistr\u00e9e par Trevor Pinnock en 1995 &#8211;cliquer sur l&rsquo;image pour la voir en plus grand-. Le semi-op\u00e9ra est une forme propre au baroque [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[295],"tags":[122,67,200,291],"class_list":["post-15262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dimanche-a-lopera","tag-musique-baroque","tag-opera","tag-pinnock","tag-purcell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/latelierdediablotin.fr\/WordPress3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}