{"id":1103073,"date":"2025-11-17T12:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/pascal-blanchet\/critique-de-disque-ambroise-thomas-psyche-helene-guilmette-bru-zane\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:59:04","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:59:04","slug":"critique-de-disque-ambroise-thomas-psyche-helene-guilmette-bru-zane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/pascal-blanchet\/critique-de-disque-ambroise-thomas-psyche-helene-guilmette-bru-zane\/","title":{"rendered":"Critique de disque | Ambroise Thomas: <em>Psych\u00e9<\/em>, H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Guilmette, Bru Zane"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><b>Ambroise Thomas:\u00a0<\/b><b><i>Psych\u00e9<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Guilmette (Psych\u00e9), Antoinette Dennefeld (\u00c9ros), Tassis Christoyannis (Mercure), Mercedes Arcuri (Dafn\u00e9), Anna Dowsley (B\u00e9r\u00e9nice), Artavazd Sargsyan (Antino\u00fcs), Philippe Est\u00e8phe (Gorgias)\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, Gy\u00f6rgy Vashegyi, chef.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bru Zane, BZ1062<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">\u00c0 l\u2019automne 2024, le public de Montr\u00e9al a eu l\u2019occasion de d\u00e9couvrir le <a href=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/justin-bernard\/critique-opera-de-montreal-hamlet-ou-le-triomphe-dophelie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamlet<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> d\u2019Ambroise Thomas, compositeur fran\u00e7ais un peu oubli\u00e9 dont la musique a soulev\u00e9 l\u2019enthousiasme. Il y a fort longtemps par contre qu\u2019on a entendu ici la soprano qu\u00e9b\u00e9coise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heleneguilmette.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Guilmette<\/a>, qui m\u00e8ne une brillante carri\u00e8re, en Europe surtout, depuis plus de vingt ans. Cette int\u00e9grale de l\u2019op\u00e9ra <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psych\u00e9<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, tout en \u00e9tant une premi\u00e8re mondiale, nous permet de renouer avec un compositeur tr\u00e8s sous-estim\u00e9 et une chanteuse trop rare.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le livret raconte l\u2019histoire de la d\u00e9esse Psych\u00e9, si belle qu\u2019elle soul\u00e8ve la jalousie de V\u00e9nus, qui jure sa perte. \u00c9ros, amoureux d\u2019elle, la sauvera et l\u2019\u00e9pousera, malgr\u00e9 les man\u0153uvres de Mercure, envoy\u00e9 par V\u00e9nus d\u00e9sireuse de se venger. Sur ce livret de Jules Barbier et Michel Carr\u00e9 (auteurs des paroles de <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Faust<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> et des <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contes d\u2019Hoffmann, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">entre autres grands succ\u00e8s), Ambroise Thomas a bross\u00e9 une grande fresque musicale qui conquit le public et suscita m\u00eame l\u2019admiration du s\u00e9v\u00e8re Berlioz. Un peu d\u00e9concertant, ce chass\u00e9-crois\u00e9 amoureux entre des dieux et des d\u00e9esses, qui s\u2019entred\u00e9chirent et se taquinent, peut rappeler \u00e0 la fois les cantates fran\u00e7aises du XVIII<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0si\u00e8cle et les op\u00e9rettes dont la vogue commen\u00e7ait \u00e0 Paris \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque de la cr\u00e9ation (1857).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On entend donc des airs pleins de vocalises d\u00e9lirantes dans le style de Rossini, des fins d\u2019acte spectaculaires dont la fougue \u00e9voque Verdi, mais aussi des \u00e9lans lyriques passionn\u00e9s dignes de Gounod voisinant des moments de com\u00e9die que n\u2019aurait pas reni\u00e9s Offenbach ! \u00c0 l\u2019aise dans tous les styles, le compositeur laisse aller son imagination d\u00e9bordante, ses m\u00e9lodies in\u00e9puisables et son sens raffin\u00e9 de l\u2019orchestration.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le r\u00f4le de Psych\u00e9 devait revenir \u00e0 Jodie Devos, brillante soprano colorature disparue trop t\u00f4t l\u2019an dernier. H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Guilmette, sans avoir la m\u00eame aisance dans l\u2019aigu, a tout de m\u00eame beaucoup \u00e0 offrir, \u00e0 commencer par un timbre fruit\u00e9, au m\u00e9dium riche, en plus d\u2019une diction impeccable au service d\u2019une interpr\u00e9tation digne d\u2019une grande com\u00e9dienne.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Les deux autres personnages principaux, \u00c9ros et Mercure, sont chant\u00e9s par la mezzo Antoinette Dennefeld et le baryton Tassis Christoyannis, qui se montrent \u00e0 la hauteur et viennent \u00e0 bout de leurs airs tr\u00e8s exigeants.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Encore une fois, le Palazzetto Bru Zane a d\u00e9nich\u00e9 une p\u00e9pite scintillante dans la caverne des op\u00e9ras oubli\u00e9s. Les textes d\u2019accompagnement sont comme toujours copieux et \u00e9clairants. Difficile d\u2019imaginer dans quelle mise en sc\u00e8ne une partition aussi singuli\u00e8re et foisonnante pourrait revivre, mais on peut toujours r\u00eaver en \u00e9coutant ce magnifique enregistrement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_34012\"  width=\"702\" height=\"394\"  data-origwidth=\"702\" data-origheight=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AbLIrvLeg8c?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambroise Thomas:\u00a0Psych\u00e9 H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Guilmette (Psych\u00e9), Antoinette Dennefeld (\u00c9ros), Tassis Christoyannis (Mercure), Mercedes Arcuri (Dafn\u00e9), Anna Dowsley (B\u00e9r\u00e9nice), Artavazd Sargsyan (Antino\u00fcs), Philippe Est\u00e8phe (Gorgias)\u00a0 Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, Gy\u00f6rgy Vashegyi, chef. Bru Zane, BZ1062 \u00c0 l\u2019automne 2024, le public de Montr\u00e9al a eu l\u2019occasion de d\u00e9couvrir le Hamlet d\u2019Ambroise Thomas, compositeur fran\u00e7ais un<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more hi\"><a href=\"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/pascal-blanchet\/critique-de-disque-ambroise-thomas-psyche-helene-guilmette-bru-zane\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":39320,"featured_media":1102726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"rating_form_position":"","rating_results_position":"","mr_structured_data_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17038,394],"tags":[55258,55198,58717,44774,62709,58712,59558],"class_list":{"0":"post-1103073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-critiques-de-disques-et-livres","8":"category-musique-classique","9":"tag-ambroise-thomas-fr","10":"tag-bru-zane-fr","11":"tag-gyorgy-vashegyi-fr","12":"tag-helene-guilmette-fr","13":"tag-hungarian-national-choir-fr","14":"tag-hungarian-national-philharmonic-orchestra-fr","15":"tag-opera-francais","16":"type-critique-de-disque","17":"volume-volume-31","18":"issue-vol-31-issue-34-fr","19":"section-critiques"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thomas-Psyche.jpg","blog_images":{"medium":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thomas-Psyche-300x144.jpg","large":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Thomas-Psyche.jpg"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"ams_acf":[{"key":"le_volume","label":"Le volume","value":[]},{"key":"numero","label":"Num\u00e9ro","value":[]},{"key":"source_url","label":"Source URL","value":""},{"key":"author_name","label":"Author","value":""},{"key":"editchoice","label":"Edit Choice","value":[]},{"key":"is_cover_story","label":"Is Cover Story","value":[]},{"key":"performer_1","label":"Performer 1","value":""},{"key":"performer_2","label":"Performer 2","value":""},{"key":"other_info","label":"Other info","value":""},{"key":"ink_amazon","label":"Ink Amazon","value":""},{"key":"archambault","label":"archambault link","value":""},{"key":"price","label":"Price","value":""}],"multi-rating":{"mr_rating_results":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103073"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1103075,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103073\/revisions\/1103075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1102726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myscena.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}