Not easy for classical artists to perform at the Tremblant Music Festival. The temperature has its moods, and it doesn’t care if it suits the performers and their instruments. It was chilly on this Saturday afternoon at the foot of the mountain, which can’t be ideal for a singer. Plus, it rained, it was sunny, and it rained again. But well, Julie knows how to do it and has performed with character the different arias on the program presented on the big Québécor stage. A lot of Mozart (The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni...) and French Melodies (Hahn, Pauline Viardot…), a repertoire that she naturally inhabits and that the Quebec mezzo beautifully sketched, with a touch of facial expression, enough to follow the characters’ states of mind. Luc Beauséjour assisted with all the necessary elegance on piano. At the end of the recital, which was still attended by quite a few people despite the uncertain weather, Angèle Dubeau gave the pianist a bag full of bird feathers. He revealed to us that he uses them to make plectrums for his harpsichord (which is used to pluck the strings of the instrument), a material that was used in the past. Just to see the reaction of the audience who “discovered” a manufacturing secret hidden behind the music, the Fête de la Musique was worth organizing.
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