Concert du Nouvel An – American voices | Rebecca Tong, l’Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne et le Chœur de l’Opéra de Dijon

"One foot in Tin Pan Alley, the other in Carnegie Hall!" : nothing sums up the alchemy of American music better than this famous Bernstein phrase, suggesting that nothing is more serious - or difficult - than the art of entertaining. Under the high patronage of the self-taught Gershwin, all the energy and choreographic sense of Broadway is displayed in this program: the ironic revival of the classics with Candide, L'Homme de la Mancha or Rent, which reinvents La Boheme, the spiritual homage to Shakespeare with West Side Story and Something Rotten, the eternal youthfulness of the tale with Cinderella and The Wizard of Oz... Sometimes electric, sometimes lyrical, the genius of the American songwriters irrigates a program that magnifies the learned spontaneity of such music. A phrase from Cunégonde in Candide seems to have been made for her: "If I am not pure, at least my jewels are!