David Bontemps: La Flambeau

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Release Date: 12th Apr 2024
Catalogue No: ACD22880
Label: Atma Classique
Length: 81 minutes

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David Bontemps: La Flambeau : Ouverture

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Ricardo Morejón
Orchestre classique de Montréal
Alain Trudel
Recorded: 2023

David Bontemps: La Flambeau, Tableau 1

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Paul Williamson (tenor), Catherine Daniel (mezzo-soprano), Ricardo Morejón
Orchestre classique de Montréal
Alain Trudel
Recorded: 2023

Res Publica (Monsieur)

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Tu sais qui j’ai vu ? (Madame, Monsieur)

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Ce qui m’attriste (Madame, Monsieur)

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Je parle à Maman (Madame, Monsieur)

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La République (Monsieur)

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Ma femme parle aux morts (Madame, Monsieur)

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Verse du rhum (Madame, Monsieur)

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Je ferai trembler ces gens (Monsieur)

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David Bontemps: La Flambeau, Tableau 2

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Paul Williamson (tenor), Suzanne Taffot (soprano), Ricardo Morejón
Orchestre classique de Montréal
Alain Trudel
Recorded: 2023

Je ne la vois pas (Monsieur)

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Pardon Monsieur (Mademoiselle, Monsieur)

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Ça c’est la République (Monsieur)

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C’est La Flambeau (Mademoiselle, Monsieur)

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Mademoiselle brille ! (Monsieur)

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David Bontemps: La Flambeau, Tableau 3

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Suzanne Taffot (soprano), Catherine Daniel (mezzo-soprano), Ricardo Morejón
Orchestre classique de Montréal
Alain Trudel
Recorded: 2023

J’aime ce travail (Mademoiselle)

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Parrain Ogou (Mademoiselle)

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Ce pot d’argile (Mademoiselle)

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Maman t’aime aussi (Mademoiselle, Madame)

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Quelle tristesse que cette femme (Mademoiselle, Madame)

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Une voix dans la nuit (Mademoiselle)

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Car la misère est une guerre (Mademoiselle)

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David Bontemps: La Flambeau, Tableau 4

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Paul Williamson (tenor), Suzanne Taffot (soprano), Catherine Daniel (mezzo-soprano), Ricardo Morejón
Orchestre classique de Montréal
Alain Trudel
Recorded: 2023

Main. Cœur. (Monsieur)

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Bague Ogou a ! (Mademoiselle, Monsieur)

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Je t’aiderai à la retrouver (Mademoiselle, Monsieur)

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Trop bon ! (Mademoiselle, Monsieur)

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Tombée (Mademoiselle)

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Ne pleure pas, Maman (Mademoiselle, Madame)

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David Bontemps: La Flambeau, Tableau 5

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Brandon Coleman (bass-baritone), Paul Williamson (tenor), Ricardo Morejón
Orchestre classique de Montréal
Alain Trudel
Recorded: 2023

Anonse (L'Homme)

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Nous sommes ici, Monsieur, pour te juger (Monsieur, L'Homme)

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La terre des pères de nos pères (L'Homme)

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Nous châtierons et purgerons (L'Homme)

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L’as-tu fait ? (Monsieur, L'Homme)

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C’est ainsi que c’est arrivé (Monsieur)

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C’est trop tard (Monsieur, L'Homme)

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Pardon Papa Ogou (Monsieur, L'Homme)

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Il est minuit (L'Homme)

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David Bontemps: La Flambeau, Tableau 6

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Catherine Daniel (mezzo-soprano), Ricardo Morejón
Orchestre classique de Montréal
Alain Trudel
Recorded: 2023

Là-bas (Madame)

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J’ai juré (Madame)

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Maman (Madame)

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David Bontemps: La Flambeau, Tableau 7

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Suzanne Taffot (soprano), Ricardo Morejón
Orchestre classique de Montréal
Alain Trudel
Recorded: 2023

Cette fête au quartier (Mademoiselle)

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Madame a fui la maison (Mademoiselle)

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Monsieur Zombi danse ! (Mademoiselle)

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Finale

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ATMA Classique is delighted to release the world premiere recording of David Bontemps' 2020 chamber opera La Flambeau, based on the eponymous drama by Haitian playwright Faubert Bolivar.

La Flambeau was premiered on February 7, 2023 at Montreal's Salle Pierre-Mercure with Suzanne Taffot, Catherine Daniel, Paul Williamson and Brandon Coleman and the Orchestre classique de Montreal, conducted by Alain Trudel. Set in Haiti, the libretto for La Flambeau was adapted by Bontemps himself.

La Flambeau tells the story of a dysfunctional couple, Monsieur (a narcissistic, ambitious intellectual obsessed with the ideals of the Republic) and Mademoiselle (who talks to her dead parents), who hire a working-class housewife. Through imposed dogma and deceptive behaviour, Monsieur abuses Mademoiselle. After a trial and a surreal confession, Monsieur is condemned through a kind of popular justice to become a zombie at the service of all.

The music, woven from accessible melodies and imbued with Afro-Haitian elements, uses thematic cycles that intensify with the plot. "From a musical point of view, Bontemps' work adopts the ascetic style of chamber opera: the four characters express themselves in an unadorned melodic language, chanted to the rhythm of the spoken word and a string orchestra supported by the light percussion of a pair of maracas," says musicologist Claude Dauphin about La Flambeau.

Born in Port-au-Prince, David Bontemps is now based in Montreal.

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