March 27 - 30, 2025, Megève
Classical music event Megève - Classiciquicime concert
Mozart Night
Thursday, March 27, 2025 - 8:00 p.m.
Manon Galy, Chiara Skerath,
Orchestra of the Savoy region conducted by Pieter-Jelle de Boer
Megève Palace
From 65.00€
A grand event for Mozart lovers
The Diapason Megève Festival 2025 offers a grand concert at the Palais Megève! A majestic venue in the Savoyard village, it welcomes 750 spectators for a grandiose event immersing enthusiasts in the refined work of Mozart. Between tradition and innovation, the evening begins with a violin concerto, followed by orchestral pieces, and ends with an anthology of opera arias. The orchestra and the two soloists play in unison to make this evening a memorable moment.
Program, two parts of approximately 50 minutes, with an intermission:
Part One:
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The Marriage of Figaro: Overture
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The Marriage of Figaro: Air by Susanne “Giunse alfin il momento” *
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Mass in C minor: Laudamus te *
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Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major °
Intermission
Part Two
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Don Giovanni: Air by Donna Elvira “In quali ecessi... Mi tradi quell'alma” *
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La Clemenza di Tito: Air by Vitellia “Non più di fiori” *
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Concert tune “Alma grande e nobil core” *
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Symphony No. 35 in D major “Haffner”
The artists of the Mozart Night
Manon Galy
Named “Instrumental Soloist Revelation” at the 2022 Victoires de la Musique.
Manon is a laureate of numerous international competitions such as the Lyon International Chamber Music Competition in 2021 where she won 1st prize as well as all the special prizes in sonata with Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan, the Jascha Heifetz International Competition in Vilnius (3rd prize and audience prize). She is also a laureate of the Banque Populaire and Safran foundations, as well as AMOPA and the Charles Oulmont foundation.
Manon regularly performs as a soloist with various international orchestras; the chamber orchestras of Vienna, Salzburg, Lausanne, Toulouse or Nouvelle Aquitaine, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire, the Lithuanian National Symphony orchestra, the Brasov Philharmonic orchestra...
She has collaborated with great conductors such as Renaud Capuçon, Sacha Goetzel, Aziz Shokhakimov, Victorien Vanoosten, Gabor Tackaks-Nagy, David Molard-Soriano, Simone Menezes among others.
Manon is a regular guest at major festivals such as the International Piano Festival of La Roque d'Anthéron, the Easter Festival of Aix-en-Provence or Colmar, the Rencontres Musicales d'Evian, the Chaise-Dieu Festival, Al-Bustan Festival (Lebanon), the Folle Journée in Nantes and Tokyo (Japan)... And performs in legendary venues such as the Philharmonie de Paris, the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Vilnius Philharmonic, the RHOM Theatre Kyoto among others. During these concerts, Manon shares the stage with many artists: Renaud Capuçon, Corina Belcea, the Modigliani, Hermès or Zaïde quartets, François Salque, Marie Chilemme, Patrick Messina, Marie-Joseph Judde, Marc Coppey, the Arnold trio...
Manon Galy founded the Zeliha Trio in 2018 with Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan and Maxime Quennesson. Their first album released in 2020 on the Mirare label was critically acclaimed (5 diapason, 5 stars from Classica, Editor's choice at Gramophone magazine...). They have just released a new album dedicated to the 2nd trios of Schubert and Shostakovich. "Nuits Parisiennes", a record released in February 2024 as a duo with pianist Jorge Gonzalez-Buajasan, was awarded a Diapason d'Or of the year and 5 stars from Classica. Her studies took her from the CRR in Toulouse to the CRR in Paris, then from the CNSMD in Paris to the Hochschule in Munich with Julia Fischer, via the Philippe Jaroussky academy. She is currently an artist in residence with the Zeliha trio at the Chapelle Musicale Reine Elisabeth in Waterloo.
Chiara Skerath
Critically acclaimed for her "brilliant technique" and "velvety timbre", Belgian-Swiss soprano Chiara Skerath recently made notable debuts in the roles of Eurydice in Gluck's Orphée et Eurydice at the Opernhaus Zürich, Ilione in Campra's Idoménée at the Staatsoper Berlin as well as Micaela in Carmen at the Opéra National de Bordeaux.
More recently, we note her interpretation of Mélisande in Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande at the Festival Aix-en-Provence 2024, the concert of Rinaldo at the Festival d'Opéra Baroque de Beaune, where she sang Armida for the first time, as well as her debut in the role of Donna Elvira in a new production of Don Giovanni at the Opéra de Lille, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm; she thus continues her journey in the lyric soprano repertoire. She also sings Almirena (Rinaldo, Handel) with Les Accents at the Palau de la Musica Catalana in Barcelona and at the Auditorio Nacional de Musica in Madrid, and she performs in Mendelssohn's Vom Himmel Hoch with Laurence Equilbey as well as in a staged version of Mozart's Mass in C minor at the Opéra de Limoges.
During the 2024/25 season, she will tour the UK, Italy and Spain with The English Concert for several concerts of Handel's Messiah. The season also includes Schubert's Mass in A flat major with the Orchestre National d'Ile de France, Micaela in Carmen at the Opéra Royal de Versailles, song recitals including Duparc, Fauré, Poulenc, Satie and Weill, with Antoine Palloc, who notably conducts her at the Opéra de Lille.
Chiara has already performed numerous Mozartian roles including Zerlina (Don Giovanni) at the Versailles Opera and Drottningholm Slottstheater, Despina (Così fan tutte) at the Oper Frankfurt, Licenza (Il Sogno di Scipione) with the Classical Opera Company, Servilia (La Clemenza di Tito) at the Rouen Opera, Ninetta (La finta semplice) at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, Susanna (Le nozze di Figaro) at the Operklosterneuburg Festival, Ilia (Idomoneo) for the Opéra Avignon, Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) at the Opéra de Saint-Etienne, and Cinna (Lucio Silla) at the Theater an der Wien, and at La Seine Musicale Paris, at the Opéra de Versailles and at the Philharmonie de Paris. Her repertoire also includes the title role in Montiverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea for Opéra Anger-Nantes, Rosalinde in Die Fledermaus for the Opéra Comique, Megacle in Vivaldi's L'Olimpiade, and Erste Dame in Die Zauberflöte as well as Clothilde in Francesconi's Trompe-la-Mort at the Opéra National de Paris.
In concert, she sings Handel's Agrippina condotto a morire with Le Concert d'Astrée, Apollo e Dafne with Harry Bicket and The English Concert, Messiah with La Chapelle Harmonique, Mozart's Requiem with Les Musiciens du Louvre and his Mass in C minor with the Ensemble Matheus, Brahms's Ein Deutsches Requiem with the choir of Radio France, arias by Gluck and Myslivecek with the Mozartists at the Wigmore Hall in London, Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with B'Rock, and Haydn's Die Schöpfung at the Salzburg Festival. She has sung under the baton of renowned conductors including Christian Thielemann, Marc Minkowski, Susana Malkki, Thomas Hengelbrock, Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Ben Glassberg, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon and Ingo Metzmacher.
Chiara's discography includes Pelléas et Mélisande and La Clemenza di Tito for Alpha Classics, Der Freischütz for Erato, Scylla et Glaucus by Leclair and Salve Regina and Saeviat Tellus by Handel for Château de Versailles Spectacles, and music by Jommelli, Haydn and Traetta for the Mozartists' Sturm und Drang series, and Iris in Handel's Semele for Ricecar. Chiara Skerath is a prizewinner of several international competitions including the Queen Elisabeth Competition, the Nadia and Lili Boulanger Competition, and the Emmerich Smola Prize. After studying with Glenn Chambers at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, she continued her studies of German Lied and French Mélodie at the Royaumont Foundation with Ruben Lifschitz.
Orchestra of the Savoy region conducted by Pieter-Jelle de Boer
The Orchestre des Pays de Savoie is a professional chamber orchestra, composed of 23 permanent musicians (19 strings, 2 oboes, 2 horns), under the musical direction of Pieter-Jelle de Boer since September 2021. Created in 1984, under the impetus of the Departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie, the Rhône-Alpes Region and the Ministry of Culture, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie has had as musical directors Patrice Fontanarosa, Tibor Varga, Mark Foster, Graziella Contratto and Nicolas Chalvin.
The Orchestre des Pays de Savoie is a member of the national network of permanent orchestras in the region. It designs and develops a range of concerts for a varied audience, broadcast on the road all year round in Savoie, Haute-Savoie, the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in France and abroad. With 80 concerts given each year, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie promotes its activity throughout the region by establishing partnerships with cultural stakeholders (associations, festivals, national stages, etc.), local authorities and the economic sector.
Since its creation, the Orchestre des Pays de Savoie has been strongly committed to raising awareness of classical music among all audiences, thanks to numerous interventions in schools and universities, hospitals, prisons and retirement homes. The Orchestre des Pays de Savoie has earned its place and reputation in the national musical landscape. Its musical excellence and the variety of its repertoire, its major guest artists, its wide territorial diffusion, its involvement in the training and integration of young professional musicians and its actions to raise awareness of music, constitute the main axes of a proactive policy of cultural development of the territory and broadening the audiences of music.
The Orchestre des Pays de Savoie is supported by the Haute-Savoie Departmental Council, the Savoie Departmental Council, the Ministry of Culture (DRAC Auvergne Rhône-Alpes), the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes Region and by its Amadeus corporate sponsor club.
