What do we feel when nature awakens in spring, during a summer thunderstorm or when we look at a grey winter sky full of white snowflakes? No composer shows how these feelings can sound as convincingly as Antonio Vivaldi. But how can what moves us be translated into movement? Together with the choreographer Mourad Merzouki and dancers from the Compagnie Käfig, the French ensemble Le Concert de la Loge brings Vivaldi's works, including the four concertos entitled The Four Seasons, to dance. Moving sounds, played on historical instruments, create moving scenes in which the solo violin becomes the heroine. Notes come together to form chords, people to form groups. Music and dance become a theatre full of dazzling colours, shapes and moments of happiness, in which birds sing, winds blow, farmers dance and even a dog barks. After 20 enthusiastically celebrated performances, the Vivaldi success story stops in Schwetzingen. Let yourself be carried away!

Le Concert de la Loge · Company Cage

Rococo Theater

A flame setting bodies and hearts ablaze, Don Giovanni consumes and consumes women in a frantic race that makes him feel alive. But in these endless conquests, isn't it, more than pleasure, the eager search for challenges that drives him? Isn't he a mirror of our addiction to desire, excitement, and consumption that leads us to the abyss?

For his staging of this essential Mozart opera, Jean-Yves Ruf invites the musicians of Julien Chauvin's Concert de la Loge onto the stage, in a unique scenography that favors all the porosity between instrumentalists and soloists. A complex version of Don Giovanni where the character oscillates between his inner slopes.

For this opera, ARCAL has opted for youth, with the cream of the rising generation of French singers for a vibrant and contemporary interpretation of this timeless myth.

Julien Chauvin

Events

Upcoming events

25 - 26 Apr, 2026

Don Giovanni · Clermont Auvergne Opéra

Past events

May 31, 2025

Le Concert de la Loge · Company Cage · SWR Symphonieorchester

Future and recently performed repertoire

Conductor in Don Giovanni by Mozart

Clermont Auvergne Opéra

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