Pia Segerstam, principal cellist of the Montpellier National Orchestra, and Héloïse Dautry, concert pianist and harp professor at the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole Regional Conservatory, take us on a musical journey, a mixture of fantasy, meditation, and reverie.

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Cello/harp duo

This concert-reading does not seek to recount a biography, but rather to embrace the very movement of his music: an outpouring, a resistance, a tenacious love song addressed to existence. The chosen works—quartets, lieder, pieces for piano and cello—converse with the composer's intimate writings. His letters, his journal of his growing deafness, his yearnings for "joy" long before the Ninth Symphony  : all of this becomes a narrative. Between the readings, the instruments and the sung voice transform pain into momentum, silence into strength. This is the third time this exceptional ensemble has reunited, following the Quartet for the End of Time (reopening of the Opéra Comédie in 2020) and The Seven Last Words of Christ . The same commitment remains: to make the concert a visceral experience, where each note becomes an ode to life, both fierce and luminous.

Beethoven, an ode to life

Opéra Comédie

Pia Segerstam, solo cellist of the Montpellier National Orchestra and Héloïse Dautry, concert performer and harp professor at the Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole Regional Conservatory, take us on a musical journey, a mixture of fantasy, meditation and reverie.

Pia Segerstam

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Mar 6, 2027

Beethoven, an ode to life · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

Apr 4, 2027

Cello and harp duo · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

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Sep 28, 2025

Cello/harp duo · Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier

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