Marianne Pousseur
While studying classical singing and chamber music at the Conservatory of Liege, Marianne Pousseur has sung in both ensembles directed by Philippe Herreweghe, Collegium Vocale and La Chapelle Royale.
She performs regularly with ensembles such as the Schoenberg Ensemble in The Hague, (direction Reinbert de Leeuw), Remix Porto, Die Reihe Vienna, etc.. and with the Ensemble Intercontemporain, particularly under the direction of Pierre Boulez, in a repertoire essentially turned the twentieth century, the creation and musical theatre.
For her, George Aperghis composed in 2004 "Dark Side", created in Athens with the Ensemble Intercontemporain. After this, they decided to work together again on "Ismene" poem by Yannis Ritsos, transformed into an opera for solo voice and created in 2008.
In collaboration with Enrico Bagnoli, she staged several musical theatre creations include: "Songbooks" and John Cage's "Song of darkness", a show built from songs by Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht. "Babar" by Poulenc, with Leonardo da Vinci Orchestra conducted by Oswald Sallaberger. With the same collaborators, she also designs a staging of "L’enfant et les sortilèges" by Maurice Ravel. Ismene (2008) and Phèdre (2013),Ajax (2015), I was looking at the cieling and then I saw the sky (2018), “Madrigali, dialogues avec la lumière” (2022).
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