Concert «Like a fine sound dust of barbaric melancholy»

By the duo Superphenix: Lucie Edel, mezzo-soprano and Raphaël Béreau, guitarist

Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September

Through the museum spaces, the duo Superphenix, composed of mezzo-soprano Lucie Edel and guitarist Raphaël Béreau, distills during musical moments like a fine sound dust of barbaric melancholy , in the words of Claude Debussy to Pierre Louÿs during a trip to Spain. Designed around popular Spanish melodies, the program combines voice and guitar, in a rhythmic and accessible combination, combining vigorous and sensual choruses, and dreamy melodies.
Find the full programme on the museum website: www.bourdelle.paris.fr.THE SUPERPHENIX DUO
Lucie Edel and Raphaël Béreau meet when they are very young children. It is the year 1997 and the closure of the experimental nuclear reactor Superphénix makes a big noise in the media. 20 years later, Lucie is a lyrical singer and Raphaël is a guitarist. It is to celebrate childhood memories and to remember that music must remain a game for them and an entertainment for the public that it takes the name of this nuclear reactor which, the year of their meeting, had so marked them. Superphénix’s project offers a resolutely modern and refreshing aesthetic of classical music. They propose a first program of popular Spanish melodies.
LUCIE EDEL, mezzo-soprano Lucie Edel studied at the Conservatoire de Paris and at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten before obtaining her singing diploma at the HEMU in Lausanne. She then devoted herself to concert repertoire: Dream of a summer night and Psalm 42 of Mendelssohn, Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt of C.P.E Bach, the Lobgesang of Mendessohn, Israel in Egypt of Haëndel, but also in the chamber music repertoire by performing the title roles of the cantatas of the Prix de Rome Diane de Godard, Médée de Hüe and Judith de Hillemacher. In June 2022, she created the duo Suphernix with guitarist Raphaël Béreau. At the opera Lucie plays Parthœnis in The Belle-Hélène of Offenbach, Titania in Kastner’s Les Cris de Paris, The Nymph of the Seine in Return of the Gods to Earth de Blamont, Beauty in the Forced marriage of Lully, The German Slave in the Cairo caravan de Grétry, Air Conditioning in Le Malade imaginaire de Charpentier, la Troisième dame dans la Flûte enchantée by Mozart, Sylphie in Echo and Narcisse by Glück.Lucie performs at the Opéra d'Avignon, the Opéra de Nantes, the Opéra d'Angers, the Atelier lyrique de Tourcoing, the Opéra de Massy, the Opéra Royal de Versailles, the Müpa in Budapest, the Concertgebouw in Bruges, the Flagey Room, the Biennial Congress CentreSoleure; under the direction of chefs such as Arie van Beek and Hervé Niquet.Lucie Edel won the Third Prize of the International Flame Competition in July 2019 and won the Honorable Prize of the Neapolitan Masters Competition in January 2022.
RAPHAËL BÉREAU, guitarist Raphaël Béreau is a professional classical guitarist graduated from the Ecole Normale de Paris where he was trained in the classes of Éric Lesage and Paul Meyer. In Montreal, he then obtained the Master of Interpretation class of Alvaro Pierri. With guitarist Tizoc Romero, he created in Vienna the Duo R2T2 which explores a vast repertoire of original works and personal arrangements. His career took on an international dimension with his participation in the Paris International Guitar Festival and two tours in India, mixing concerts and masterclass, Chamber musician accomplished, he is the winner of many international chamber music competitions: 1st prize at the Omis International Competition (Croatia, 2015), 1st prize unanimously at the Elche International Competition (Spain,2014), 1st prize at the Schweinfurt International Competition (Germany, 2014), the Audience Prize at the Valencia International Competition (Spain, 2012). Raphael multiplies travels and musical encounters making dialogue the guitar with other instruments: violin, double bass, flute, voice, string quartet, orchestra. He is currently preparing an album devoted to French music with violinist Jean-Samuel Bez with whom he had already recorded a work by Jacqueline Fontyn.