Image: (left) Jean-Yves Clément. Photo: Vahan Mardirossian, (middle) Svetlana Ustinova. Photo: Valentin Blokh, (right) Varduhi Yeritsyan. Photo: Yerevan
Performance: Reading of Poems by Anna Akhmatova
As part of the Festival Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo, please join us for a reading of poems by Anna Akhmatova.
6.30 pm Talk
‘Alexander Scriabin, pianist and poet’ with Jean-Yves Clément, writer, and Bruno Mantovani, artistic director of the festival, moderated by Tristan Labouret, musicologist
8 pm Concert
In a double recital punctuated by readings of Anna Akhmatova’s poems by Jean-Yves Clément and Svetlana Ustinova, Varduhi Yeritsyan presents the complete ‘Ten Piano Sonatas’ by Alexander Scriabin, a vast journey leading to the exalted climax of the ‘Tenth Sonata.’
The concert will last approximately 1h15 without intermission.