Passion Schumann - Amour, génie et folie

Passion Schumann offers a journey into the intimate and creative world of Robert and Clara Schumann, one of the most fascinating stories of Romanticism.

Music, love, literature, friendship and creation intertwine to bring back to life the world of two artists for whom art was never a separate activity from life: it was life itself.

The show moves through different moments of this story through works for violin and piano and for piano duet, accompanied by narrative interludes that reveal the circumstances, the connections and the secret codes hidden behind the scores: Robert Schumann's two Sonatas for violin and piano, Op.

105 and Op. 121, frame this journey and reveal two faces of a passionate, imaginative and deeply literary composer.

Clara's voice can be heard not only as companion, muse and performer of Robert's music, but also as an extraordinary artist and composer in her own right, through her Three Romances, Op. 22. Around Robert and Clara also appear some of the major figures of nineteenth-century music.

Passion Schumann does not attempt to tell a biography in a conventional way.

The show invites us into their home, to open their letters and books, to listen to their conversations and to discover how a friendship could turn into music, and how a name could be concealed at the heart of a score...