Passion Schumann : Amour, génie et folie

Passion Schumann offers a journey into the intimate and creative universe 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 not an activity separate from life: it was life itself.

The show traverses various moments of this story through works for violin and piano and for piano four hands, accompanied by narrative interventions that reveal the circumstances, connections, and 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 sides of a passionate, imaginative, and deeply literary composer. One hears Clara’s voice, not only as Robert’s companion, muse, and performer, but also as an extraordinary artist and creator in her own right, through her Trois Romances, op. 22.

Around Robert and Clara also appear some of the major figures of nineteenth-century music.

Passion Schumann does not seek to tell a biography in a conventional way. The show invites you to enter their home, open their letters and books, listen to their conversations, and discover how a friendship could turn into music, how a name could hide in the heart of a score...