The oldest symphony orchestra in France, the Orchester Pasdeloup celebrated its 160th anniversary in 2021. Under the impetus of its president Marianne Rivière, a violinist elected by the musicians, it performs an eclectic repertoire, ranging from great classical masterpieces to contemporary compositions, passing through musicals or new creations with jazz, cinema, body arts or multi-orchestras.

Pasdeloup Orchestra
Jean-François Verdier, director
Béatrice Malleret, choir director

Incanto vocal ensemble, conducted by Arlinda Roux Majollari
Versailles Chamber Choir, conducted by Arlinda Roux Majollari
“Opera Lyre” vocal ensemble, conducted by Béatrice Malleret
Sorbonne University Choir, direction Frédéric Pineau
Choir Variatio, direction Jean-Marie Puissant

And participatory choir

Program
Gioachino Rossini
William Tell, Overture

Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco, "Go, thinker"
Macbeth, “Patria oppressed! »
I Lombardi alla prima crociata, 4th act, “O Signore dal tetto natìo”
La Traviata, “Noi siamo zingarelle” (Gypsy Choir)
Aida, Triumphal Scene

Ottorino Respighi
Pines of Rome

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Italian Capriccio

The Orchester Pasdeloup has hundreds of singers from the great choirs of Italian opera sing in a monumental concert.

Some of these choral pages took on political connotations: Va, pensiero, the song of the Hebrew prisoners in Babylon in Verdi's Nabucco, was interpreted at the time as a symbol of Italy under Austrian domination.