Gathered for the opening of Printemps du Lac, in Flourens, near Toulouse, the actress Julie Depardieu and the pianist Nathanaël Gouin are on stage this Saturday, in Flourens, near Toulouse. Just before returning to the public, they gave a moment to La Dépêche.
After delighting the public in the hall, this Saturday, Julie Depardieu and pianist Nathanaël Gouin found themselves on stage before another performance with seventy musicians from the Toulouse University Orchestra, in the evening. La Dépêche was able to meet these two artists just before the separate shows.
After collaborating on *Wonderful World*, they find themselves here around a project dedicated to the melodramas of Franz Liszt and *Chants du Rhin* by Georges Bizet, a rare genre mixing spoken text and music. “It was Nathanaël who introduced me to melodramas,” says Julie Depardieu. “I had never done one and I was immediately attracted.” For the pianist, these works already announce film music: “The composer writes music that accompanies each sentence of the story. Words and music move forward together.”
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An osmosis between words and music
This complementarity is at the heart of their work. “There must be a real osmosis between the two disciplines,” emphasizes Nathanaël Gouin. A vision shared by the actress: “The music gives depth to the words.”
Both also appreciate the literary richness of the texts performed, notably those of Gérard de Nerval. “It’s an immersion in a language of absolute richness,” believes Julie Depardieu. “It’s very 19th century, very ornate, but so pretty.”
Music also occupies an essential place in the actress’s life. “From the age of fifteen, it became my home,” she confides. Passionate about opera and classical music, she has always drawn from it a source of emotion and inspiration. For his part, Nathanaël Gouin refuses to see the piano as a solitary instrument: “It is above all a means of communication and sharing with other artists as well as with the public.”
“La Misérable”
Julie Depardieu established herself in cinema in the 1990s thanks to her sensitive and unique acting. Awarded three Césars, she also has a career in theater and television, notably in the series *Alexandra Ehle*. Today she participates in several shows combining theater and music. She is currently rehearsing *La Miserable*, a play dedicated to Juliette Drouet, the companion of Victor Hugo, whose tour will begin in the fall.
Nathanaël Gouin is one of the most noted French pianists of his generation. Trained in Toulouse, Paris and at the Juilliard School in New York, he has an international career as a soloist and chamber musician. His album *Bizet sans mots* was notably rewarded with a Diapason d’or. To find out more about its news: https://www.nathanaelgouin.com/fr/
Alain Pebrocq-Favier
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