Chants libres

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Bettencourt Foundation is offering Chants libre, a season of choral art in France. Several ensembles perform over a hundred performances, with the aim of supporting the activity of the choral sector and allowing moments of encounter with the French, in particular the most fragile and those furthest removed from cultural practices.

CHANTS LIBRES

Les Métaboles
Léo Warynski, direction

 

2026

June

Sunday, June 28 2026 - 3:00 pmAprès un rêveThéâtre municipal d'Autun - Chants libres, Cité de la Voix

 From Renaissance polyphony to contemporary works, Après un rêve traces a vocal journey from Josquin Desprez to Ondrej Adamek, via Brahms, Fauré, Debussy, and Ravel. Les Métaboles, in a small ensemble, present a sensitive and poetic program...

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Saturday, June 27 2026Requiem de MozartThéâtre romain d'Autun - Chants libres, Cité de la Voix

A major masterpiece and the greatest mystery in the history of music, Mozart’s Requiem will be performed in a version completed by Michael Ostrzyga, faithful to the composer’s spirit. This legendary work is presented in a fresh light, introduced by Philippe Hersant’s *À Mnémosyne*, serving as a poetic and meditative prelude before the dramatic intensity of the Requiem unfolds.

Featuring the Orchestre de la Garde républicaine and the participation of the amateur choirs L’Aubade, Chorustodunum,Divertimento, La Petite Cantate, Singall, A Grand Vent.

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Friday, June 26 2026 Brigades musicalesAutun - Chants libres, La cité de la Voix

Musical moments offered by Les Métaboles in a small group (four singers, generally) who perform in the city in order to reach a wide audience

Friday, June 26 2026Voix SculptéesCathédrale d'Autun - Chants Libres, Cité de la Voix

This program spans over three centuries of history, notably revealing the aesthetic shock experienced by 19th-century French composers upon discovering the beauties of the Italian Renaissance. A journey conceived by conductor Léo Warynski and his ensemble Les Métaboles, a revelation in recent years in the field of choral music.

Wednesday, June 24 2026 Brigades musicalesAutun - Chants libres, La cité de la Voix

Musical moments offered by Les Métaboles in a small group (four singers, generally) who perform in the city in order to reach a wide audience

2025

June

Sunday, June 29 2025 - 04:00 pmSinging RavelL'Hexagone à Autun - Chants Libres, Cité de la Voix

Chants libres is the festival proposed by the Bettencourt - Schueller Foundation

Saturday, June 28 2025 - 09:00 pmOmbre et splendeurCathédrale d'Autun - Chants Libres, Cité de la Voix

Chants libres is the festival proposed by the Bettencourt - Schueller Foundation

Friday - June 27 2025 - 08:00 pmOuest SideThéâtre municipal d'Autun - Chants Libres, Cité de la Voix

Les Métaboles and the Academy of Choir Directors of the Cité de la Voix in Vézelay are offering a major concert featuring American and French music from the 20th and 21st centuries.

2024

June

Sunday, June 30 - 3:30 pmNightfallÉglise Notre-Dame - Talant

A program around melodies from France, America and Germany, some very well known, others more rare...

Meredith Monk Night fall ; Eric Whitacre Waternight ; Philip Glass Three songs for a cappella choir ; Camille Saint-Saens Calme des Nuits ; Gabriel Fauré, Alexander L’Estrange (arrgment) Après un rêve ; Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Brice Légée (arrgment): Clairs de Lune ; Claude Debussy, Trois chanson ; Franz Schubert, Christophe Looten (arrgment): Erlkönig ; Camille Saint-Saens , Thibaut Perrine (Arrgment) Danse macabre

Saturday, June 29 2024 - 4:00 pmCinq continentsCité internationale de la gastronomie et du vin - Dijon

32 chanteurs, l'Orchestre d'harmonie de Tonnerre, le choeur du Tonnerrois et la Maîtrise de Dijon pour un concert réunissant des oeuvres d'Offenbach, Sibelius, Grieg, Verdi, Bregovic, Gimenez....

Friday, June 28 2024 - 8:00 pmNightfallMédiathèque de l'Hôtel Dieu - Dôle

A program around melodies from France, America and Germany, some very well known, others more rare...

Meredith Monk Night fall ; Eric Whitacre Waternight ; Philip Glass Three songs pour choeur a cappella ; Camille Saint-Saens Calme des Nuits ; Gabriel Fauré, Alexander L’Estrange (arrgment) Après un rêve ; Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Brice Légée (arrgment): Clairs de Lune ; Claude Debussy, Trois chanson ; Franz Schubert, Christophe Looten (arrgment): Erlkönig ; Camille Saint-Saens , Thibaut Perrine (Arrgment) Danse macabre

2023

June

Sunday, June 25 2023 - 04:00 pmusine à rêves Chants libres - La Compagnie Dumas à Tonnerre

 

32 singers conducted by Léo Warynski with a program that will bring together many composers: Veljo Tormis, Franz Schubert, Camille Saint-Saëns, Maurice Ravel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Eric Whitacre and Jacques Offenbach...

Saturday, June 24 2023 - 09:30 pmVox NaturaeChants libres - Esplanade de la Basilique de Vézelay

The Canadian composer Raymond Murray Schafer has developed in his music a most singular philosophical approach, his vocal works seeking to establish a spiritual link with Nature, by creating real soundscapes, drawing inspiration for this from Native American culture. The vocal ensemble Les Métaboles excels in the interpretation of this metaphysical repertoire. Completed by a piece by Estonian composer Veljo Tormis, this concert is set in motion by choreographer Éric Oberdorff, assuring the public of an extraordinary mystical experience.

Thursday, June 22 2023 - 08:30 pmMétamorphose(s)Chants libres - Église Notre-Dame de Noyers

Les Métaboles and the cellist Marc Coppey, offer a program under the sign of metamorphosis. Some works are transformed, such as a Chaconne by Bach and Agnus Dei by Barber, transcribed for cello and choir. Others translate the metamorphosis musically, such as the eponymous work by Philippe Hersant inspired by the four seasons or the creation of the Japanese composer Noriko Baba. The ultimate change of state, that of passing from life to death, is explored in John Tavener's Svyati.

2021

December

Sunday, December 19 2021 - 5 pmChants libresHalle Verrière - Meisenthal

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. The concert will take place at the Halle Verrière of the Meisenthal International Center for Glass Art

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Saturday, December 18 2021 - 5 pmChants libresÉglise Saint-Matthieu - Colmar

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation.

The concert will take place at the Saint-Matthieu church in Colmar with the Maîtrise de Garçons de Colmar

Friday, December 17 2021Chants libresÉpiceries solidaires et Ephad de Mulhouse et Colmar

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants Libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. Musical "surges" will take place in solidarity grocery stores and EPHADs in Mulhouse and Colmar

Thursday, December 16 2021 - 7 pmChants libresCentre Pompidou - Metz

After Enchantons l'été in 2020, the Métaboles are participating in Chants libres, a musical season organized by the Bettencourt-Shueller Foundation. The concert will take place at the Centre Pompidou-Metz

2020

July

Friday, July 10 2020 - 19 pmJardin en-chanté - Enchantons l'étéChâteau de la Neuenbourg - Guebwiller (Alsace)

Ensemble enchantons l’été

Surprise concert in the gardens of the Château de la Neuenbourg, as part of "Ensemble enchantons d'été", a vocal happening of the Bettencourt-Schueller Foundation