The 3rd edition of the Fest’académie The songs of Ulysses took place 5 at 13 July 2025
Teachers and stakeholders
The third edition takes place 5 at 13 July 2025
(Home on 4/07 at 6 p.m.)
It will welcome participants from 18 years (or accompanied minors)
Singing class and staging – Patricia Petibon
Singing class - David Levi
Singing chief class - Erika Guiomar
Instrument class :
Recorders and Baroque Oboe – Heloïse Gaillard
Baroque violin - Enrico Parizzi
Baroque cello – Cyril Chicken
Basson baroque – Laurent Le Chenadec
Harpsichord and baroque song chief - Marouan Mankar-Bennis
Singing Director- Erika Guimar et Joseph Birnbaum
Musical improvisation class - Thierry Escaich
Chamber music class : open to sets already formed
Workshops :
Pilates – Emma Delahaye
Choreographer and staging - Raphaël Cottin
Costumes : Zelia
Makeup and hairstyle : Angelique Humeau
Two movements will be reintroduced in the Gloria as it was practiced at the time 2025
The events presented below are also accessible to the public
Meetings/conferences with artistic and scientific personalities
SATURDAY 5 July 2025 – 18h -Meeting with Jérôme Delafosse explorer, director, actor and writer. Film screening Hvaldimir The True History of the Beluga Spy (52min) and conference. Free entry at the Le Dôme theater in Saumur.
Sunday 6 July 2025 – 17h30 – Meeting between the astrophysicist Patrick Michel and the academic writer, psychiatrist Raphael Gaillard.
Titre : Spatial exploration and the game of intelligence
OWe have our heads ?
From 10 p.m. at the Rou-Marson greenery amphitheater– Visit the sky under the stars with the astrophysicist Patrick Michel
Free access for all to these events
A Cine-Concert at St Pierre de Saumur church, With Thierry Escaich
mardi 8 July 2025 – 21h – Film screening The passion of Joan of Arc de Carl Theodor Dreyer (1928) with support for the organ of Thierry Escaich, Composer and organist holder of the Notre Dame de Paris cathedral. Film duration : 114 min. Ticketing with Le Grand Palace cinema in Saumur (5,50€).
A day at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud
Wednesday 9 July (afternoon)
14h30 Musical performance of the participants of the Fest’academie with a visual artist at the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud
16h30 Conference Fabrice Desjours, Creator of "La Forêt Gourmande" , auteur, speaker, scientific bodies interlocutor, free explorer of the Hortus, from the design of wooded gardens to the associated meals. Meeting title : “A gourmet forest for all the alert senses or how to re -enchant the world “
from 6 p.m. Musical walk & Aperitif with the teachers of the Fest’academie
Aperitif offered with the partnership of Bouvet-Ladubay.
Free access to all these events from 9/07 As part of an entry fee for the Fontevraud site.
The closing concert at the Le Dôme Theater
The closing concert – 13 July 2025 at 17 o'clock At the Le Dôme de Saumur theater, With participants and teachers of the Fest’academie (Free entry - Reservation strongly recommended)