I SOLISTI & The Banquet / Jan Decleir & Marjan De Schutter - Fouché

I SOLISTI and Het Banket join forces again. This time they delve into the unlikely but true life story of Joseph Fouché, the most unknown protagonist of the Franse Revolutie. He changed camps like underwear, from one radical extreme to the other. He was a Catholic student-priest in his young years, but then showed himself to be a ruthless butcher of everyone who had anything to do with the faith. He defected from the Girondins to the Jacobins, the two extremes within the revolutionary movement. He was a fanatical royalist and then again a militant anti-royalist. The once radical revolutionary Fouché later became a minister in the service of Napoleon and ended his career as minister of police under King Louis XVIII. On new music by Frederik Neyrinck, Jan Decleir and Marjan De Schutter bring the story of Fouché to the stage. They are accompanied by the musicians of I SOLISTI and the young soprano Hanna Al-Bender. By putting a spotlight on this forgotten protagonist, they also shed light on the period in which we now live. In recent years, there has been a new interest in that fascinating period of our history. Perhaps because we have ended up in an era in which our familiar society is shaking to its foundations. Introduction at 19:15.