Suzanne

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani returns to Suzanne several times between 2014 and 2021 as the sign of a historical change. He first presents her as the maidservant who has become a heroine, a figure of the new couple of the rising middle classes1. He stresses how new this is: a servant taking a leading role would have been unthinkable a generation earlier2. For him, she is no longer the soubrette of comedy, since she wants her own happiness3. For the first time, the servant becomes a full role in her own right, and even a dominant one4. He also describes her as the Countess's accomplice and sees in this bond the passage from a society of separation to a social mixing5. In a session devoted to Mozart, he calls her the first servant to hold a prima donna role, and he concludes that enjoyment is no longer reserved for aristocrats6.

1. 1I comme île23 Dec 2014 · 9:41
2. 2W comme Wolmar6 Jan 2015 · 3:52
3. 3Que faire ? 2/329 Jan 2016 · 4:58
4. 4#4.4B Objections à Dominique Pagani4 Feb 2018 · 8:58
5. 5#5.1 bis FaceBook Live / Questions2 Nov 2018 · 51:30
6. 6Musicosophie 13. Mozart restitué2 Feb 2021 · 1:16:42

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.