The Franco-Cuban sonata by Roberto Fonseca and Vincent Ségal at the Nuits de Fourvière

Even more than the ancient Theatre of Lugdunum, the adjoining Odeon, although more modest, with its capacity of 1,200 seats, is a place devoted to music, since it resonated there from the 2nd ^century AD. As the setting, like its neighbor, for the multidisciplinary festival of Nuits de Fourvière, whose ^76th edition began on June 2 and continues until July 26, it was the perfect place to host a concert premiere on Sunday, June 15: the dialogue between a Cuban pianist, Roberto Fonseca, and a former student of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon, the cellist Vincent Ségal.

The second, who became known at the end of the 1990s with Bumcello, a duo formed with the drummer and percussionist Cyril Atef , recalled, on the hill, his years in Lyon: "I lived down there, in Saint-Paul [a district of Old Lyon] and I went back and forth to Fourvière to party there," he reminded the spectators. Since then, Vincent Ségal has returned there several times, but on stage, in the company of the Malian kora player Ballaké Sissoko or the Egarés, a quartet formed with the same musician , the accordionist Vincent Peirani and the saxophonist Emile Parisien, who won the Victoire du jazz for concert of the year in 2024.

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