The prize-winning French composer Laurent Petitgirard has earned acclaim for his unusually powerful theatrical imagination. His strikingly creative ballet score for Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince) was first performed at the Avignon Opera in May 2010. Petitgirard centres his score around a chorus, alternating instrumental sonorities to remarkable effect, and evoking the essence of Antoinede Saint-Exupéry’s text in its movement from dream to reality, and from mystery to innocence. Laurent Petitgirard is an eclectic musician whose career as a composer of operas, symphonic music and film music is matched by his activity as a guest conductor the world over. He became music director of the Orchestre Colonne in Paris in 2005 and was re-elected from December 2012 until June 2017.
- Budapest Studio Choir and Honvéd Male Choir
- Soloists of the Hungarian Symphony Orchestra Budapest
- Laurent Petitgirard