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23 October 2025 Paris (France)
Dracula
Orchestre de Paris conducted by Frank Strobel - Philharmonie de Paris, Grande salle Pierre Boulez
Program Info: Paris Orchestra Choir of the Paris Orchestra Youth Choir of the Paris Orchestra Frank Strobel , conductor Richard Wilberforce , choirmaster Rémi Aguirre Zubiri , associate choirmaster Edwin Baudo , Associate Choir Director Désirée Pannetier , associate choir director Béatrice Warcollier , associate choir director
Wojciech Kilar - Dracula Film by Francis Ford Coppola, United States and United Kingdom, 1992, French premiere of the concert version
By turns mysterious, terrifying, soothing, and warm, Dracula 's score is one of Wojcieck Kilar's finest achievements. Audiences have been warned : it is the music, even more than the vampire, that will take over their souls !
Published in 1897, Bram Stoker's Dracula remains one of the most popular novels in English literature and, in epistolary form, constitutes a profound meditation on evil, solitude, the human condition and the possibility of love. Cinema, of course, has not remained indifferent to this most famous of vampire stories : more or less faithfully, the novel has given rise to more than thirty adaptations, the most famous of which remain Nosferatu Murnau's (1922) and Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) with Bela Lugosi in the title role.
When Francis Ford Coppola decided in 1991 to deliver his own version, which was intended to be very close to Stoker's text, he called upon the Polish composer Wojcieck Kilar, a former student of Nadia Boulanger who was well-versed in symphonic music. The latter, inspired by the fable, structures his score around the two aspects of Dracula, menace and sensuality, weaving a dense network of leitmotifs carried by sumptuous harmonies, striking solos (viola, bass flute), and the nocturnal presence of the choir.
Film concert produced by Fimucité (Tenerife International Film Music Festival) and FMF (Krakow Film Music Festival) in cooperation with Sony Pictures, Robert Townson Productions and Europäische FilmPhilharmonie - EFPI
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