What you’ll hear and see
The music
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier Les Arts florissants La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers
The artists
- Les Arts Florissants
- William Christie conducting, harpsichord, organ
- Josipa Bilić dessus
- Camille Chopin dessus
- Sarah Fleiss dessus
- Tanaquil Ollivier dessus
- Sydney Frodsham bas-dessus
- Richard Pittsinger haute-contre
- Bastien Rimondi haute-contre
- Attila Varga-Tóth taille
- Olivier Bergeron basse-taille
- Kevin Arboleda-Oquendo bass
- Noémie Larcheveque dance
- Claire Graham dance
- Andrea Scarfi dance
- Tom Godefroid dance
- Stéphane Facco directing
- Marie Lambert-Le Bihan directing
- Martin Chaix choreography
- Eleanor Freeman assistance to the choreography
Where does the famous baroque ensemble Les Arts Florissants get its name from?
Look no further: it is simply the title of a piece by the French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, which you’ll get to hear during this concert. Written during the reign of Louis XIV, aka The Sun King, this opera sounds just as charming as its name and was intended to be «a musical romance». By contrast, the second half of the concert will recount a much more tragic love story: that of the mythological poet Orpheus who undertook a journey to hell in order to save his fiancee from the shackles of death…Details
- Date Sunday 19.10.25
- Time 19:30
- Duration 130' including a break
- Room Grand Auditorium
- Subscription Voyage dans le temps
Experience the concert as a part of the subscription: Voyage dans le temps
From Charpentier to Vivaldi and Bach, discover what «orchestra» meant back in the Baroque era!
