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In an Italian Garden / William Christie
ln an Italian Garden is a celebration of Christie’s great passion, ltalian lyric works from the 16th to 18th centuries, to be performed by instrumentalist of Les Arts Florissants and six outstanding young singers chosen from his master-class academy, Le Jardin des Voix. The first half of the concert...
Jacky Terrasson at the Olympia
The new album of Jacky Terrasson, rich of diversity and inspiration, is creating a dialogue between post-bob, pop, hip-hop, African, Caribbean and even classical musics. Various musicians accompanied him: the American bassist Travis Burniss, Cuban drummer Lukmil Perez, Malian percussionist Adama Dia...
JORDI SAVALL: TERRA NOSTRA, tribute to Planet Earth
As part of the 10th Music and History Festival for Intercultural Dialogue, under the direction of Jordi SAVALL, the Concert des Nations performs works by Marin Marais, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean Philippe Rameau, Matthew Locke, Antonio Vivaldi, and Jean Fery Rebel .
The 17th century sa...
JORDI SAVALL: THE ROUTES OF SLAVERY (1500- 1888)
This concert evokes the history of the slave routes and the slave trade from the memory of the oral traditions of the descendants of its victims in Brazil, Mali, Madagascar, Colombia, Mexico and Bolivia. It pays tribute to the victims of this terrible triangular trade (Europe, Africa and the New Wor...
Le Sacre du Tympan : tribute to FranÇois de Roubaix
Exceptional concert dedicated to François de Roubaix, French composer and electro pioneer, famous for his movie soundtracks and series theme tunes. This tribute is dedicated to the composer’s repertoire revised with synthesizers and electric instruments and with the participation of a DJ performanc...
Monteverdi’s Madrigals, Book VIII – Part 2
Paul Agnew’s monumental project to perform all eight books of Monteverdi’s madrigals in just four years seems as ambitious as performing the complete works of Bach! A bold challenge, like the work itself. Contained within these eight Books are the foundations of modern music, from the end of the Ren...
Rameau : Daphnis & Eglé / La Naissance d’Osiris
Two works that have rarely seen the light of day. Setting them alongside Rameau’s tragédies lyriques one might be tempted to dismiss them as flimsy entertainments but they reveal a world full of charm, humanity, sensuality, and grace. These are not pieces written for the opera houses of Paris but fo...
The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
Opéra in three acts
Music & libretto by Richard Wagner - Paris version (1842)
Paris in summer 1841 : during a few weeks, richard Wagner influenced by Romantic Opera, composes Der fliegende Holländer, which he will consider as the first opera worthy of his quill. The version written in the French ca...
The Musketeers at the Convent
Opérette in 3 acts by Louis Varney
Libretto by Jules Prével & Paul Ferrier adapted by Jérôme Deschamps
based on a vaudeville by St-Hilaire and Dupont entitled "L'habit ne fait pas le moine"
Created in Paris, at the Bouffes-Parisiens, on March 1880
"Musketeers! In a convent!", Residents not that ho...
