Au Louvre - operas, airs de cour and songs in the Royal Palace
Festival commission
Adèle Charvet (France) – mezzo-soprano
Le Poème Harmonique (France)
Vincent Dumestre (France) –theorbo, artistic direction
In the face of the pandemic, Le Poème Harmonique and Kromer Festival Biecz had to abandon their original, daring plans. However, in order not to leave the audience without the performance of such renowned artists, Vincent Dumestre proposed a stunning alternative – a programme that presents a spectrum of wonderful works that in the times of Henry IV and Louis XIV sounded in the chambers of the Louvre Palace heralding the arrival of Versailles’ splendour. We will hear fragments from ballets de cour, popular songs, and finally, arias from the first operas by Cavalli and Lully staged at the Parisian court. It is a testimony to the emerging power of French culture.
Repertoire
I. In the salons of the Louvre
Jean-Baptiste Lully – Plainte de Vénus sur la mort d’Adonis (from Ballet de Flore)
Michel-Richard de Lalande – Musette
Michel-Richard de Lalande – Marche des Bergers
Michel-Richard de Lalande – Tambourin
Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Air sur les Stances du Cid
Etienne Moulinié – L’auzel que sul boyssou
Anonim – Le bossu maumariée
Anonim – Quand je menais les chevaux boire
II. At the opera
Francesco Cavalli – Sinfonia (from Egisto)
Francesco Cavalli – Sinfonia (from Ercole amante)
Francesco Cavalli – Dell’ antro magico (from Il Giasone)
Francesco Cavalli – Luci miei (from Xerse)
Giovanni Battisa Buonamente – Aria di Fiorenza
Francesco Cavalli – E vuol dunque Cipringa (from Ercole amante)
Francesco Cavalli – Piangete occhi dolenti (from Egisto)
Contact
Culture Center of Biecz
ul. Rynek 18 38-340 Biecz
tel: 13 4471 034
e-mail: ok@biecz.pl
www.okbiecz.pl
Artistic director
Paweł Szczepanik
e-mail: director@kromerfestivalbiecz.pl
Media
Georgina Gryboś
tel: +48 791 633 933
e-mail: pr@kromerfestivalbiecz.pl
Production
Jakub Strycharz
tel: +48 539 22 11 00
© Kromer Festival Biecz 2020. The organizers reserve the right to change the program.