Les Arts Florissants & Le Jardin des Voix / William Christie
Purcell's The Fairy Queen
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Recorded live at TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal Utrecht, 30 August 2023
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About this concert
Feel free to call it a gala, this evening of opera. One: with William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, there is early music royalty on stage. Two: the already legendary eminences bring the stars of the future with them - 11 young singers building their way to the top in Christie's opera academy Le Jardin des Voix. Three: the music of Purcell, the Orpheus Britannicus who pretty much single-handedly coloured the picture of the English Baroque.
The Fairy Queen is perhaps Purcell's best-loved work and at the same time also an ode to William Shakespeare. His A Midsummer Night's Dream is fitted with a Baroque twist, a century after the fact. Power, refinement, melancholy and humour: this gem has lost nothing of its enchantment.
Programme
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Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen (1692)
libretto: anonymous, after William Shakespeares A Midsummer Night's Dream1659-1695
Musicians
- Le Jardin des Voix
- Paulina Francisco soprano
- Georgia Burashko, Rebecca Leggett, Juliette Mey mezzo-soprano
- Rodrigo Carreto, Ilja Aksionov tenor
- Hugo Herman-Wilson baritone
- Benjamin Schilperoort baritone-bass
- Les Arts Florissants
- Sébastien Marq recorder
- Pier Luigi Fabretti oboe
- Nathalie Petibon oboe, recorder
- Yanina Yacubsohn tenor oboe
- Evolène Kiener bassoon, recorder
- Emmanuel Resche-Caserta (concertmaster), Augusta Mckay Lodge (concertmaster), Catherine Girard, Jeffrey Girton, Christophe Robert, Michèle Sauvé, Tami Troman violin
- Lucia Peralta, Simon Heyerick viola
- Nicholas Milne viola da gamba
- Félix Knecht, Elena Andreyev, Magdalena Probe cello
- Hugo Abraham double bass
- Serge Tizac, Rupprecht Drees trumpet
- Gabriel Rignol lute
- Marie-Ange Petit timpani
- Benoît Hartoin harpsichord, organ
- Samuel Florimond, Anahi Passi, Ian Debono, Joey Gertin dance (The Juilliard School)
- Mourad Merzouki choreography, semi-staging
- Anahi Passi choreography (assistant)
- William Christie musical direction
- William Christie, Paul Agnew artistic direction Jardin des Voix
- Sophie Daneman artistic advisor
- Claire Schirck costumes
- Fabrice Sarcy light
About the performers
Founded in 1979 by William Christie, Les Arts Florissants is one of the best-known baroque-music ensembles in the world. Established in the name of creativity, pleasure and sharing, the Ensemble — which takes its name from a short opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier — has played a pioneering role in the revival of a repertoire that had been largely forgotten and which is now enjoyed across the globe in all the most prestigious concert houses. This pioneering spirit has never died, and Les Arts Florissants’ two artistic directors, William Christie and Paul Agnew, continue the Ensemble’s tradition of research and innovation today.
William Christie is the driving force behind one of the most exciting developments in early music over the past 30 years. Born in Buffalo, educated at Harvard and Yale universities, William Christie has lived in France since 1971. In 1979, he founded the ensemble Les Arts Florissants, thereby introducing the repertoire of seventeenth and eighteenth-century France to a very wide audience. In 2002, he founded Le Jardin des Voix, a biennial academy for young singers who, after participating, are bound to embark on international careers.