A Nocte Temporis & Chœur de Chambre de Namur
Marin Marais’s Opera Alcide
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Livestream from Utrecht, TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal on 4 September 2026 at 20:00
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About this concert
Hero, demigod, hopelessly in love: in Alcide, Hercules finds himself in the midst of a drama full of passion, jealousy, and fate. With this tragédie en musique, Marin Marais and Louis Lully – son of – created a worthy successor to the operas of the great Jean-Baptiste: faithful to the spirit of Versailles, but with an unmistakable touch of their own.
Sizzling recitatives, captivating dances, a mad scene, and even a descent into the underworld: this is Baroque musical theatre at its most spectacular. Reinoud Van Mechelen, his ensemble A Nocte Temporis, and the Chœur de Chambre de Namur bring this forgotten Parisian sensation from 1693 back to life.
At the same time, Alcide is a rare tour de force: the opera was recently reconstructed in collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and calls for an exceptionally large cast of soloists, choir, and orchestra – pure splendour of the French court.
With an introduction by Annelies Andries (19:15 hrs, in Dutch) and a Q&A session (after the concert, in English), both taking place in the Fentener van Vlissingen Foyer (limited capacity)
Also live on www.emtv.online.
Programme
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Marin Marais / Louis Lully
Alcide, tragédie lyrique, 1693
Programme subject to change1656-1728 / 1664-1734
Musicians
- Reinoud Van Mechelen Alcide, musical direction
- Gwendoline Blondeel Iole, La Victoire
- Isabelle Druet Déjanire
- Philippe Estèphe Philoctète
- Sterre Decru Thestylis
- Choeur de Chambre de Namur
- A Nocte Temporis
- Elise Dupont concert master, violin solo
- Izana Soria, Marrie Mooij violin I
- Madoka Nakamaru, Ortwin Lowyck violin II
- Isabelle Verachtert taille de violon
- Ingrid Bourgeois, Wendy Ruymen haute-contre de violon
- Manuela Bucher quinte de violon
- Ronan Kernoa, Clémence Schiltz viola da gamba
- Edouard Catalan, Mathilde Wolfs basse de violon
- Loris Barrucand harpsichord
- Isabel Favilla bassoon
- Besson Anna Besson, Sein Huybrechts traverso
- Shunsuke Kawai, NTB oboe
- Thomas Langlois theorbo
- Marie-Ange Petit percussion
- Julian Zimmermann trumpet
About the performers
Tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen founded A Nocte Temporis in 2016. The ensemble started as a chamber music group and has since grown into a baroque orchestra. The ensemble has released highly acclaimed CDs featuring music by composers such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Their album of music by Louis-Nicolas Clérambault has been awarded several honours, including a CHOC de Classica, a Diapason d’Or, a Diamant d’Opéra, and a Le Choix de France Musique.
Reinoud Van Mechelen graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Brussels in 2012 in the class of Dina Grossberger. Even then he already attracted attention at talent programmes such as the Académie Baroque Européenne d'Ambronay and Le Jardin des Voix, the academy of Les Arts Florissants. Van Mechelen's interpretations, as sensitive as they are virtuosic, earned him the 2017 Caecilia Prize Young Musician of the Year from the Belgian music press. Van Mechelen is in demand with practically all the outstanding early music ensembles of the moment, including Le Concert Spirituel, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Poème Harmonique, Il Gardellino, L'Arpeggiata and Collegium Vocale Gent. He is also causing a furore in musical circles with his own ensemble A Nocte Temporis, including the rediscovery of the Baroque's most illustrious 'haute-contres'.