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Véronique Gens: Passion

Ordenskirche, St GeorgenSankt Georgen, Bayreuth, Bavaria, 95448, Germany
Dates/times in Berlin time zone
Sunday 10 September 202315:00
Festival: Bayreuth Baroque
Programme
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Persée : ouverture
Desmarets, Henry (1661-1741)Circé (Désirs, transports)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Proserpine, LW58 (Air II)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Ballet du temple de la paix (Entrée des Bretons)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Proserpine, LW58 (Ô malheureuse mère)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Proserpine, LW58 (Que tout se ressente)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Armide (Enfin il est en ma puissance)
Delalande et DestouchesLes Éléments (Air pour les néréides)
Delalande et DestouchesLes Éléments (Air pour les divinités)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Atys (Espoir si cher et si doux)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Ballet de la naissance de Vénus (Dieux des Enfers)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Le bourgeois gentilhomme (Canaries)Libretto by Molière
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Amadis (Toi qui dans ce tombeau)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Amadis (Prélude)
Collasse, Pascal (1649-1709)Achille et Polyxène (Calme tes déplaisirs)
Collasse, Pascal (1649-1709)Thétis et Pélée (Tempête)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Le Triomphe de l'Amour (Voici le favorable temps)
Desmarets, Henry (1661-1741)La Diane de Fontainebleau (Chœur du Sommeil)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Alceste (Pompe Funèbre)
Lully, Jean-Baptiste (1632-1687)Alceste (La mort, la mort barbare)
Delalande et DestouchesLes Éléments (Air pour les heures)
Rebel, François (1701-1775)Le Ballet de la Paix (Musette)
Rebel, François (1701-1775)Le Ballet de la Paix (Sarabande)
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (1643-1704)Médée: Quel prix de mon amour
Charpentier, Marc-Antoine (1643-1704)Médée: Noires filles du Styx
Rebel, François (1701-1775)Le Ballet de la Paix (Air pour les esprits malfaisants)
Performers
Véronique GensSoprano
Louis-Noël Bestion de CamboulasDirector, Harpsichord, Organ
Ensemble Les Surprises

Whether afflicted mothers, unhappy lovers, abandoned or raging women – on the opera stage we are constantly meeting strong female figures who defy their fate, sometimes heroic, sometimes silent and self-denying, but always self-assured and ready to suffer. The prominent French soprano Véronique Gens devotes this programme to these complex and stout-hearted operatic heroines in a very special way: together with the young ensemble Les Surprises and its artistic director Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, she has compiled a pasticcio opera out of works by leading French composers which sounds out the complex range of emotions between passion, bitter complaint, jealousy and desire for revenge. The programme was released on CD in 2021 and demands the ingenious and charismatic role interpretations that have propelled Veronique Gens and her vocal art to the top of the contemporary Baroque scene.

At the hub of this highly emotional pasticcio we meet not only the grand protagonists of Jean-Batiste Lully but also Marc Antoine Charpentier‘s Médée and figures from lesser-known works – some never previous published – by such composers as Henry Desmarest, André Cardinal Destouches, Pascal Collasse, François Rebel and François Francœur.

Shuttle included: Departure at 02.15 p.m. Wölfelstr. 4 at the Iwalewahaus (approx. 50 metres from the Opera House)

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