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2016 BAM Winter/Spring #LesFetesVenitiennes

Brooklyn of Music

Alan H. Fishman, Chairman of the Board

William I. Campbell, Vice Chairman of the Board

Adam E. Max, Vice Chairman of the Board Les Fêtes Katy Clark, President

Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer Vénitiennes

BAM Howard Gilman House Apr 14 & 16 at 7:30pm; Apr 17 at 2pm

Running time: approx. three hours including intermission

By André Campra Les Arts Florissants Opéra Comique

Conducted by William Christie Directed by Robert Carsen

Scenic design by Radu Boruzescu Choregraphy by Ed Wubbe Costume design by Petra Reinhardt Lighting design by Robert Carsen and Peter van Praet English titles by Christopher Bergen

Season Sponsor:

In memory of Robert W. Wilson, with gratitude for his visionary and generous support of BAM.

Major support provided by the Selz Foundation.

Leadership support for opera at BAM provided by Aashish & Dinyar Devitre and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Additional support provided by Anne H. ; Norman S. Benzaquen; Michael E. & Mary Gellert; The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation; Robert L. Turner; and Sam & Ellen Sporn.

Endowment funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fund for Opera and Music-Theater.

Support for the Signature Artist Series provided by the Howard Gilman Foundation.

Major support for opera at BAM provided by The Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust. Les Fêtes Vénitiennes

CAST Magali Léger, La Raison, Lucile, Lucie

Elodie Fonnard, Soprano Iphise, La Fortune

Rachel Redmond, Soprano Irène, Léontine, Flore

Emilie Renard, Mezzo Soprano La Folie, Isabelle Reinoud Van Mechelen, Thémir, Un Masque, Zéphyr

Cyril Auvity, High tenor Maître de Danse, Suivant de la Fortune, Adolphe

Sean Clayton, Tenor Démocrite

Marcel Beekman, Tenor Maître de Musique, Maître de Chant

Jonathan McGovern, Alamir, Damir, Borée

François Lis, Bass Le Carnaval, Léandre, Rodolphe

Geoffroy Buffière, Bass Héraclite

WILLIAM CHRISTIE CYRIL AUVITY MARCEL BEEKMAN GEOFFROY BUFFIÈRE

SEAN CLAYTON ELODIE FONNARD MAGALI LÉGER FRANÇOIS LIS

JONATHAN MCGOVERN RACHEL REDMOND EMILIE RENARD REINOUD VAN MECHELEN

ROBERT CARSEN RADU BORUZESCU ED WUBBE PETRA REINHARDT PETER VAN PRAET Les Fêtes Vénitiennes—Synopsis

Les Fêtes Vénitiennes, an opéra- by André Irène. From her window, she responds with Campra, with a prologue and three entrées—Le an Italian tune in which she calls him a fickle Bal, Les Sérénades, and L’Opéra—premiered at butterfly and spurns him. But Léandre,seeing a the Académie Royale de Musique in 1710. woman approach in the dark, believes that Irène came down to join him. He assures her that PROLOGUE neither Lucile nor Isabelle have ever charmed The Triumph of Folly over Reason during him. But it turns out that he actually spoke to . Carnaval appears and invites the crowd the two girls who eventually reject him forever. to join him for the festivities. Folie joins him He comes to terms with it and rejoins a troupe with her retinue of Pleasures and supports his of gamblers who celebrate the power of Fortune: ambition to amuse and entertain. But a killjoy she exhibits the influence of her fickleness on arrives: Reason. Assisted by wise Democrite and gambling and love alike. Heraclite, she attempts to disenchant the crowd and warns everybody against the aberrations of THE OPERA Carnaval. In vain: she must leave Venice, letting In a theater where an opera is to be performed, Folie and Carnaval lead the festivities. a new actor enters—Borée, who hopes to approach Léontine, a singer he adores. Adolphe, THE BALL a singer himself and Damire’s friend, tries to Prince Alamir courts Iphise without revealing his divert the knight from his venture, to no avail. identity. To test her sincerity, he swaps clothes Damire is determined to abduct the woman with his servant Thémir. A music master and a performing the part of Flore that evening before dancing master, both French, have been asked to she is abducted by his rival Rodolphe, attending organize the sumptuous ball given by the prince the performance. It turns out that Léontine is in the evening. Each master endeavors to show really in love with Damire. Tired of pretending, he is the best and that his art prevails. Thémir, she wishes to be sincere despite the admonitions disguised as a prince, is to follow his efforts of her colleague Lucie who appreciates the while Alamir, dressed as a servant, puts Iphise duplicity of their situation. The singing master to the test by trying to convince her to accept the arrives to make Léontine rehearse her part. But love of “Prince” Thémir. Iphise is confused and he also loves her and shows his jealousy of her despair brings about the revelation: Alamir, Rodolphe, who is awaiting Léontine backstage. delighted to be loved for himself and not for his rank, proves to be the true patron of the festivity. The performance begins with Rodolphe in Charmed by the stratagem, Iphise reaffirms her attendance. It is a pastoral featuring shepherds love for Alamir. Both the prince and his new and shepherdesses with Zéphire and Flore, the princess can partake in the ball light-heartedly. latter played by Léontine. The entertainment is interrupted by the untimely arrival of the god of —INTERMISSION— wind Borée, who abducts Flore with the help of the north winds. While Zéphire mourns over SERENADES AND GAMBLERS Flore’s disappearance, Lucie declares that the One evening two anxious and jealous girls performance cannot go on since Léontine has meet in a Venetian square: Isabelle and Lucile truly been abducted, not by Borée but by he who have come to catch their unfaithful lover, each was portraying him: Damire! Rodolphe, furious one believing that her lover deceives her with of having been abused, can only leave the the other. It is indeed one and the same man, theater and run to the port as the two lovers are Léandre, but the two rivals find out that a about to leave Venice. third girl is involved. They hesitate to unite for revenge, each one thinking that the other wants EPILOGUE to keep Léandre. The gallant is coming with a The carnival ends and life is back to normal troupe of musicians and plays a under again… or so it seems! the balcony of the one he hopes to conquer, Les Fêtes Vénitiennes

DANCERS Alexandre Jolicoeur Reid Cuming Mara Hulspas Jean Gabriel Maury Bonnie Doets Maya Roest Kiyan Khoshoie Bryndis Brynjolfsdottir Debora Soto () Mischa van Leeuwen Leslie Humbert

CHORUS HIGH TENORS BASSES Solange Añorga Camillo Angarita Edouard Hazebrouck Geoffroy Buffière Maud Gnidzaz Sean Clayton Thibaut Lenaerts Anicet Castel Eugénie Lefèbvre Bruno Renhold Nicolas Maire Laurent Collobert Virginie Thomas Marcio Soares Jean-Yves Ravoux Simon Dubois Violaine Lucas Holanda Michael-Loughlin Christophe Gautier Brigitte Pelote Jonathan Spicher Smith Geoffroy Heurard Juliette Perret Julien Neyer Isabelle Sauvageot

ORCHESTRA PERCUSSION ( solo) Elena Andreyev Marie-Ange Petit Myriam Gevers Magali Boyer Liv Heym Ulrike Brütt MUSETTE Christophe Robert* Brigitte Crépin Maillard François Lazarevitch Catherine Girard Damien Launay Sophie Gevers-Demoures Cécile Verolles BASSO CONTINUO Michèle Sauvé Alix Verzier VIOLONCELLO Emmanuel Resche* David Simpson I Serge Saitta* CONTRABASS Galina Zinchenko Charles Zebley* Jonathan Cable Simon Heyerick I THEORBO, LUTE VIOLAS II Pier Luigi Fabretti Thomas Dunford* Kayo Saito Yanina Yabubsohn Brian Feehan Deirdre Dowling OBOES II VIOLAS III Machiko Ueno Béatrice Martin Jean-Luc Thonnerieux Vincent Blanchard Samantha Montgomery *Musicians on stage Claude Wassmer Evolène Kiener

Co-produced with the support of the SELZ Foundation, Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse, Théâtre de Caen, and Centre de Musique de Versailles

Les Arts Florissants receives financial support from the Ministry of Culture and Communication. Since January 2015, the ensemble has been artist in residence at the Philharmonie de .

The American Friends of Les Arts Florissants support all its activities.

Thanks to the support of The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation, the Baroque L1VE Xperience program of Les Arts Florissants allows a group of teenagers to discover the concert under the best conditions and to continue the experience on the Internet. Who’s Who

WILLIAM CHRISTIE (conductor), a at the Festival d’Aix en Provence, including harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist, and Orlando (BAM, 1996 Spring), The Magic , teacher, is the inspiration behind one of the and . Carsen’s numerous works for most exciting musical adventures of the last drama theater include Brecht’s Mother Courage 30 years. Born in Buffalo, Christie studied at and Her Children for Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Harvard and Yale Universities and has lived Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan for Bristol in since 1971. He founded Les Arts Old Vic Theatre, and Stoppard’s Rosencrantz Florissants in 1979 and received major public and Guildenstern Are Dead in New York. For recognition in 1987 with the production of Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, Carsen has directed at the Opéra Comique in Paris (the production’s Ute Lemper’s show Nomade, Bernstein’s US debut was presented at BAM in 1989; its Candide, and Loewe’s musical My Fair Lady. much-anticipated revival was presented at BAM He staged Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Beautiful in September 2011). His pioneering work has Game (Cambridge Theatre, London) and Sunset led to a renewed appreciation of 17th- and 18th- Boulevard (Great Britain tour). century French repertoire. He is equally adept at other European repertoire and has given many RADU BORUZESCU (scenic design) worked acclaimed performances of works by Monteverdi, with his wife Miruna as a scenographer and Rossi, Scarlatti, Purcell, Handel, Haydn, and costume designer since the start of his career. Mozart. His extensive discography (more than They worked together on the production of 100 recordings, many of which have won Les Fêtes Vénitiennes until Miruna’s death awards in France and abroad) with Harmonia in April 2014. They both graduated from the Mundi and Warner Classics/Erato is proof of this Academy of Visual Arts in Bucharest and were versatility. Christie has a rich operatic career and involved in numerous productions: La Princesse has collaborated with renowned directors such Turandot, L’Atlantide (Théâtre National de as Jean-Marie Villégier, Robert Carsen, Alfredo Chaillot), La Mouette, Le Canard sauvage, Ce , Jorge Lavelli, Graham Vick, Adrian Noble, soir on improvise (Théâtre de la Ville de Paris), Andrei Serban, and . In great demand Arrabal (Théâtre National de la Colline), Così as a guest conductor, he has appeared with the fan tutte, (), Don Berlin Philharmonic, of the Age of Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte, (Aix-en- Enlightenment, of New York, Provence Festival), Fidelio (Nederlandse Opera Zurich Opernhaus, and Opéra National de . and Maggio Fiorentino), Adelson e Salvini, La Christie is Commandeur de l’Ordre de la Légion Damnation de , (Bonn Opera), Il d’Honneur as well as an Officier de l’Ordre Trovatore (), and a number des Arts et des Lettres. He was elected to the of collaborations with R. Carsen. They have Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2008 and received collaborated with many stage directors such as the 2005 Georges Pompidou Prize as well as the Arrabal, Bourseiller, Ciulei, Nureyev, Pintilie, Liliane Bettencourt Choral Singing Prize awarded and Regy. Radu and Miruna Boruzescu also by the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 2004. participated in several film projects, especially Les Noces de Pierre, selected at the Cannes ROBERT CARSEN (director; ligthing design), Festival, Felix et Otilia at the Venice Festival, and a Canadian native, studied at The Old Vic Un été inoubliable. Theatre school in Bristol, England, and has directed productions at the world’s major opera ED WUBBE and SCAPINO BALLET houses, including the Metropolitan Opera (choreographer; dancers) is acclaimed for (Eugene Onegin, Mephistopheles, ), La dance that is a virtuoso combination of Scala (Dialogue of the Carmelites), and Paris classical technique and the bold freedom of National Opera ( Lescaut, , contemporary dance. Wubbe’s full-length dance , Les Boréades—BAM, 2003 Spring). and music production, Pearl (2012), inspired He won the distinguished Carl Ebert Award for by the baroque period and live accompanied his work at the Glyndebourne Festival Opera by Combattimento Consort , was and was appointed a French Chevalier des Arts highly successful. Rameau, his first production et des Lettres in 1996. In addition, Carsen as resident choreographer in 1990, broke with has produced Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz conventional ballet aesthetic. After Wubbe and Guildenstern Are Dead in New York, and became artistic director in 1992, the company directed a number of celebrated productions began to build a new repertoire. In 1992 Who’s Who

Wubbe’s Kathleen made a splash, and his full- A. Serban (, ). In 2000 she length Perfect Skin was presented in 1993. He launched a renowned couture label. In 2005 she often draws inspiration from icons of Western directed, choreographed and was light designer culture—Romeo&Julia (1995), (1997), for the Luxicantica event at the Altaroma Fashion The Schliemann Pieces (1998), Tsjaikovski Week in Rome. Her creations were displayed (2002), Orfeo Shows/Operation Orfeo (2003), at the O’dino exhibition at the 2009 Spoleto Paramount (2005), Songs for Drella (2011, Festival and were photographed by Vogel and in collaboration with Marco Goecke), and A. Lo Priore and exhibited at the Tribeca Film Pearl (2012)–and sets abstract dance within Festival. Among her projects is CO2 (La Scala in an associative narrative or theme. In much of Milan). Wubbe’s work, tension is produced by working with opposites, resulting in multiple layers. PETER VAN PRAET (lighting design), of Music, dance, décor, and drama combine to , created the lighting design for Iphigénie form a new whole. Wubbe collaborates with en Tauride (2007) and Falstaff (2012) for those in other artistic disciplines: designers, in collaboration with Robert composers, architects, DJs, and VJs. An example Carsen, who also directed the productions. is MANYFACTS (2001), in collaboration with He created the lighting design for La Fura dels MVRDV (architects) and Wieland & Gouwens Baus’ Oedipe, performed by the Royal Opera (computer graphic designers), which offered in 2016 and originally created for , a vision of the city of the future. MANYFACTS . Van Praet began his career as the was created for Rotterdam 2001, European manager of the technical lighting department Cultural Capital. In Wubbe’s new dance of Vlaamse Opera. He regularly collaborates concept—the annual performance of TWOOLS, a with Carsen; their credits include Jenufa, Kát’a 75-minute continuous dance spectacle—various Kabanová, The Cunning Little Vixen, The choreographers create short dances performed Makropulos Affair, and Battistelli’s Richard III with rapid décor changes, linked together by (Vlaamse Opera); Fénelon’s JJR, Citoyen de Wubbe. Since 2004, Wubbe has been artistic Genève (); and Capriccio (Paris director of the Internationaler Wettbewerb für Opéra); Fidelio (Amsterdam and Florence); Tosca Choreographen Hannover. In 2006 he began (Liceu, Barcelona); (Salzburg the Scapino Production Prize; winners make a Festival); (, Venice); Elektra 10-minute piece at Scapino for the TWOOLS (Tokyo); Iphigénie en Tauride (Lyric Opera of series. He has worked on film projects such as Chicago, San Francisco and Canadian Opera); Embracing Time (2005), Lost (2001), Enclosed The Turn of the Screw (Theater an der Wien); (2000), and Single Manoeuvres (1999). Wubbe (Glyndebourne Festival); and Candide has created more than 40 works for Scapino (Théâtre du Châtelet, La Scala, Milan, and Ballet, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this ). Van Praet also works year with the production TING!. It is the oldest regularly with La Fura dels Baus; credits include and one of the best-known dance companies (Valencia) and Le in the Netherlands and Wubbe and company Grand Macabre (Liceu, La Monnaie, Brussels, members have received a number of awards and Rome Opera, and ENO). For director merits. his lighting designs include Orlando furioso (Paris and Nice) and (Dutch National PETRA REINHARDT (costume design) has Opera). Further opera credits include Der Ring designed the costumes for numerous directors des Nibelungen for Teatro Colón, Buenos Aires; such as R. Carsen (Die Zauberflöte, Baden The Turn of the Screw in Lyon; and Don Giovanni Baden, Opéra Bastille), J. Solfaghari (Eine in Perm, all directed by Valentina Carrasco. Nacht in Venedig, Dresden), C.S. Zheng (Nixon in China, Châtelet; Farewell My Concubine, MAGALI LÉGER (soprano; La Raison, Lucile, Beijing), J. Schaaf (Marie Victoire, Berlin; La Lucie) studied vocals with Christiane Eda-Pierre Tosca, Dresden, Die Fledermaus, Amsterdam), and Christiane Patard at the Conservatoire J. Cura (Un Ballo in Maschera, Cologne; National Supérieur de Musique in Paris, where La commedia è finita, Rijeka), W. Friedkin she was awarded a Premier Prix degree in 1999. (Salome, Das Gehege, Munich), K.M. Brandauer In 2003, she was nominated in the “Revelation” (Lohengrin, Cologne; Die Dreigroschenoper, category at the Victoires de la Musique. She Berlin; Mario und der Zauberer, ), and has been a regular on major concert and opera Les Fêtes Vénitiennes. Photo by Vincent Pontet Who’s Who

stages (Lyon, Nantes, Metz, and , She graduated from Paris Conservatoire (Baroque Opéra Comique, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Music; and Kenneth Weiss’ Châtelet, Cité de la Musique, Lincoln Center, classes). Fonnard debuted with Le Concert Bologna’s Teatro Comunale, Vienna, Aix-en- d’Astrée (Emmanuelle Haim) for Opera of in Provence and Beaune Festivals, etc.), with Purcell’s Fairy Queen. She also performed with baroque, contemporary, classical, and romantic Le Poème Harmonique (Vincent Dumestre), the repertoires. She has worked with names such Ensemble Vocal Aedes (Matthew Romano), Les as , Evelino Pido, William Arts Florissants (William Christie), notably in Christie, Macha Makeïeff, Rodrigo Ruiz, and Atys (Flora), Dido and Aeneas (Belinda), Acis Jérôme Deschamps, and has sung in , and Galatea (Galatea), Acteon (), and Die Lustige Witwe, Le Roi Malgré Lui, L’Etoile, Daphnis and Ægle (Ægle). She has performed Thaïs, Werther, , L’Elisir d’Amore, at the Royal Opera of Versailles, Festival d’Aix- Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Porgy and Bess, Die en Provence and in Europe, China (Forbidden Jakobsleiter (Schönberg), Elephant Man (Laurent City Concert Hall, Beijing), Russia (Bolshoi), Petitgirard), Médée (Michèle Reverdy, premiere), the US (Lincoln Center, BAM, New York City), Belle Hélène, and in the Underworld, Mexico (Palacio de Bellas Artes), and in South as well as Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, America (Brazil, Colombia, Chile). In concert Idomeneo, and Die Entführung aus dem Serail. repertoire, she sings Mozart’s , Haydn’s She released two records with her baroque Nelson , Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio, ensemble Rosasolis in 2009 and 2010—one of Beethoven’s Mass in C minor and Poulenc’s Handel motets and sonatas, the other Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Fonnard’s recording of Prévert & . Léger regularly appears in orchestral Kosma songs is available on Anima Records. In concerts (including a European Handel tour with 2015, Fonnard was the special guest of Théâtre Le Concert d’Astrée), and with pianists such de Caen to celebrate European Opera Days. as Rémy Cardinale and Marcela Roggieri, in Other projects include concerts with Les Folies repertoires spanning from Chopin to Piazzola. Françoises (cond. P.C. Akenine), and Eurydice in She has worked for many years with the Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice at Opéra de Dijon. composer and pianist M. Levinas, with whom she has recorded Fauré’s melodies, including RACHEL REDMOND (soprano; Irène, Léontine, La Bonne Chanson, and whose opera premiere, Flore) was born in Glasgow and discovered her Metamorphosis, based on Kafka’s short story, love of singing with the Junior Chorus of the she performed in 2011 at the Lille Opera. Royal Scottish National Orchestra; she studied Recently, she sang Poulenc’s Gloria with the at the Music School of Douglas Academy and Orchestre National des Pays de la Loire in Nantes received her BA Hons from the Royal Scottish and Angers, and Le Roi David at the Théâtre du Academy of Music and Drama, where she Capitole in Toulouse. In addition to Les Fêtes was awarded the Florence Veitch Ibler prize Vénitiennes, this season she also appears in for oratorio performance. She earned an MA multiple concerts, including Pergolesi’s Stabat with Merit at the Guildhall School of Music Mater with the Avignon Provence Orchestra, and and Drama. As a member of Jardin des Voix, with the ensembles Rosasolis and Contraste. the academy for young singers of Les Arts Florissants, Redmond performed concerts under ÉLODIE FONNARD (soprano; Iphise, La the direction of William Christie and Fortune) emerged in the public eye in William in France, Spain, and New York. At Christie’s Christie’s Jardin des Voix and is one of the invitation she débuted at Opéra Comique, most prominent sopranos on the new baroque Paris, performing Iris in Atys. Also with Les Arts scene. She will have performed in Les Fêtes Florissants, she sang the Angel in a European Vénitiennes at Opéra Comique, Théâtre de tour of Jephtha, and Captif in David et Jonathas Caen, and Capitole of Toulouse, in addition to at the Aix-en-Provence International Festival BAM. Récent engagements include Beethoven’s and the Edinburgh Festival. She performed in Leonore Prohaska at National Opera Montpellier La Tragedie Lyrique, a concert spanning French with Laurence Equilbey and revivals of Une baroque opera with Paul Agnew and Les Arts Journée avec Le Roi Soleil with William Christie/ Florissants, and Damon in Acis and Galatea, Les Arts Florissants at the Paris Philharmonie First Witch in Dido and Aeneas, and programs and BOZAR Brussels. Trained as a pianist, she of Purcell and Boismortier at Christie’s inaugural studied singing with Luc Coadou and Alain Buet. Festival at Thiré. Redmond returned to the Who’s Who

Opéra Comique for Les Fêtes Vénitiennes with Innsbruck Festival to sing Mozart’s Coronation Les Arts Florissants, followed by her début at Mass, Giuletta in Zingarelli’s Giuletta e Romeo the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris in La belle in the Schwetzingen Festival, and Zweite Dame Hélène. Other recent engagements include in Zauberflöte with Opera Dijon in Dijon, Paris, Isbé (Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles, Limoges, and Caen. Hungary), the revival of Les Fêtes Vénitiennes (Les Arts Florissants, Théâtre du Capitole, REINOUD VAN MECHELEN (tenor; Thémir, Toulouse), concerts with Collegio Ghislieri at Un Masque, Zéphyr) was born in 1987 in Malta Festival and at BOZAR, Brussels; with Leuven and studied singing at the Conservatoire Les Cris de Paris in Israel in Egypt (Beaune, Royal in Brussels. In 2007 he took part in the Lessay, La Chaise-Dieu Festivals), Les Grands Académie Baroque Européenne in Ambronay, Motets de Rameau et Mondonville (Les Arts performing Plutus in Le Carnaval et la Folie by Florissants, tour), Beatus Vir (Collegio Ghislieri, Destouches under the baton of Hervé Niquet. In La Chaise-Dieu and Ambronay Festivals), 2011 he was a member of Le Jardin des Voix of Actéon and Caecilia, Virgin and Martyr, and a William Christie and Paul Agnew, participating recording of Charpentier Oratorio, all with Les in numerous concerts; he performed the role Arts Florissants. She sang The Fairy Queen of Zéphir in Atys on concert tour with Les Arts and Pygmalion (European Union Baroque Florissants, with which he has performed, Orchestra), Esther (Wigmore Hall), St. Matthew among others, at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, Passion (Dunedin Consort, Dunblane Cathedral), Edinburgh Festival, and Château de Versailles. Chichester Psalms (Royal Albert Hall, BBC He has collaborated with ensembles such as Scottish Symphony Orchestra), Saul (Aldeburgh), Le Concert Spirituel, , Le Jenkins’ Gloria, and Beethoven Mass in C (Se, Poème Harmonique, Il Gardellino, L’Arpeggiata, Lisbon), among others. Redmond’s plans include Ausonia, Ludus Modalis, B’Rock, Ricercar performances of St. John Passion (Ensemble Consort, Scherzi Musicali, Insula Orchestra, Aedes) and Bach Cantatas, French Motets, all European Union Baroque Orchestra, and with Les Arts Florissants, St. John Passion with Royal Philharmonic in Liverpool. On the opera Ensemble Aedes, The Fairy Queen (Barcelona stage he recently performed with Jordi Savall), a program based on La at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Les Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers with Ensemble Fêtes Vénitiennes at the Opéra Comique, and Correspondences, and performances of works at Opéra National de . by Handel, Jomelli, Pergolesi, and Vivaldi with Collegio Ghislieri. CYRIL AUVITY (countertenor; Maître de Danse, Suivant de la Fortune, Adolphe) received a EMILIE RENARD (mezzo-soprano; La Folie, degree in physics at Lille University, completed Isabelle) studied at Royal Scottish Academy his musical studies at the conservatory in Lille in of Music and Drama and 1999, and won the international singing contest International Opera School of the Royal College in Clermont Ferrand that year. Chosen by William of Music. Renard was a member of Le Jardin Christie, he started his career at a young age, des Voix 2013, working with William Christie, performing in Monteverdi’s Ritorno Paul Agnew, and Les Arts Florissants. Busy on di Ulisse in Patria in Aix en Provence Festival both concert and operatic platforms, highlights and throughout Europe and the US. He received include Upon Silence by George Benjamin numerous invitations to international festivals (Messiaen Festival, France), Dido (Dido and and opera houses: Persée with Christophe Aeneas with Christie), Junon in Platée with Les Rousset; Gli Strali d’Amore with Gabriel Garrido; Arts Florissants (Theater an der Wien, Opéra The Fairy Queen with Rousset (Spain tour); Comique and New York), her debut as Zweite Persée and Médée in ; Dido and Aeneas Dame in Die Zauberflöte (Nantes-Angers Opera), (Nancy and Aldeburgh Festival); Amore in L’incoronazione di Poppea (with and the title role in Actéon with Emmanuelle Laurence Cummings, Opera North), Ersinda Haïm. His long collaboration with Christie in Porpora’s Il Germanico in Germania (with continued with new productions such as Les Alessandro de Marchi, Innsbruck Festival), and Arts Florissants and David & Jonathas (title Valetto in L’incoronazione di Poppea (Theater an role). He debuted the title role in Pygmalion in a der Wien). Future engagements include the title co-production between Nancy Opera House and role in for the Musikfestspiele Potsdam, Théâtre du Châtelet under the baton of Hervé Who’s Who

Niquet and a new production of Destouches’ MARCEL BEEKMAN (tenor; Maître de Callirhoé in Montpellier. He took part in a big tour Musique), a Dutch tenor, has appeared with the with Le Medecin malgré lui and debuted in Don Berliner Philharmoniker, Royal Concertgebouw Giovanni (Don Ottavio) with Emmanuel Krivine; Orchestra, Orchestra of the 18th Century, Les he performed the same role in a stage production Arts Florissants, Musica Antiqua Köln, De in Montpellier where the following year he sang Nederlandse Bachvereniging, Staatskapelle Tamino in The Magic Flute. At Lille Opera he sang Dresden, and the ASKO|Schönberg under Basilio in Le Nozze di Figaro with Emanuelle Haïm conductors such as Sir , William and Le Concert d’Astrée. Christie, , , and Peter Dijkstra. Recent opera appearances SEAN CLAYTON (tenor; Démocrite) trained at include L’Incoronazione di Poppea and Il ritorno Birmingham Conservatoire with Julian Pike and d’Ulisse in patria (Theater an der Wien), Die continued his studies at the Royal College of Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Dutch National Music in London with Neil Mackie. In 2009, he Opera), and L’écume des jours (Oper Stuttgart). was invited to join Le Jardin de Voix, the young In 2014, he debuted in the title role of Rameau’s artists program of Les Arts Florissants directed Platée (Theater an der Wien and Lincoln Center), by William Christie. He has sung several roles followed by Les Fêtes Vénitiennes with Les Arts with them and for numerous choral projects, Florissants (Opéra Comique, Paris), Canticum including music of Scarlatti and Charpentier. Sacrum (SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Since 2011, Clayton has been a part of Les und Freiburg), and Benvenuto Cellini (Dutch Arts Florissants’ Monteverdi Madrigal project National Opera). In 2015/16, he returns to directed by Paul Agnew, performing the eight Theater an der Wien in L’Incoronazione di books all over Europe. Recent and current opera Poppea with Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Les engagements include Messenger in Theodora Arts Florissants in Toulouse with Les Fêtes (Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris), Carlos Vénitiennes, Mozart’s Requiem (Noord and Tacmas in (Lutosławski Nederlands Orkest, Israel Camerata), and Concert Studio Warsaw, Poland), Démocrite in premieres the role of Pope Innozenzo XI in Les Fêtes Vénitiennes (Opéra Comique, Paris), Andriessen’s new opera Theatre of the World at Berger in La Naissance d’Osiris (Théâtre de . Beekman has performed Caen), Berger in Actéon, Summer in The Fairy new works by composers Elmer Schönberger, Queen (Glydebourne Opera), Secrecy in The Roderik de Man, Maarten Altena, and António Fairy Queen (Festival Aix-en-Provence), Indian Chagas Rosa. He sang Ricardo in the world Boy in Indian Queen (Paris), Blindman in Petite première of Dutch composer Martijn Padding’s Messe Solonnelle (Nico and the Navigators, opera Laika (Dutch National Opera) and Mucius Berlin), and roles in Susannah, Orfeo, Dido and in the Dutch premiere of Glanert’s Caligula for Aeneas (); The Lighthouse the NTR Zaterdagmatinee at the Concertgebouw (Montepulciano Festival); (Der Amsterdam. At the Holland Festival he appeared Lautten Compagney); L’occasione fa il ladro in the premiere of Calliope Tsoupaki’s St. Luke (Wexford Festival Opera); Semele (British Youth Passion with Nieuw Ensemble and conductor Opera); Orfeo (English Bach Festival Trust); The Ed Spanjaard. Festivals include Salzburg Easter Merry Wives of Windsor (Opera South), and La Festival, Utrecht Ancient Music Festival, Festival pietra del paragone and Falstaff (Stanley Hall de La Chaise-Dieu, and Saito Kinen Festival Opera). Clayton has performed all over the world Japan. His extensive discography includes Die including at Opera Garnier, Opera Comique, Entführung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro, and Théâtre des Champs Elysées in Paris, L’Ipermestra, Les Indes Galantes, the title role Festival of Aix-en-Provence, Opera National de of Willem Breuker’s Jona, and in Salome, Il Bordeaux, Bolshoi Theatre in and the Prigioniero, Isidora Žebeljan’s chamber opera Marinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, BAM and Maratonci, and in Netherlands first opera, Lincoln Center in New York, Radialsystem V Granida (P.C. Hooft). in Berlin, Royal Albert Hall for the BBC Proms and the Barbican in London, Auditorio Nacional JONATHAN McGOVERN (baritone; Alamir, de Música in Madrid, Palau de la Música in Damir, Borée), a graduate of King’s College Barcelona, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, the London and the Royal Academy of Music, National Conert Hall in Dublin, and the Wexford performs in Les Fêtes Vénitiennes with Les Festival Opera. Arts Florissants/William Christie in Toulouse, Who’s Who

and in a role and company debut as Pelléas Paragone (Châtelet and Teatro Reggio, Parma); (Pelléas et Mélisande) in a new production for Narbal in Les Troyens in Strasbourg; and the English Touring Opera. He soon makes debuts title role in Le Nozze di Figaro at the Opéra de with Staatsoper Hamburg and Garsington Lyon. Recent engagements include Alcina, La Opera. Recent engagements have included a Traviata, and Platée at Opéra National de Paris. debut as Junior in Bernstein’s A Quiet Place In 2009 he debuted as Don Giovanni and sang (/, Konzerthaus Figaro at Opera Ireland in Dublin. Last season he Berlin, Konzerthaus Dortmund, and Dresdner sang in La Cenerentola (La Monnaie, Brussels), Musikfestspiele). He sang Figaro in Il barbiere , and Carmen at Théâtre du di Siviglia (Verbier Festival), and the title roles Capitole, Toulouse. Other engagements: Jeanne in Il ritorno d’Ulisse under and au Bûcher (Orchestre National de Lyon); Les Telemann’s Orpheus under Ian Page (London Paladins (Basel); Die Zauberflöte (Teatro Real), Handel Festival). Concert highlights have Madrid; La Bohème (Opera Zuid, Belgium); included Beethoven’s Choral Fantasy (Verbier and l’Incoronazione di Poppea and La Forza Festival under Charles Dutoit), Carmina Burana del Destino (Opéra de Rouen); among others. (Teatro dell’Opera di Roma), the NDR Podium He graduated in musicology from the Sorbonne der Jungen under Andrew Litton, and Mahler’s and finished his studies at Conservatoire Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Tampere National Supérieur de Musique in Paris. Lis was Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniel Cohen). nominated for the Revelation Artiste Lyrique At English National Opera McGovern was in of the Year in 2004. He recently sang Teucer three world premieres: Anderson’s Thebans in Dardanus (Opéra de Lille) and in under Edward Gardner, Muhly’s Two Boys under Platée (Opéra National du Rhin, Strasbourg), Rumon Gamba, and van der Aa’s The Sunken Commendatore in Don Giovanni (Tourcoing Garden under André de Ridder. In recital, he and Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris), and has performed with pianists Malcolm Martineau, Escamillo in Carmen (Opera Festival in Skopje Simon Lepper, James Baillieu, Timothy End, Macedonia). Lis in 2010 debuted as Zuniga and James Cheung. Recently he appeared at (Carmen) in Caracas, Los Angeles, and at Teatro Oxford Lieder Festival, London English Song alla Scala; appeared at Opéra National de Paris Festival, and the Lichfield Festival. This season, in Ariadne auf Naxos; and sang his first Marcel he returns to Wigmore Hall, debuts at Musée in (La Monnaie, Brussels). In d’Orsay, and performs Aeneas (Dido and recent seasons he appeared in a world premiere Aeneas) under at the Wigmore of Philippe Fénelon in JJR Citoyen de Genève Hall, Alidoro in Orontea with La Nuova Musica (Grand Théâtre, Geneva) and at Opéra de Paris under David Bates, and Pilate in Rossi’s Per in Hippolyte et Aricie, Carmen, L’Enfant et les la settimana santa at the Spitalfields Music Sortilèges, and La Cenerentola, and debuted Festival under C. Curnyn. McGovern has received at Glyndebourne Festival in Hippolyte et Aricie. prestigious awards: the 2010 Gold Medal and More recently he was at with First Prize at the Royal Over-Seas League Music , Platée, , and more. He Competition, the 2011 Jean Meikle Duo Prize sang at Festival de Radio France in Montpellier at Wigmore Hall/Kohn Foundation International in Caterina Cornaro by Donizetti, Les Fêtes Song Competition, and Second Prize at the 2011 Vénitiennes with Les Arts Florissants/Christie, Kathleen Ferrier Awards. Les Indes Galantes in Munich, and in Toronto. FRANÇOIS LIS (bass; Le Carnaval, Léandre, Rodolphe), a French bass, performed in recent GEOFFROY BUFFIÈRE (bass; Héraclite), seasons as Don Fernando in Fidelio (Orchestre following musical studies at Maîtrise de Notre- Philharmonique de Radio France) and Zuniga in Dame de Paris and at CRR Paris (studying with Carmen at Châtelet Paris; the world premiere of Howard Crook and Kenneth Weiss), joined La Messe de Chimay at Festival de Chartres; Die the CNIPAL . He can be heard in Zauberflöte for l’Opéra de Nancy and Ensemble concert and on CDs in repertoires from early Matheus; Pope Clement VII in Benvenuto Cellini and Renaissance polyphonies (with Clément for L’Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg; Frère Janequin, D. Visse, Huelgas, and P. van Nevel Laurent in Romeo et Juliette (Polish National ensembles) to contemporary compositions (with Opera); his debut at the Opéra National de Paris the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Susanna as Jupiter in Platée; Asdrubalde in La Pietra del Mälkki). He has worked with specialists of Who’s Who

the Baroque repertoire such as Hervé Niquet, Baroque repertoire that had long been neglected. William Christie, Emmanuelle Haïm, Rinaldo Today that repertoire of the 17th and 18th Alessandrini, Masaki Suzuki, and Vincent centuries is widely performed and admired. Dumestre. He also appears in recitals, especially Since 2007, William Christie has regularly with Jeff Cohen. He regularly sings on French passed the conductor’s baton over to British stages (Rouen, Caen, Avignon, Opéra Royal de tenor Paul Agnew. Les Arts Florissants has Versailles, Aix-en-Provence Festival) and abroad launched several education programs for young (BAM, Aldeburgh Britten Festival, Edinburgh musicians; the Academy of Le Jardin des Voix, and Utrecht Festivals). As a member of the the Arts Flo Juniors program, and the partnership first Opéra Comique Académie, he has often with New York’s Juilliard School of Music. The sung at Salle Favart: David et Jonathas (under ensemble also organizes numerous events W. Christie) and Mârouf savetier du Caire aimed at building new audiences, designed for (conducted by Alain Altinoglu). He recently both amateur musicians and non-musicians, sang with Anne-Sofie von Otter in Die sieben adults as much as children. The ensemble has Todsünden at Sale Pleyel, and in Schumann’s produced an impressive discography: nearly 100 Manfred (con. Emmanuel Krivine, dir. Georges recordings (CD and DVD) and its own collection Lavaudan, Opéra Comique), in La Grande in collaboration with Harmonia Mundi. In 2012, Duchesse de Gerolstein (con. Christophe the ensemble created the annual festival Dans Grapperon, dir. Philippe Béziat, Théâtre de les Jardins de William Christie, in partnership l’Athénée), (con. with the Conseil départemental de la Vendée. Christophe Coin, dir. Denis Podalydès), L’Orfeo Les Arts Florissants receives financial support (con. Sébastien d’Hérin, dir. Caroline Mutel, from the Ministry of Culture and Communication. Opéra de Massy), and La Troupe d’Orphée à La The ensemble has been artist in residence at Haye (van Veggel, Schwartzman). In addition, the Philharmonie de Paris since 2015. The he has sung in concerts with ensembles such American Friends of Les Arts Florissants support as Correspondances, Le Concert Spirituel, La all its activities. Rêveuse, Le Poème Harmonique, Pygmalion, Diabolus in Musica, and Accentus. He sang OPÉRA COMIQUE was founded in 1714 under the bass part in Weill’s Berliner Requiem at the the reign of Louis XIV. It is one of the oldest Festival Présence de Radio France. This season French dramatic and musical institutions along and the last he has interpreted le Grand Prêtre with the Opéra de Paris and the Comédie- de Jupiter in Castor et Pollux (con. Emmanuelle Française. Located in Paris in the charming Salle Haïm, Opéra de Dijon and Opéra de Lille), Achis Favart, Opéra Comique has produced the most and l’Ombre de Samuel in David et Jonathas famous pieces of French repertoire, as La Fille (con. D. Visse, Tourcoing), le Médecin in Pelléas du Regiment, , Mignon, et Mélisande (con. Jean-Claude Malgoire), Carmen, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, Pelléas et Polydorus and le Père de famille in L’Enfance du Mélisande, L’Heure Espagnole, Les Mamelles Christ at the Opéra d’Avignon, Héraclite in Les de Tirésias, La Voix Humaine, and more. Opéra Fêtes Vénitiennes at the Opéra Comique and the comique as a genre is represented by the Opéra Capitole in Toulouse (dir. William Christie). Comique company. The term “comique” does not mean that laughter is compulsory. Rather, sung LES ARTS FLORISSANTS (orchestra and chorus) lines are interspersed with spoken drama. Opéra William Christie, musical director and founder comique stands in contrast with opera, which is Paul Agnew, associate musical director and sung throughout, and its specifics were taught associate conductor until 1991. Today, the Opéra Comique is one of Jonathan Cohen, associate conductor the favorite venues for Baroque artists and lovers An ensemble of singers and instrumentalists and promotes the French repertoire from early to specializing in the performance of Baroque contemporary music. music on period instruments, Les Arts Florissants is renowned the world over. Each season the ensemble gives around 100 concerts and opera performances in France and is an active ambassador for French culture abroad. Founded in 1979 William Christie, the ensemble has played a pioneering role in the revival of a