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37 e festival international d’opéra baroque BEAUNE & romantique th 37 Beaune International Baroque & Romantic Opera Festival 2019 > 5 th to 28 th July . 4 week-ends Rossini’s Italiana in Algeria Cour des Hospices - July 2018 Photo Jean-Luc Cottier festival international d’opéra baroque BEAUNE & romantique 37 th Beaune International Baroque & Romantic Opera Festival 2019 > > 5 th to 28 th July . 4 week-ends Cour d’Honneur des Hospices de Beaune XV e s. Basilique Notre-Dame XII e & XIV e s. Press Relations : Opus 64 - Valérie Samuel & Pablo Ruiz 52, rue de l’Arbre sec 75001 Paris . Phone (33) 01 40 26 77 E-Mail : [email protected] & [email protected] Office of Festival : Place de la Halle & 1, rue de l’Hôtel-Dieu Antenne de l’Office de Tourisme BP 60071 / F 21200 Beaune cedex Phone. : + 33 (0) 3 80 22 97 20 E-mail : [email protected] Web Site : www.festivalbeaune.com Content Artistic Program Presentation of 37 th edition 5 Calender 7 Operas & Oratorios 8 à 16 Concerts & Recitals 18 à 22 Buffets gourmet before concerts 23 Partnerships 24 Pratical Informations 25 Short historical of Festival 26 e F E S T I V A L D E B E A U N E 37 E D I T I O N 2 0 1 9 4 > PRESENTATION OF THE 37 TH EDITION 2019 For its 37th edition the festival offers : talented new conductor in residence, Valentin 8 operas and oratorios and 4 recitals Tournet, aged 22, accompanied by his ensembles of La Chapelle Harmonique, will > Handel will once again open the conduct The Amorous Indies. festival with three new great lyric productions. > We celebrate simultaneously the 35th Considered as significant milestone in his anniversary of the founding of Gabrieli Consort personal life and the evolution of his musical and Players by Paul McCreesh who made their language : Saul, his first great dramatic oratorio debut in France, in Beaune 25 years ago and the composed in 1739 and based on an emotional 360th anniversary of the birth of Purcell. and colorful libretto that inspired Handel to an Considered as one of the most significant outstanding music of strong conviction. The masters in performing Purcell’s works, Paul guest conductor Leonardo Garcia Alarcon, McCreesh will conduct two lyric masterpieces: invited for the Handel oratorio cycle, will conduct The Fairy Queen and King Arthur. Considered this oratorio. Serse, composed in 1783, right as Purcell’s greatest success in his lifetime, Paul before Saul, is one of the few operas to be McCreesh and his Gabrieli Consort and Players considered as an opera buffa since it includes have successfully performed both operas in comic elements. The marvelous opening Beaune. For its recording for the label Winged immediately leads to the aria “Ombra mai fù”, Lion a new production will be given. Purcell one of the most famous larghetto, sung by delivers delightful partitions creating a Persian king Serse. The opera is conducted by continuous musical enchantment of exceptional Italian conductor Ottavio Dantone. The Dixit beauty. Dominus is Handel’s most successful motets > In the romantic cycle on period composed in Rome in 1707, at the age of 22. An instruments, Jérémie Rhorer, Mozart specialist example of Handel’s astounding capacity to conductor, revealed by the festival in 2006 with assimilate the Italian style, which he later reuses memorable Idomeneo, will conduct Beethoven’s in his English oratorios. Paul Agnew conducts great Symphony No 9 (considered by Richard this Dixit Dominus accompanied by William Wagner as the “last of all symphonies”). Christie’s Arts Florissants of which we are Beethoven uses for his last symphony the celebrating the 40th Anniversary of their creation famous romantic poem An die Freude (Ode to and the 35th year of their presence in Beaune Joy) written by Schiller. Jérémie Rhorer will Festival. “Bon anniversaire Cher William Christie perform the symphony in line with the original et Chers Arts Florissants ! Merci pour tous les work, accompanied by his orchestra Le Cercle concerts inoubliables que vous nous avez de l’Harmonie, that has become a reference over offerts”. the last years. > In the fascinating French music cycle, > 4 recitals: After the memorable recital 2 new productions: Lully’s Isis , his 5th lyric of last Summer, given for the 35th anniversary of tragedy, composed one year after Atys in 1677 the festivals creation, Andreas Scholl , together and conducted by Christophe Rousset with marvelous Norwegian soprano Mari accompanied by his Talents Lyriques. Le Cerf de Eriksmoen , wants to perform Pergolesi’s famous la Viéville said “this is the most savant of Lully’s Stabat Mater for the festival’s opening. Mari operas for which he took infinite punishment.” Eriksmoen will also sing in Beethoven’s Rarely performed this work inspired Purcell who Symphony No 9. Lawrence Zazzo offers a used the awesome and fascinating “Tremolos beautiful and original program with three choir” (act 4) in the famous frost scene in his The composers who have written operas for the King Arthur (which will be conducted by Paul famous castrato Senesino and to whom the McCreesh on the closing evening of the festival). Royal Academy of Music in London owes its Les Indes Galantes , the first of Rameau’s great success in the years 1727-27. We have the opera-ballet that brought new life to the genre, as pleasure to welcome again Damien Guillon in a the opera’s architecture has changed. Different tempting program dedicated to Purcell’s (and themes and different styles (dramatic for The Dowland’s) remarkable arias and songs like Generous Turk, tragic for The Incas of Peru and Music for a while , After her triumph last comic for The Savages). The opera achieved Summer in Handel’s opera Rodrigo , Ana Maria great success and was performed 320 times at Labin with her extraordinary soprano voice the Académie Royale in Paris. A young and performs this year great arias of Mozart operas. F E S T I V A L D E B E A U N E 37 e E D I T I O N 2 0 1 9 5 Calender WEEK-END 1 F 05. 07 concert Andreas Scholl , countertenor | Mari Eriksmoen , soprano | Pergolesi ‘s Stabat Mater Accademia Bizantina orch. | Alessandro Tampieri | Basilique Notre-Dame. 9 PM S 06. 07 oratorio Saul | Handel | Ch. de Namur & Orch. Millenium | Leonardo Garcia Alarcon | Basilique N.Dame . 9 PM Su 07. 07 recital Lawrence Zazzo , countertenor | Operas Arias | Handel, Bononcini... | Ens. La Nuova Musica | David Bates | Hospices Salle des Pôvres . 9 PM WEEK-END 2 F 12. 07 opera Isis | Lully | Ch. Namur & Orch. Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe Rousset | Cour des Hospices* . 9 PM S 13. 07 Dixit Dominus | Haendel Ch.& Orch. Les Arts Florissants | Paul Agnew | Basilique Notre-Dame . 9 PM Su 14. 07 recital Damien Guillon , countertenor | Music for a while : Arias and Songs | Purcell | Ens. Le Banquet Céleste | Basilique Notre- Dame . 9 PM WEEK-END 3 F 19. 07 opera "Serse" | Handel | Accademia Bizantina Orch. | Ottavio Dantone | Cour des Hospices*. 9 PM S 20. 07 Symphony No 9 | Beethoven | avant-première of 250 th anniversary of his birth in 2020 Ch. Spirito de Lyon & Orch. Le Cercle de l’Harmonie | Jérémie Rhorer | Cour des Hospices*. 9 PM Su 21. 07 recital Ana Maria Labin , soprano | Great operas arias | Mozart... | Antoine Palloc, piano | Hospices Salle des Pôvres . 9 PM WEEK-END 4 F 26. 07 opera Les Indes Galantes | Rameau | Ch. & Orch. La Chapelle Harmonique | Valentin Tournet | Cour des Hospices* . 9 PM S 27. 07 opera The Fairy Queen | Purcell | Gabrieli Choir, Consort & Players | Paul McCreesh | Cour Hospices* . 9 PM Su 28. 07 opera King Arthur | Purcell | Gabrieli Choir, Consort & Players | Paul McCreesh | Cour Hospices* . 9 PM F E S T I V A L D E B E A U N E 37 e E D I T I O N 2 0 1 9 6 Operas & Oratorios SAUL | HANDEL LEONARDO GARCIA ALARCON ISIS | LULLY CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET DIXIT DOMINUS | HANDEL PAUL AGNEW SERSE | HANDEL OTTAVIO DANTONE SYMPHONY N o 9 | BEETHOVEN JÉRÉMIE RHORER LES INDES GALANTES | RAMEAU VALENTIN TOURNET THE FAIRY QUEEN | PURCELL PAUL MC CREESH KING ARTHUR | PURCELL PAUL MC CREESH F E S T I V A L D E B E A U N E 37 e E D I T I O N 2 0 1 9 8 O R A T O R I O in concert Handel’s oratorios cycle G. F. HANDEL 1685 - 1759 Saul Oratorio in English in 3 acts, created on 16 th January 1739 at London King’s Theater. Libretto by Charles Jennens. CHOEUR DE CHAMBRE DE NAMUR & MILLENIUM ORCHESTRA Conductor : LEONARDO GARCIA ALARCON Saul, Samuel Christian Immler, bass David Lawrence Zazzo, countertenor Jonathan Samuel Boden, tenor Merab Katherine Watson, soprano Michal Ruby Hughes, soprano New production > Saturday 6th July - 9 PM . Basilique Notre-Dame This oratorio marks an important milestone in Handel’s personal history as well as the evolution of his musical language. He composed Saul right after the opera Serse in 1739. Handel was inspired by a text with well-rounded characters and dramatic effects to great powerful music. The story of Saul focuses on the first king of Israel's relationship with his successor, David as well as David’s relationship with Merab, and Michal, daughters of Saul but also Saul’s friendship with Jonathan and the war between Philistines and Hebrews. Remarkable arias are: David’s «Oh Lord, whose mercies numberless», Jonathan’s «Sin not, o King» or Merab’s vigorous aria «My soul rejects the thought». The most remarkable part of the oratorio is the intensely dramatic scene when Saul asks the Witch of Endor to raise the ghost of Samuel the prophet in the powerful recitative "Wretch that I am!".