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Programme produced by HarrietSmith;printed Part of Barbican Presents 2018–19 Alex Rosen Anthony Gregor Reinoud VanMechelen Jess Dandy Rachel Redmond William Christie Florissants Les Arts Part 1andPart 2 There willbeoneinterval of 20minutes between J SBach Tuesday 19 March 2019 7pm,Hall Florissants ArtsLes Passion St John Bach’s online. during your visit. Additional feedback canbegiven If anything limitsyour enjoyment pleaseletusknow with ahandkerchief. you feel theneedto coughorsneeze,pleasestifle it sake of other audiencemembersandtheartists,if prevent coughingduringaperformance. But,for the We appreciate thatit’snot always possible to members. can spoiltheenjoyment of your fellow audience set to Titmay causehigh-pitched feedback which entering thehall.Ifyour hearingaidisnot correctly you shouldswitch your hearingaidto Tsettingon Please remember thatto useourinductionloop a performance isstrictlyprohibited. capturing images orusingrecording devices during during theperformance. Taking photographs, Please turnoff watch alarms,phones, pagers etc Cabbell (tel 02036037930) by Trade WindsColourPrinters Ltd;advertising by Renato Dolcini St JohnPassion

bass (Jesus) contralto

bass-baritone (Pilate) director

soprano tenor

tenor (Evangelist)

2 time seenasthepoorrelation to the Bach’s Evangelist. Van Mechelen,whosingsthepartof the of LeJardin, includingtenor Reinoud soloists thisevening are previous members the successof thisschemethatmost of the his Jardin desVoix academy; it’stribute to young singers,whomhenurtures through He haslongbeenachampionof talented its founder anddirector WilliamChristie. celebrating its40thbirthday year –under which isgiven by LesArtsFlorissants– of Bach’s extraordinary A warm welcome to tonight’s performance Welcome St JohnPassion was for along St JohnPassion St St , Huw Humphreys, Head of Music,Barbican sublime experience. which continueto make thisPassion a the fervency andbeautyof Bach’s writing, dispelled. Now we canfocus instead on for anoratorio, that attitudehaslongbeen of the While someearlylisteners found thedrama Zelter. by Mendelssohn’steacher CarlFriedrich actually performed priorto this,in1822, is lesswell-known isthatthe by Mendelssohn,noless,in1829. What Matthew St JohnPassion , whichwas famously revived too overtly theatrical St John was was theatrical, as the theologian Christian Gerber theatrical, asthetheologianChristianGerber certainly shows astrong trend towards the singers withnamedroles, choirsandorchestras to elaborate compositions involving solo The evolution from thefirst chanted Passions northern Germany duringtheprevious century. times, buthad gainedparticularstrength in – atradition thatwent back to earlyChristian relating theevents leading to Christ’scrucifixion dramatised musicalsettingsof theGospeltexts Bach was slotting into atradition of increasingly Yet, incomposingPassions of thisparticulartype, gruelling sermonbetween thework’s two parts. the congregation would have alsoendured a important days inthechurch calendar, when the liturgy onGoodFriday, oneof themost Passions to beperformed inchurch aspart of And sure enough,Bach composedhis sombre reverence of areligious celebration. an act often invested with somethingof the a vital andmeaningfulpartof HolyWeek, alike, attending aPassion performance is For many people,believers andagnostics the great survivingPassions –the Today, itishard to imagine eitherof Bach’s two Passion St John Bach Sebastian Johann St John –ever beingmistaken for anopera. St Matthew (1724, rev 1725, 1732, 1749) and and was actually settingoutto be theatrical.After all, Leipzig’s St NicholasChurch inApril1724, Bach in composingmusicfor hisfirst GoodFriday in to whichGerberobjected, itseemsunlikely that, and Handelispresumably justthesortof thing openly operatic Passions by Keiser, Telemann others had already furnishedfor even more those thepoetBartholdHeinrichBrockes and with ariasandchorusesto words adapted from the presence initof urgent recitatives interlaced depiction of Christ’strialinPart 2),andwhile strikingly dramatic work (for instance, initsvivid Nevertheless, whilethe It’s justasifwe were atacomicopera”.’ nobility exclaimed: “Godsave us,my children! greatest bewilderment …Anelderlywidow of the at which‘allthepeoplewere thrown into the written of anunidentified Passion performance Christians andtheirsuccessors’.Gerberhad also not believe thatthey would recognise usas organ together withsomany instruments,Ido visit ourassemblies,andhearsucharoaring ‘if someof thosefirst Christiansshouldrise, recognised whenhecomplainedin1732 that of Kantor of St Thomas’s School–apostwhich at hisappointmenttheprevious May to thejob (1685–1750) St JohnPassion is a isa

3 Programme note 4 meine Seel’’(No 19) andavioladagamba violas d’amore inthebassarioso‘Betrachte, accompanying soloinstruments,includingtwo to befound, enhancedandcoloured by most reflective momentsinthePassion are or reaction isexplored; theseare where the which theaction stops andarelevant emotion the episodesprovided by theeightarias,in As afoil to thisnarrative element,there are almost hysterical intensity, by thechorus. are voiced, succinctlybutsometimeswith the utterances andexclamations of thecrowd for instance) are taken by solovoices, while of certain other characters (Peter andPilate, sung by abass;inaddition, thesmallerroles representing theEvangelist, withChrist’swords the Gospelitself,sunginrecitative by atenor strands. Atitscore isthenarrative, thetext of in four parallel andmutuallysupportive construction, whichtells itswell-known story a detailed andcomplex yet utterly coherent work whichismore thantwo hourslong,with than that.Bach’s achievement was to devise a In fact, the but rather to incite thelistener to devotion’. a nature asnot to make anoperatic impression, that itshallnot last too long,andshallbeof such stipulated thatheshould ‘so arrange themusic new employers, thetown council,had specifically music atallLeipzig’sfour mainchurches –Bach’s carried withitresponsibility for organising the St JohnPassion ismore complicated Programme note ©Lindsay Kemp to ourhumansensibilitiesandsympathies. it ultimately appealswithgreater directness emotionally charged events of HolyWeek, Matthew listener’s soulasthemore contemplative Maybe itdoesnot reach quite sofar into the is awork withitsown character andambitions. among both performers andlisteners thatthis grown, atestament to anincreasing realisation Matthew relation to thelarger, later andbetter-known The consoling farewell to Christ’searthlyincarnation. second, ‘Ruhtwohl’ (No 39),isamoving and that withinitiscontained hisultimate glory;the but onewhich,atthesametime,reminds us depiction of Christ’sagony andhumiliation, the very openingmovement, isaharrowing the work like massive structural pillars:thefirst, Finally, there are thegreat chorusesthatframe moments of recognition andidentification. would certainly have provided listeners with of thecongregation actually joiningin,they of-entry was probably not literal inthesense contemporaries, andwhiletheirrole aspoints- would have beenextremely familiar to Bach’s element represented by thechorales. These The third strand isthemeditative andcommunal superb alto aria‘Esistvollbracht!’ (No 30). (associated inBach’s timewithdeath)inthe St JohnPassion but,asagrippingdepictionof the . Recently, however, itspopularityhas was longseenasapoor St St St St Pascal Gely About the performers Notable amonghisrecent operatic work are Scarlatti, Purcell, Handel,MozartandHaydn. works by composersincluding Monteverdi, Rossi, has alsoledmany acclaimed performances of which thenwent onto tour internationally. He of Lully’s recognition camein1987 withtheproduction concert hallandtheopera house.Majorpublic ensemble, hemade hismarkinboth the As director of thisvocal andinstrumental when hefounded LesArtsFlorissants. 1971. Theturningpointinhiscareer camein1979 Harvard andYale, hehaslived inFrance since wide audience.BorninBuffalo, andeducated at reintroduction of French Baroque musicto a teacher WilliamChristiehasspearheaded the Harpsichordist, conductor, musicologistand William Christie William Christie Atys attheOpéra ComiqueinParis, director

he launched the Dans les Jardins de William he launchedtheDanslesJardins deWilliam for young singers, theJardin desVoix. In2012, twice ayear. Healsocreated in2002anacademy the Juilliard School,where hegives masterclasses Christie hassince2007beenartist-in-residence at Wishing to develop hiswork asateacher, William Mass. singers of Les Arts Florissants. singers of LesArtsFlorissants. the Juilliard Schoolalongwiththemusiciansand every summer hewelcomes young musiciansfrom the French village of Thiré intheVendée, where Christie festival inhisown gardens, located in l’italienne et àboire, Vol 2 include 100 recordings. Hismostrecent recordings His extensive discography includesmore than Philharmonic. appeared asaguestconductor withtheBerlin de Lyon. Between 2002and2007heregularly Metropolitan Opera, ZurichOpera andOpéra Glyndebourne andatopera housessuchasthe often appearsatopera festivals including As aguestconductor, WilliamChristie Campra’s Caen in2014 before touring internationally; and ‘Rameau, maître àdanser’,whichpremiered in Jonathas Academy of Musicin2010; Charpentier’s Atys attheOpéra ComiqueandtheBrooklyn Si vous vouliez unjour–Airssérieux at theAix-en-Provence Festival in2012; , Les fêtes vénitiennes Bien quel’amour , La HarpeReine and Bach’s Bminor in2015. , Un jardin à David et

5 About the performers 6 Chris Wallace Rachel Redmond Passion Her repertoire alsoincludesBach’s S ( ( Galatea Witch ( included Angel( Other roles withLesArtsFlorissantshave Academy of Music. Théâtre duCapitole deToulouse andBrooklyn fêtes Venitiennes Irène, LéontineandFlore (Campra’s Comique asIris(Lully’s invitation shemade herdebutattheOpéra Christie andPaul Agnew. AtWilliamChristie’s for young singers,performing underWilliam Jardin desVoix, LesArtsFlorissants’academy Rachel Redmond beganhercareer withthe Rachel Redmond Actéon Cecilia, Virgin andMartyr Dido andAeneas , ). St JohnPassion ), Captive ( Jephtha ) attheOpéra Comique,the soprano David et Jonathas andCantata, BWV199, Atys ), Damon( ), BelindaandFirst ) andArtébuse ), andperformed Acis and t Matthew Les ), Cecilia Purcell’s debut attheGöttingen International Handel Second Woman ( her return to theAix-en-Provence Festival as at the2018 SouthBankSkyArtsAwards, nominated for TheTimesBreakthrough Award for EnglishTouring Opera, for whichshewas in therole of Susanna( Recent andfuture highlightsincludeherdebut Orchestra. Orchestra andBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Baroque Orchestra, Norwegian Chamber She hasworked withtheEuropean Union Beaune, Lessay andLaChaise-Dieufestivals. Caravansérail. Shehasalsoappeared atthe Correspondences, EnsembleAedes andLe de MusiqueBaroque deVersailles, Ensemble Collegio Ghislieri,DunedinConsort,theCentre de MúsicaAntiga,CapellaMediterranea, Jordi Savall andtheCentre Internacional Rachel Redmond isaregular soloistwith Monteverdi, Pergolesi, Rameau andVivaldi. and works by Boismortier, Jommelli,Galuppi, Mondonville’s Juditha triumphans Messiah der Eitelkeit enfers Charpentier’s Psalms Beethoven’s MassinC,Bernstein’s Festival. , Graupner’s , Brahms’s , The FairyQueen Saul , Handel’s and La descente d’Orphéeaux Isbé Ein deutschesRequiem Dido andAeneas , Orff’s Nine GermanArias , SirKarl Jenkins’s Diese Zeit ist ein Spiel Diese ZeitisteinSpiel Esther The Marriage of Figaro , Rameau’s Carmina burana , Israel inEgypt Chichester ) andher Pygmalion Gloria , Vivaldi’s , , , , )

Jess Dandy played themulti-partcontralto role inSirGeorge Orfeo House/Roundhouse production of Monteverdi’s a memberof theensembleinRoyal Opera also covered therole of the Messengerandwas Maxwell andPhilipVenables’s workshops onnew works by SoumikDatta/Glyn Opera highlightsincludetwo Royal Opera House Frühling Scholar. is aBritten–Pears Young ArtistandHeidelberger and anOxford LiederYoung Artistin2018, and of the2017 LondonBach Society SingersPrize graduated withdistinction.Shewas thewinner which sheheldafellowship andfrom whichshe and theGuildhallSchoolof Music&Drama, at Jess DandystudiedatTrinity College,Cambridge, Jess Dandy underconductor Christopher Moulds,and contralto 4.48 Psychosis . She . She with theHallé;Berlioz’s and Tasmanian Symphony orchestras. Passion BBC Symphony Orchestra; andBach’s the Choirof King’sCollege,Cambridge; Oxford LiederFestival; Mozart’sRequiem with Orchestra andChorusof Wales; recitals atthe Mass ViaVictrix(1914–1918) Engagements thisseasonincludeStanford’s Stopes Hall andthepremiere of Alex Mills’s B minorMassinEdinburgh andattheWigmore Consort, alto solosintheirperformances of Bach’s Handel’s Recent engagements includearecording of and PhilharmoniaVoices. Concert d’Astrée, Polyphony, theGabrieliConsort with theMonteverdi Choir, TheKing’sConsort,Le experienced ensemblesingerandhasworked Prom underChristopher Stark. Sheisalsoan Wills andparticipated inthe2017 Multi-Storey De Staat Orchestra underValery Gergiev, Andriessen’s and SallePleyel withtheLondonSymphony Fields, Berlioz’s included Mozart’sRequiem atSt Martin-in-the- On theconcertplatform herappearances have conducted by FinneganDownie Dear. Benjamin’s attheTête-a-Tête Opera Festival. with Stephen Layton andtheAdelaide at the Queen Elizabeth Hall with Simon at theQueenElizabethHallwithSimon Samson Into theLittleHill Roméo et Juliette with John Butt and the Dunedin withJohnButtandtheDunedin Les nuitsd’été with BBC National with BBC National for Shadwell Opera, at the Barbican at theBarbican Dear Marie Dear Marie with the withthe St John St John Messiah

7 About the performers 8 Senne Van der Ven awarded theCaecilia Prizefor Young Musician studied withDinaGrossberger. In2017 hewas the Royal Conservatory of Brussels,where he Reinoud Van Mechelengraduated in2012 from Reinoud VanMechelen title-roles in In recent seasonshehasperformed the Musicali andHespèrionXXI. Consort, CapriccioStravagante, Scherzi L’Arpeggiata, LudusModalis,B’Rock, Ricercar Harmonique, IlGardellino, InsulaOrchestra, Les Talens Lyriques,Pygmalion,LePoème Vocale, LeConcertSpirituel,LaPetite Bande, leading ensembles,includingCollegium He hasalsoappeared asasoloistwithother Brooklyn Academy of MusicinNew York. Philharmonie andOpéra Comiqueandthe Centre, Palais desBeaux-Arts inBrussels,Paris Versailles, BolshoiTheatre inMoscow, Barbican Edinburgh festivals, Royal AlbertHall,Château de with concertsattheAix-en-Provence and regularly performed asasoloistwiththegroup, run by LesArtsFlorissants.Sincethenhehas Jardin desVoix, theacademy for young singers In 2011 hewas selected to take partinthefifth of theYear by theBelgianmusicpress. Reinoud Van Mechelen Dardanus (Opéra national tenor (Evangelist)

Natalie J Watts cantatas, released lastyear to criticalacclaim. followed thiswithasolodiscof Clérambault his first soloCD,of ariasby J SBach. He numerous CDsandDVDs andin2016 released Reinoud Van Mechelenhasfeatured on Pygmalion well asperforming the title-role inRameau’s morale espirituale Charpentier’s anniversary of LeConcertSpirituel;sangin in own ensemble,a nocte temporis; participated ( ( Christie. InconcerthealsosangBelmonte as Jason( In 2016–17 hemade hisZurichOpera debut Royal inVersailles, andTheater anderWien). en-Provence, Festival deBeaune,Théâtre Montpellier andRadio-France, Festival d’Aix- de Bordeaux) and the NationalOpera Studio andamemberof Young ArtistatGlyndebourne,astudentof Artist atEnglishNationalOpera, aJerwood Tenor Anthony Gregory was aHarewood Anthony Gregory Anthony Gregory Lakmé The Abductionfrom theSeraglio Un opéra imaginaire ). Lastseasonheperformed withhis Médée atDijon Opera. Actéon ) conducted by William withLesArtsFlorissants,as Zoroastre tenor andMonteverdi’s to markthe30th (Festival de andGérald Selva London HandelFestival. Royal Festival Hallandperformances atthe Symphony Orchestra; Turnage’s for tenor, hornandstrings tour withLesArtsFlorissants;Britten’s concert seasonincludesthecurrent European MacRae’s Don Ottavio andtheworld premiere of Stuart a return to Norwegian NationalOpera as Bernstein’s Highlights of thisseasonincludethetitle-role in the St Luke’s MusicSociety. BBC Philharmonic,theArmonicoConsortandfor Bach Choir, Royal Scottish NationalOrchestra, with theRoyal PhilharmonicOrchestra, Oxford Edinburgh andLufthansaBaroque festivals and On theconcertplatform heperformed atthe Don Ottavio ( his debutwithNorwegian NationalOpera as Dardanus for LesArtsFlorissantsandthetitle-role in More recently, hehassung Odoardo ( Handel Festival. Opera Company; and the Verbier Festival; and EnglishTouring Opera; House; Tour; Monteverdi’s The Turn of theScrew English NationalOpera; of Ryan Wigglesworth’s Aix-en-Provence Festival; theworld premiere Alcina for GlyndebourneFestival Opera; Handel’s and Britten’s seasons, hehassunginCavalli’s the Verbier Festival Academy. Inthepastfew for theTeatro Real inMadrid andthe Così fan tutte for EnglishTouring Opera, andmade The Silver Tassie Anthropocene Candide Don Giovanni A MidsummerNight’sDream Orfeo atBergen NationalOpera, Lucio Silla for Glyndebourneon for Opéra deLimoges Carmina burana Rodelinda The Winter’s Tale atScottish Opera. His for theRoyal Opera Don Giovanni andMark-Anthony , both withBBC ). ). Il re pastore for theClassical Hipermestra for theLondon Ariodante Serenade and and at the at the for for for for

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Philippe Delval Risonanza andFabio Bonizzoni;Landi’s Bach’s Aeneas More recently he has sungAeneas ( Opéra deNantes. and Ottone ( Glyndebourne Festival underWilliamChristie; de Versailles; Danao (Cavalli’s (Rossi’s and released by Warner Classicsin2017; Satiro Galante; Leporello ( La Cenerentola Foundation; with René Jacobs attheRoyaumont Montanari; thetitle-role in Dafne Highlights of pastseasonsincludeCaldara’s Korea, ChinaandJapan. the group inEurope, theUSA, Russia,Australia, singers runby LesArtsFlorissants,touring with seventh Jardin desVoix, theacademy for young Bartoli. In2015 hewas chosento take partinthe (2009 and2010) where heworked withCecilia He was amemberof theGstaad Vocal Academy graduated inmusicologyfrom Pavia University. Renato DolcinistudiedwithVincenzoMannoand Renato Dolcini morte diOrfeo Renato Dolcini atLaFenice, Venice, withStefano Christmas Oratorio Orfeo ) with Christie and Les Arts Florissants; ) withChristieandLesArtsFlorissants; L’incoronazione diPoppea ) withRaphaël PichonattheOpéra withFabio BiondiandEuropa atDutch NationalOpera with bass-baritone (Pilate) Don Giovanni The Marriage of Figaro in Milan with La inMilanwithLa Hipermestra ), recorded Dido and Dido and ) at the ) atthe La La ) at ) at

9 About the performers 10 Schöpfung Poppea he appeared asSeneca( Schöpfung and undertook aEuropean tour of Haydn’s Philharmonic inBeethoven’s Choral Fantasy, Orchestra, made hisdebutwiththeNew York Baroque Orchestra andHouston Symphony Last seasonhesangin USA andinternationally. concert hallandtheopera houseboth inthe Alex Rosen isinincreasing demandinthe Alex Rosen and a Harmonia Mundi,whichwon a with Raphaël PichonandEnsemblePygmalionfor His discography includes Geneva underLeonardo García Alarcón. Israeli Opera inTel Aviv; and Passion and Bonizzoni;thecurrent tour of Bach’s Handel’s Current andfuture engagements include Concerto de’Cavalieri. Porpora’s the Salzburg Festival underChristieandin as Senecain the Potsdam Festival. Healsomade hisdebut Christophe Rousset; andMelani’s Alex Rosen Choc deClassica ; Guglielmo( ) withCincinnatiOpera, reprised La Resurrezione Iole andperformed inaconcertversion withLesArtsFlorissants.Lastsummer bass(Jesus) L’incoronazione diPoppea attheBremen Festival with Così fan tutte . Messiah with La Risonanza withLaRisonanza Stravaganza d’Amore! L’incoronazione di Les Indesgalantes Diapason d’Or withthePortland ) at the New ) attheNew L’Europa St John St John at at Die Die at at Die Die

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performances of operas andoratorios. its many acclaimed concertorsemi-staged profile intheconcerthall,asillustrated by found mostsuccess.Itenjoys anequallyhigh field of opera thatLesArtsFlorissantshas triumphantly revived inMay 2011, itisinthe Opéra ComiqueinParis in1987, whichwas Since itsproduction of baton over to Britishtenor Paul Agnew. since 2007, hasregularly passedtheconductor’s The Ensembleisdirected by WilliamChristiewho, but whichisnow widelyperformed andadmired. Baroque repertoire that had longbeenneglected played apioneeringrole intherevival of a opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Ithas William Christie,andtakes itsnamefrom an Franco-American harpsichordist andconductor its 40thbirthday, was founded in1979 by the Les ArtsFlorissants,whichthisyear celebrates The renowned vocal andinstrumental ensemble Florissants Les Arts Foundation’s SongandLiedAcademy, inParis. duos intheinaugural seasonof theRoyaumont concerts withpianistMichałBielasoneof four Radamisto of Bach’s Florissants in This seasonAlex Rosen appearswithLesArts Florissants. of Handel’s discography of over 100 recordings underthe Les ArtsFlorissantshasanaward-winning Barcelona, Moscow andelsewhere. to New York, London,Brussels,Vienna,Madrid, French culture abroad, beingregularly invited festivals –andisanactive ambassador for the Château deVersailles, aswell asatnumerous Comique, theThéâtre desChamps-Élysées and a residency, theThéâtre deCaen, theOpéra – atthePhilharmoniedeParis, where itholds 100 concertsandopera performances inFrance Each seasonLesArtsFlorissantsgives around St JohnPassion withOpera Lafayette. Healsogives Acis andGalatea Die Schöpfung Atys , and sings in Handel’s , andsingsinHandel’s by Lullyatthe andthecurrent tour with Les Arts withLesArts Vincent Pontet pupils from theJuilliard Schoolandfinalists from brings together artistsfrom LesArtsFlorissants, départemental de laVendée. Anannualevent, it Christie, inpartnershipwiththeConseil created thefestival DanslesJardins deWilliam In 2012, WilliamChristieandLesArtsFlorissants and for both adults and children. amateur musiciansandnon-musicians, the world. Theseare designedfor both and elsewhere inFrance andallaround the PhilharmoniedeParis, intheVendée events aimed atbuildingnew audiencesat Les ArtsFlorissantsalsoorganises numerous exchange between theUSA andFrance. School, whichsince2007hasallowed anartistic Les ArtsFlorissantsandNew York’s Juilliard fruitful partnershipbetween WilliamChristie, and chorusfor aproduction. There isalsoa conservatory studentsto jointheorchestra Juniors programme, launchedin2007, enables of new singersinto thelimelight.TheArtsFlo has already brought asubstantial number created in2002,itisheldevery two years and notably theAcademy of theJardin desVoix: education programmes for young musicians, In recent years, ithaslaunchedseveral baton of WilliamChristieandPaul Agnew. saw thecreation of theLesArtsFlorissants– creation, heritage anddissemination. Lastyear an award whichdistinguishesprojects associating Florissants andLesJardins deWilliamChristie– of ‘Centre culturel deRencontre’ for LesArts at theFontevraud Abbey andtheaccolade directed by Paul Agnew, anew annualevent Voix inThiré, thecreation of aSpring Festival noteworthy events: thesettlementof LeJardin des This aimwas furthered in2017 through some establish apermanentcultural venue inThiré. the festival, LesArtsFlorissantsisworking to Christie atThiré, intheVendée. Inaddition to musicales Le Jardin desVoix for concertsand Investment Bankare itsPrincipalSponsors. Florissants andCrédit Agricole Corporate & Selz Foundation,AmericanFriends of LesArts named ‘Centre Culturel deRencontre’. The Philharmonie deParis since2015 andhasbeen The Ensemblehasbeeninresidence atthe de laVendée andtheRégionPays delaLoire. the French Ministryof Culture, the Département Les ArtsFlorissantsreceives financial supportfrom his entire Thiré estate to theFoundation. William ChristieFoundation. Christiehasgifted in thegardens created by William promenades

11 About the performers 12 Paul Agnew Director Associate Musical William Christie Founder Musical Director/ Les Arts Florissants Arts Les

Violin 1 Elena Andreyev Alix Verzier Cello Simon Heyerick Galina Zinchenko Viola Patrick Oliva Catherine Girard Tami Troman Bardonnèche Sophie de Emmanuel Resche Hiro Kurosaki Charles Zebley Serge Saitta Flute

leader Marie Van Rhijn Harpsichord/Organ Thomas Dunford Lute Joseph Carver Double Bass Myriam Rignol Viola dagamba Cyril Poulet Cello Basso continuo RobinBillet Claude Wassmer Bassoon Yanina Yacubsohn Pier LuigiFabretti Oboe Virginie Thomas Maud Gnidzaz Soprano Choir St JohnPassion Edition of Bach’s uses theBärenreiter Tonight’s performance Laurent Collobert Anicet Castel Bass Sean Clayton Jonathan Spicher Thibaut Lenaerts Tenor Christophe Baska Brian Cummings Théophile Alexandre Countertenor Juliette Perret Eugénie DePadirac