Baroque music lovers make a pilgrimage to Beaune to indulge in the rich offerings of the International Baroque Opera Festival. Staying true to the vision of Anne Blanchard and the late Kader Hassissi, the festival’s new artistic director, Maximilien Hondemarck, has unveiled a program where regular attendees will once again find the great names of […]

Since this summer, music lovers have known that Voltaire aspired to provide Rameau with an opera libretto about Samson, the well-known biblical figure famous for his complicated history with the temptress Delilah, who cut his hair. Unfortunately, royal censorship refused to allow this sacred story to be staged in an opera (something Saint-Saëns would achieve […]

Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble a nocte temporis have already demonstrated their affinity with the repertoire of Rameau. A new project brings them closer once again to the great French composer of the 17th century with the famous Pygmalion, a one-act ballet created in 1748. In collaboration with the Centre de Musique Baroque de […]

Platée, Rameau’s masterpiece, will be performed at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse from 19 to 24 March 2022 and then at the Opéra Royal in Versailles from 18 to 22 May. Conducted by fellow conductor Hervé Niquet (at the head of the Concert Spirituel), the eagerly awaited production by Corinne and Gilles Benizio (Shirley […]

Rameau and Marc Minkowski have enjoyed a perfect idyll for many years, with numerous productions on stage and on disc. The conductor at the head of the Musiciens du Louvre had even celebrated the talents of the Baroque composer by imagining an imaginary symphony to his glory. He is repeating a New Symphony with Voice […]

It was to be one of the highlights of the season, the new production of Rameau’s Hippolyte et Aricie by Jeanne Candel was expected at the Opéra Comique from November 11th. All is not lost because, thanks to everyone’s efforts, opera lovers will have the chance to attend the unique livestream performance on ARTE Concert […]