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\n●Performed in English with Chinese and English subtitles.
●Suitable for age 12+.Children under age 12 need to be accompanied by an adult.
\n\n●Latecomers must follow staff instructions for entry and re-entry.
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Les Arts Florissants
\n\nFounded in 1979 by William Christie, Les Arts Florissants has become one of the most internationally acclaimed Baroque vocal and instrumental ensembles.
\n\nSpecialized in the performance of Baroque music on period instruments, Les Arts Florissants is renowned the world over for having played a pioneering role in the revival of 17th and 18th century Baroque repertoire. Under the baton of William Christie and Paul Agnew, the Ensemble gives around 100 performances and opera performances each year in France and all over the world, with many acclaimed concert or semi-staged performances of operas and oratorios, secular and sacred chamber-music programs as well as large-scale works.
\n\nLes Arts Florissants has launched several education programs for young musicians: Le Jardin des Voix, its Academy for young singers created in 2002, and since 2007, the Arts Flo Juniors program for conservatory instrumentalist students and a partnership with The Juilliard School. It also organizes numerous outreach and educational events aimed at building new audiences.
\n\nIn order to allow everyone to discover its rich repertoire, it has produced an impressive discography of nearly 100 recordings (CD and DVD), especially with the Les Arts Florissants collection in collaboration with harmonia mundi.
\n\nIn residence at the Philharmonie de Paris since 2015, Les Arts Florissants develops a strong attachment to the Vendée as well, a region of France where William Christie has made his home. It is indeed in the village of Thiré, where he lives, that the festival Dans les Jardins de William Christie was launched in 2012 in partnership with the Conseil départemental de la Vendée. This place is now set to become the beating heart of Les Arts Florissant's activities, with several key projects. 2017 is a turning point in this respect, with the settlement of the Jardin des Voix in Thiré, the creation of a Spring Festival directed by Paul Agnew, and the obtention of the French national label « Centre Culturel de Rencontre » for Les Arts Florissants projects in the Département de la Vendée and the Région Pays de la Loire. In 2018 has been created the Fondation Les Arts Florissants – William Christie. William Christie gifted his entire Thiré estate to the Foundation.
\n\nLes Arts Florissants receives financial support from the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Département de la Vendée and the Région Pays de la Loire. The Ensemble has been in residence at the Philharmonie de Paris since 2015. The Selz Foundation, American Friends of Les Arts Florissants and Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank are Principal Sponsors.
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William Christie
\n\nHarpsichordist, conductor, musicologist and teacher, William Christie is a pioneer in the rediscovery and introduction of French Baroque music to a wide audience. Born in Buffalo, and educated at Harvard and Yale, the turning point in his career came in 1979 when he founded Les Arts Florissants. As director of this vocal and instrumental ensemble, major public recognition came in 1987 with the production of Lully's Atys at the Opéra Comique in Paris, followed by many other successes in the French and European Baroque repertoire.
\n\nNotable among his recent operatic work are: Campra's Les Fêtes vénitiennes in 2015 at the Paris Opéra Comique and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Theodora in 2016 at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées; in 2018, Handel’s Jephtha at the Opéra national de Paris, Ariodante at the Wiener Staatsoper, L'Incoronazione di Poppea at the Salzburg Festival, and John Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera on European tour.
\n\nAs a guest conductor William Christie often appears at opera festivals including Glyndebourne (Giulio Cesare in 2018) and opera houses such as the Metropolitan Opera or the Zurich Opernhaus.
\n\nHis extensive discography includes more than 100 recordings. The most recent ones, “Un jardin à l'italienne”, “Bien que l'amour” and Bach’s B Minor Mass were released by harmonia mundi in the collection « Les Arts Florissants ».
\n\nWishing to develop further his work as a teacher, in 2002 William Christie created with Les Arts Florissants a biennial Academy for young singers, Le Jardin des Voix. Since 2007 he has been artist in residence at the Juilliard School in New York.
\n\nIn 2012, he launched the festival Dans les Jardins de William Christie in his own gardens, located in the French village of Thiré in the Vendée. William Christie has bequeathed his real-estate assets to the Foundation Les Arts Florissants–William Christie created in 2017.
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Creative and Production Team
\n\nMusical direction|William Christie
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Emmanuelle de Negri, soprano *
\nKatherine Watson, soprano *
\nTim Mead, countertenor
\nJames Way, tenor *
\nPadraic Rowan, bass *
\n* Former laureates of Le Jardin des Voix, Les Arts Florissants' academy for young singers
\nChoir and orchestra of Les Arts Florissants
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Choir
\n\nSopranos| Maud Gnidzaz, Virginie Thomas, Juliette Perret, Sheena Wolstencroft, Cécile Granger, Julia Wischniewski, Leila Zlassi, Solange Añorga
\nMezzo-sopranos|Alice Gregorio, Alice Habellion
\nCountertenors|Bruno Le Levreur, Brian Cummings, Christophe Cbaska
\nTenors|Michael-Loughlin Smith, Edouard Haezebrouck, David Ghilardi, David Lefort, Matthieu Peyregne
\nBasse| Laurent Collobert, Anicet Castel, Christophe Gautier, Marduk Serrano Lopez, Yannis François
\nOrchestra
Violin|Hiro Kurosaki, Emmanuel Resche, Catherine Girard, Christophe Robert, Myriam Gevers, Michèle Sauvé, Bernadette Charbonnier, Patrick Oliva, Sophie Gevers-Demoures, Sophie de Bardonnèche, TBC, TBC
\nViola|Galina Zinchenko, Simon Heyerick, Jean-Luc Thonnerieux, Kayo Saito
\nCello| Elena Andreyev, Cyril Poulet, Cécile Verolles
\nDoublebass|Joseph Carver
\nOboe|Pier Luigi Fabretti, Machiko Ueno
\nBassoon|Niels Coppalle, TBC
\nHorn|Nicolas Chedmail, Philippe Bord
\nTrumpet|Rupprecht Drees, Gilles Rapin
\nTimbal|Laurent Sauron
\nBasso Continuo
Cello|David Simpson
\nDoublebass|Jonathan Cable
\nOrgan|Florian Carré
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