Lyric Tragedy: A French Baroque Opera Recital

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PROLOGUE - CHAOS
Jean-Féry Rebel (1666-1747): Chaos

François Rebel (1701-1775) and François Francoeur (1698-1787): Air "Fureur Amour" (Scanderberg)

André-Cardinal Destouches (1672-1749): Sarabande - Air - Minuets (The Elements)

Antoine Dauvergne (1713-1797): Earthquake (Polyxène)

ACT 1 - WATER

François Rebel and François Francoeur: Air for Elementary Spirits (Scanderberg)

Jean-Baptiste Stuck (1680-1755): Air "C'en est donc fait" (Polydore)

Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764): Tender Air (Fêtes d’Hébé)

André-Cardinal Destouches: March, trio and air of the elemental spirits (Issé)

Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687): Air “Finally he is in my power” (Armide)

André-Cardinal Destouches: Air for the Nereids - Air for the divinities
(The Elements)

ACT 2 - THE AIR

André-Cardinal Destouches: Air for the hours (The Elements) Air for the hours and the zephyrs (The Elements) Passepied (The Elements)

André Campra (1660-1744): Air “My eyes close forever” (The Carnival of Venice)

Antoine Dauvergne: March (Hercule Mourant)

André-Cardinal Destouches: Sleep and Sarabande (Issé)

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Minuet and Tambourines (Surprises of love)

ACT 3 - FIRE

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Prelude (Platée)(Arrangement: Yves Rechsteiner)

Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764): Air “Black divinities” (Scylla and Glaucus)

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Storm (Platée) - Entrance of Polymnia (Les Boréades)

ACT 4 - EARTH

André-Cardinal Destouches: Musette and Passepied - Air for Pan - Rigaudons (Issé)

Pancrace Royer (1703-1755): Air “God of faithful lovers” (Zaïde)

François Rebel and François Francoeur: Musette

Jean-Philippe Rameau: Air “Cruel mother of loves” (Hippolyte and Aricie)

Marin Marais (1656-1728): Chaconne

François Rebel and François Francoeur: Tambourines


Véronique Gens soprano

Ensemble Les Surprises :
Anaëlle Blanc Verdin, Lika Laloum, Gabriel Grosbard, Gabriel Ferry, Adrien Carré, violins
Myriam Mahnane, Joël Oechslin, Tiphaine Coquempot, violas
Sandra Latour, Matthieu Bertaud, flutes
Xavier Miquel, Nathalie Petibon, oboes
Lucile Tessier, Amélie Boulas, bassoons
Julien Hainsworth, Marjolaine Cambon, cellos
Juliette Guignard, viola da gamba
Étienne Galletier, theorbo & guitar
Marie-Amélie Clément, double bass
Clément Geoffroy, harpsichord
Isabelle Cornelis, percussion
Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, conductor

Les Surprises and Véronique Gens paint a rich and vast panorama of French Baroque Opera or lyrical tragedy - from the 17th and 18th centuries.

The lively ensemble Les Surprises, under the intelligent direction of Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas, presents to the audience of the Ambronay Festival a lyrical tragedy highlighting French Baroque music and the soprano Véronique Gens.

In the middle of the 17th century, Italian opera spread throughout Europe. All of Europe? No: the diehard French only wanted to follow their own fashion, for which a truly national operatic genre was needed. The "first French opera" is a work by the organist Robert Cambert (1627-1677), on a libretto by the entrepreneur Pierre Perrin, Pomone, created in 1671. The all-powerful Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1787) bought the privilege of the Académie d'Opéra the following year, granting it a monopoly on a new genre: lyrical tragedy. He was thus able to create works perfectly conceived according to the tastes of the royal court and in the service of the image of his protector, the "greatest of heroes", the Sun King. Inspired by the declamation of classical theatre, Lully paid particular attention to the music which must serve the text and its true meaning, very different from the Italian cantabile. The form of the lyrical tragedy endured until the genius of Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) succeeded in modernizing it and participated in the development of the opera ballet, with its often allegorical or sometimes lighter and pastoral subjects.