BEAUNE

38e festival internationald’opéra baroque& romantique

38° Festival Internationald’Opéra Baroque& Romantique 2020from 10th July to 2 Augustnd . 4 weekendCour des Hospices . Basilique Notre-Dame

38° Festival International

d’Opéra Baroque & Romantique 2020

from 10th

July to 2nd

August . 4 weekends

Basilique Notre-Dame XIIth & XIVth c.

BEAUNE

festival internationald’opéra baroque& romantique

Cour d’Honneur des Hospices de Beaune XV c.

C o n t e n t s

Artistic programme

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Calender 6

Pratical informations 23

Supports & Partnerships 22

Buffets & tastings 21

Festival’s history 24

Presentation of 38th

festival 5

Concerts and recitals 16 à 20

Operas and Oratorios 7 à 15

On the program of this 38th edition:7 operas and oratorios

> The festival starts with Jérémie Rhorerwho will conduct, en primeur in Beaune, theamazing “The Magic Flute”, magic and fairy-likeopera that Mozart composed in the last months ofhis life and that, at every moment, fascinates andcarries us with Tamino and Pamina into the «Reallife», where Good and Evil, Day and Night, Loveand Hatred alternate in a perpetual dance.

> Christophe Rousset and his TalensLyriques continue their exploration and therediscovery of the work of Antonio Salieri,composer, contemporary although controversialof Mozart, one of the most important of his time,by performing his opera Armida, the one of hisgreatest successes, which they will give in worldpremiere. By associating the musical charactersof the French operas and Italian operas.

> With “Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria”, weopen a trilogy of Monteverdi’s operas led by anew guest conductor, Stéphane Fuget, one of hismost eminent performers. Monteverdi, at thepeak of his art, composes for this Ulysses severalof the most grandiose scenes of dramaticliterature, particular in Act 1, the lament ofPenelope who deplores the never ending waitingfor the return of Ulysses («Torna, torna, dehtorna, deh torna Ulisse «).

> William Christie and Robert Carsenoffer a program designed in the form of apasticcio, as it was so popular with the Baroqueaudience: a delicious patchwork of musical jewelsselected from the finest pages in the Europeanmusic repertoire. Seventeenth and eighteenthcenturies will be performed by two exceptionalsoloists’ mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre andcounter-tenor Jakub Jozef Orlinski.

> Ottavio Dantone conducts “Il Trionfodel Tempo e del Disinganno”, Haendel’s firstoratorio composed at the age of 22 in Romeduring his trip to Italy, and which already bearswitness to the extraordinary stylistic mastery of amusician freshly imported from multiplevirtuosities.

> Jean-Christophe Spinosi returns toVivaldi, a composer he had already beautifullyperformed in Orlando Furioso or Finda Ninfa. Heconducts L’Olimpiade, one of his most beautiful

compositions in which the constantly renewedmusical writing knows how to take advantage ofthe great variety of the dramatic situations.

> After he brilliantly conducted Les Indesgalantes last summer, the 24 year old ValentinTournet comes back to Beaune with his musicalensemble, La Chapelle harmonique, to performthe complete 6 Bach Motets, in German.Composed for the funeral ceremonies of highdignitaries, these motets are considered asBach’s most completed works and a climax inWestern sacred music. Thus the famousmasterpieces – Jesu meine Freude and Komm,Jesu, Komm – show a perfect balance incelebrating man’s farewell to his body and to theworld. They thoroughly lead to an astonishing andmoving performance.

> Leonardo Garcia Alarcon will conduct“The Magnificat”, one of Bach’s most famoussacred music. With a confusing wealth ofinvention, the Cantor demonstrates his sense ofimage, his desire to put musical expression in linewith the symbols of the libretto.

> After the sensational 9th Symphonylast summer, Jérémie Rhorer continues hisBeethoven cycle, with two new symphonies: theSymphony No. 3, called «Eroïca», which revisitswith sensitivity the heroic and martial style thathad invaded many European symphonies duringthe years 1790-1815 and the Symphony No. 5with its famous motif of Destiny knocking on thedoor, before irrigating all the musical material.

> 3 recitals: Mari Eriksmoen, awonderful Norwegian soprano, performs Mozart’sand Haendel’s opera arias around the greatheroines he has so magnified. Chiara Skerath, ayoung soprano, performs Gluck’s and Mozart’sarias. At the end of this 38th edition, AndreasScholl, fetish countertenor of the festival, since1994, offers us a program entirely focused onNeapolitan cantatas and arias of the 17th and18th centuries. Oberlinger.

Anne BlanchardDirectrice Artistique

> PRESENTATION OF 38th FESTIVAL 2020

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WEEKEND 1

F 10. 07 opera “Die Zauberflöte“ (The Magic Flute) of Mozart |Ch. Spirito & Orch. Le Cercle de l’Harmonie | Jérémie Rhorer | Cour des Hospices*. 9 p.m.

Sa 11. 07 opera “Armida” of Salieri (recreation in world premiere) |Orchestre Les Talens Lyriques | Christophe. Rousset | Cour des Hospices* . 9 p.m.

Su 12. 07 Recital Mari Eriksmoen, soprano | “Great operas arias” of Handel, Mozart | Antoine Palloc, piano | Hospices Salle des Pôvres . 9 p.m.

WEEKEND 2

F 17. 07 concert “Symphony 3 & 5” of Beethoven | 250th

Beethoven’s birthdayOrchestre Le Cercle de l’Harmonie | Jérémie Rhorer | Cour des Hospices* . 9 p.m.

Sa 18. 07 opera “Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria” of Monteverdi | Orchestre les Epopées | Stéphane Fuget | Cour des Hospices*. 9 p.m.

Su 19. 07 Recital Chiara Skerath, soprano | “Great operas arias” of Mozart, Gluck | Antoine Palloc, piano | Hospices Salle des Pôvres . 9 p.m.

WEEKEND 3

F 24. 07 opera Pasticcio “Tell me the Truth about Love” “ Operas arias” of Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau... Les Arts Florissants | William Christie | Basilique Notre-Dame . 9 p.m.

Sa 25. 07 oratorio “Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” of Handel | Orch. Accademia Bizantina | Ottavio Dantone | Basilique Notre-Dame . 9 p.m.

Su 26. 07 “Magnificat” of Bach | Ch. de Namur & Capella Mediterranea | Leonardo Garcia Alarcon | Basilique N. Dame . 9 p.m.

WEEKEND 4

F 31. 07 complete 6 Motets of Bach | Choeur & orch. La Chapelle Harmonique | Valentin Tournet | Cour des Hospices*. 9 p.m.

Sa 01. 08 opera “L’Olimpiade” of Vivaldi | Ensemble Matheus | Jean-Christophe Spinosi | Cour des Hospices* . 9 p.m.

Su 02. 08 Recital Andreas Scholl, countertenor | “Neapolitain Cantatas”Ensemble 1700 | Dorothee Oberlinger | Basilique Notre-Dame. 9 p.m.

Calender

THE MAGIC FLUTE | MOZARTJEREMIE RHORER

ARMIDA | SALIERICHRISTOPHE ROUSSET

IL RITORNO DI ULISSE IN PATRIA | MONTEVERDISTEPHANE FUGET

OPERA PASTICCIO TELL ME THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE | HANDEL, VIVALDI...

WILLIAM CHRISTIE

IL TRIONFO DEL TEMPO E DEL DISINGANNO | HANDELOTTAVIO DANTONE

MAGNIFICAT | BACHLEONARDO GARCIA ALARCON

L’OLIMPIADE | VIVALDIJEAN-CHRISTOPHE SPINOSI

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Operas & Oratorios

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W. A. MOZART 1756 - 1791

Die Zauberflöte(The magic Flute)Singspiel in german in 2 acts, created the 30

thseptember 1791 in Vienna.

Libretto by Emanuel Schikaneder.

LYON SPIRITO CHOIRORCHESTRA LE CERCLE DE L’HARMONIEConductor : JEREMIE RHORER

Tamino Julian Prégardien, tenor

Pamina Mari Eriksmoen, soprano

The Queen of Night Sarah Traubel, soprano

Papageno Andreas Wolf, baritone

Papagena Elena Galitskaya, soprano

Sarastro Jan Martinik, bass

Monostatos Maxime Melnik, tenor

Three Ladies Norma Nahoun, Katja Stuber, sopranos, Valentina Stadler, mezzo-soprano

Three Boys Tölzer Knabenchor, 2 sopranos, 1 alto

The Orator Guilhem Worms, baritone-bass

New production on period instruments. Co-production Bremen’s Festival (Germany)

After having conducted, Idomeneo, The Marriage of Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, withthe phenomenal success that we know, Jérémie Rhorer conducts, in Beaune, The MagicFlute. The most popular and marvelous opera written by Mozart, the unrivalled magician. Theopera is based on a masterful libretto of Mozart’s friend Schikaneder, librettist but also initiatorof the role of Papageno. Created two months before his death, the Magic Flute is a magicalfairy tale dealing with the elevation by wisdom, love and goodness of the human being to ahigher morality corresponding to the ideas of the Age of Enlightenment, the Aufklärung ofrationalism. Since the beginning “The Magic Flute” was a real success. At the moment Mozartleaves one world to enter another: the music of the Magic Flute marks the beginning of the19th century.

> Friday 10th july - 9 p.m . Cour des Hospices** In case of adverse weather conditions, withdraw to the Basilique Notre-Dame

Cycle Mozart ’s operas on period instruments

O P E R Ain concert

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ANTONIO SALIERI 1750 - 1825

ArmidaDramma per musica in 3 acts, created the 2nd June 1771 in ViennaLibretto by Marco Coltellini, according to «La Gerusalemme liberatae» of Tasso

ORCHESTRA LES TALENS LYRIQUESConductor : CHRISTOPHE ROUSSET

Armida Lenneke Ruiten, sopranoIsmene Teresa Iervolino, sopranoRinaldo Vannina Santoni, sopranoUbaldo Ashley Riches, baritone

Recreation in world premiere . Recording Aparté.

Christophe Rousset and his Talens Lyriques continue their exploration and the rediscoveryof the work of Antonio Salieri, this time with Armida. This composer, contemporary ofMozart, thus finds a place more in line with his genius. Based on a libretto by MarcoColtellini, who also worked with Gluck, this drama set to music is inspired by the epic poemof the liberated Jerusalem of Tasso. Salieri associated the topic with the musical charactersof French operas and Italian operas: he works successfully with the melodic richness «àl’italienne» while putting it in the dramatic context of the French lyric tragedy. Like the«music dramas» characteristic of the eighteenth century, Armida is in three acts. But thedramatic structure is built around four characters and the acts are much shorter thanpreviously. The ouverture of the opera follows the precepts of Gluck and his librettistCalzabigi in the preface of Alceste (published two years earlier). It announces the dramaand facilitates action: by her enchantments, the magician Armida has already attracted anddetained many knights captivated by her beauty, when the Christian hero Rinaldo arrives...

> Saturday 11th July - 9 p.m. Cour des Hospices** In case of adverse weather conditions, withdraw to the Basilique Notre-Dame

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Recreation in World Premiere

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CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI 1567 - 1643

Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in PatriaDramma per musica in 1 prologue et 3 acts, created in Teatro San Cassiano in February 1641 at Venice.Libretto by G. Badoardo

ORCHESTRA LES EPOPEESConductor : STEPHANE FUGET

Ulisse Valerio Contaldo, tenorPenelope Anthéa Pichanick, mezzo-sopranoTelemaco, Giove Maxime Melnik, tenorMinerva, Fortuna Ayako Yukawa, mezzo-sopranoIro Alberto Allegrezza, tenorGiunone, Amore Marie Perbost, sopranoAntinoo, Nettuno, Tempo Luigi De Donato, bassMelanto, Ericlea Ambroisine Bré, mezzoEumete Cyril Auvity, tenorL’Umana Fragilita, Pisandro Carlo Vistoli, countertenorEurimaco Pierre-Antoine Chaumien, tenorAnfinomo Fabien Hyon, tenor

New production

With The Return of Ulysses, we open a trilogy of Monteverdi’s operas led by a new guestconductor, Stéphane Fuget, one of his most eminent performers. The libretto, based on thelatest songs of Homer’s Odyssey, tells the story of Ulysse who finally returns to Ithaca.Monteverdi, at the peak of his art, composes for this Ulysses two of the most grandiosescenes of dramatic literature: in act 1 Penelope’s lamentation about the endless waiting forUlysses’ return («Torna, torna, deh torna, deh torna Ulisse», a melodic chorus whosepoignant chromaticism is deeply expressive), the famous monologue of Ulysses groundedon the beach of Ithaca («Mi lasciate in questa riva aperta ... misero abbandonato»),expressing with violent harmonies fear, doubt and anguish in a stunning way and theemotional final duo ( «Sospirato mio sole»).

> Saturday 18th July - 9 p.m. Cour des Hospices** In case of adverse weather conditions, withdraw to the Basilique Notre-Dame

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Monteverdi ’s cycle operas

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G. F HANDEL A. VIVALDI J.P RAMEAU W. A MOZART

Pasticcio «Tell me the Truth about Love»«Operas arias of Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, Mozart...»

Original libretto by Ian Burton and Robert Carsen

LES ARTS FLORISSANTSConductor : WILLIAM CHRISTIE

Léa Desandre, mezzo-sopranoJakub Jozef Orlinski, countertenor

Two artists today deeply affect all lovers of baroque: Lea Desandre and Jakub JózefOrlinski: beauty of timbre, virtuosity, charisma, depth and finesse – the two rising stars ofthe opera seem to have been received all gifts! They will sing together for the first time withthe Arts Florissants, in a pasticcio programme, similar to the ones enjoyed by the public inthe baroque period: a wonderful patchwork of musical treasures selected from the finestpages in the repertoire of European music of the 17th and 18th century, from the mosttender to the most virtuoso, admirably interpreted by William Christie and these twomagnificent singers directed by Robert Carsen. Transported to an Arcadian idylliccountryside, our two modern heroes will experience a baroque “love story”…

> Friday 24th July - 9 p.m. Basilique Notre-Dame

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Creation

P A S T I C C I O

G. F HANDEL 1685 - 1759

Il Trionfo del Tempo e del DisingannoMoral Oratorio in 2 parts, created in Roma in 1707. Libretto by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilij

ORCHESTRA ACCADEMIA BIZANTINAConductor : OTTAVIO DANTONE

Belleza Ana Maria Labin, sopranoPiacere Emmanuelle de Negri, sopranoDisinganno Delphine Galou, altoTempo Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, tenor

New production

Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno has a singular place in the history of what has become agenre in itself: the Haendelian oratorio, of which it is both alpha and omega. First oratorio of ayoung virtuoso of 22 years. The Beauty (Bellezza) who swore fidelity to Pleasure (Piacere), isreminded by Time (Tempo) and by Disillusionment, or rather the «Non-illusion», that is to saythe Truth (Disinganno). This oratorio reveals the extraordinary stylistic skills of a freshlyimported musician. First of all the vocal virtuosity, especially in the arias of Beauty andPleasure and the duo that brings them together. Orchestral virtuosity in the air of Pleasure,Come nembo che fugge, and in the swirling quartet, Voglio Tempo. And finally the virtuosity ofwriting, until the perfection of the quartet, one of the most prodigious ensembles of his time,exhilarating and whirling like a waltz. The aria which follows, rises perhaps still higher by theforce of a total simplicity; it has barely been changed and will become Rinaldo’s first Londonopera, one of the composer’s most famous works under the title Lascia ch’io pianga.

> Saturday 25th July - 9 p.m. Basilique Notre-Dame

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Cycle Handel

O R A TO R I Oin concert

J. S BACH 1685 - 1750

Magnificat BWV 243 in D majorComposed between 1728 and 1731 for the Feast of the Visitation of the Virgin

NAMUR CHOIRORCHESTRA CAPPELLA MEDITERRANEAConductor : LEONARO GARCIA ALARCON

Soprano Mariana FloresCountertenor Christopher LowreyTenor Valerio ContaldoBass Christian Immler

The Magnificat in its final form has become one of Bach’s most famous sacred works. Itopens and ends with two powerful choral movements between which the vocal andinstrumental soloists interact according to constantly varied formulas of a confusingabundance of invention. The Cantor shows its sense of the image, to align the musicalexpression with the symbols of the libretto. Among the most original ideas, we highlight thechoir singing on the words «omnes generationes» to evoke the multitude of humans acrossgenerations, the duet subtly balanced for alto and tenor with flutes in «Et misericordia», theimpressive choral fugue of «Fecit potentiam» that expresses the power of the Lord, thelimpid trio for 3 sopranos in «Suscepit Israel» and the first choir’s return to the topic for thefinal «Gloria Patri». Beyond these brilliant ideas, this festive work confirms Bach’s never-denied affection for the character of the Mother of Christ.

> Sunday 26th July - 9 p.m. Basilique Notre-Dame

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Cycle Bach

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ANTONIO VIVALDI 1678 - 1741

L’OlimpiadeDramma per musica in 3 acts, created at Venice in 1734. Libretto by Pietro Metastasio.

ENSEMBLE MATHEUSConductor : JEAN-CHRISTOPHE SPINOSI

Licida Carlo Vistoli, countertenorMegacle Chiara Skerath, sopranoAminta Ana Maria Labin, sopranoArgene Benedetta Mazzucato, sopranoAristea Ambroisine Bré, mezzo-sopranoClistene Riccardo Novaro, baritoneAlcandro Jean-Jacques l’Anthoën, baritone-bass

New production

Jean-Christohe Spinosi continues with Vivaldi, a composer he had already beautifullyperformed in Orlando Furioso or Finda Ninfa. He wanted to conduct L’Olimpiade, one of themost beautiful compositions of the Priest Roux, in which the constantly renewed musicalbenefits from the great variety of dramatic situations. The arias linked to the affetti of thedifferent characters are superb, beautifully set to music in a melodic style extremely richand full of colors.The plot is located near the city of Olympia, Greece. Clistene, king ofSicyone promises his daughter, Aristea, in marriage to the winner of the Olympic Games.The Cretan prince Licida, who is in love with Aristea, asks his best friend, the athleteMegacle, to compete in his name, sure of his victory. Loved in secret by Aristea, Megacleignores the price of the contest, accepts and wins the games. Sacrificing his love, theyoung hero tells the subterfuge to Aristea and decides to leave her forever. After manydramatic twists, Licida is forgiven and Aristea marries Megacle.

> Saturday 1st August - 9 p.m. Cour des Hospices** In case of adverse weather conditions, withdraw to the Basilique Notre-Dame

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Cycle Vivaldi

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SyMPHONIES 3 & 5 | BEETHOVENJEREMIE RHORER

COMPLETE 6 MOTETS | BACHVALENTIN TOURNET

RECITAL MARI ERIKSMOEN | HANDEL, MOZARTANTOINE PALLOC

RECITAL CHIARA SKERATH | MOZART, GLUCKANTOINE PALLOC

RECITAL ANDREAS SCHOLL | NEAPOLITANS CANTATASDOROTHEE OBERLINGER

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Concerts & Recitals

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LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN 1770-1827

Symphony No. 3 «Eroïca»In B flat major, opus 55, created the 7th April 1805 in Theater an der Wien at Vienna

Symphony No. 5en C minor, opus 67, created the 22th December 1808 in Theater an der Wien at Vienna

ORCHESTRA LE CERCLE DE L’HARMONIEConductor : JEREMIE RHORER

New production on period instruments . 250th Beethoven’s birthday

After the sensational 9th Symphony last summer, Jérémie Rhorer continues his Beethovencycle, with two new symphonies. Since 2006 his orchestra, the Cercle de l’Harmonie, foundedin 2005, has become one of the best orchestras performing on period instruments. Dedicated toBonaparte, presumed «hero» of the French Revolution, the Symphony No. 3, called «Eroica»,revisits sensitively the heroic and martial style that had invaded many European symphoniesduring the years 1790-1815. Praised in 1808 by the writer E.T.A. Hoffmann as «one of the mostmemorable works of our time”. Over the four movements, it is a real symphonic volcano thatexplodes on stage: a monument of power and fervor that we cannot escape from unscathed.

> Friday 17th July - 9 p.m . Cour des Hospices** In case of adverse weather conditions, withdraw to the Basilique Notre-Dame

Romantic Cycle on period instruments

S y M P H O N I C A N D L y R I C A L C O N C E R T

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J. S BACH 1685 - 1750

Complete 6 Motets BWV 225-230Composed between 1723 and 1736 in Leipzig

Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied BWV 225Der Geist hilft BWV 226Jesu meine Freude, BWV 227Fürchte dich nicht BWV 228Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229Lobet den Herrn BWV 230

CHOIR & ORCH. LA CHAPELLE HARMONIQUEConductor : VALENTIN TOURNET

Valentin Tournet and La Chapelle Harmonique in residence.

After he brilliantly conducted Les Indes galantes last summer, the 24 year old ValentinTournet comes back to Beaune with his musical ensemble, La Chapelle harmonique, toperform the complete 6 Bach Motets, in German. Composed for the funeral ceremonies ofhigh dignitaries, these motets are considered as Bach’s most completed works and aclimax in Western sacred music. Thus the famous masterpieces – Jesu meine Freude andKomm, Jesu, Komm – show a perfect balance in celebrating man’s farewell to his body andto the world. They thoroughly lead to an astonishing and moving performance.

> Friday 31th July - 9 p.m. Basilique Notre-Dame

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Cycle Bach

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G. F HANDEL 1685 - 1759 W.A MOZART 1756 - 1791

Recital Mari Eriksmoen, soprano«Great operas arias » of Handel & Mozart

ANTOINE PALLOC, piano

Mari Eriksmoen, a wonderful Norwegian soprano, performs in the most prestigious operahouses in the world: Salzburg, Vienna, Glyndebourne, Berlin, Munich, La Scala in Milan...with the most famous orchestras and conductors including Rattle, Baremboim... inemblematic roles like Pamina, Blonde, Sophie or Arabella. She receives laudatory reviews:«Mari Eriksmoen is the perfect Pamina combining undeniable charm and grace with an idealsoprano voice». To our greatest delight, she interprets famous opera arias from Haendelsuch as: «Da tempeste» in Giulio Cesare, «E gelosia» in Serse or «Lascia chi’o pianga» inRinaldo and Mozart such as: «Padre, germani , addio» in Idomeneo,“«Per pieta» in Così fantutte, «Al destin che la minaccia» in Mitridate or «Deh, vieni, non tardar» in Nozze di Figaro.For the festival’s opening we have the pleasure to see her in the role of Pamina in Mozart’s«The Magic Flute» conducted by Jérémie Rhorer.

> Sunday 12th July - 9 p. m. Hospices Salle des Pôvres

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Great Voices’s Recital

R E C I T A L

W.A MOZART 1756 - 1791 C.W GLUCK 1714 - 1787

Recital Chiara Skerath, soprano«Great operas arias» of Mozart, Gluck...

ANTOINE PALLOC, piano

Born of a Belgian father and an Italian Swiss mother, the young soprano Chiara Skerath ispraised for «her brilliant technique», «her velvety timbre « and «her commitment». «Hervocal agility is coupled with a talent as an actress» «which would be nothing without herexceptional singing skills». She has since been awarded numerous prizes including theAudience Prize at prestigious Queen Elisabeth Competition or the Grand Prix de DuoChant-Piano at the International Nadia et Lili Boulanger Competition. Chiara Skerath hassung many roles of Mozart’s operas such as Despina, Zerlina, Servilia, Cinna, Sifare orPamina. We are now greatly looking forward to her recital that she will focus on arias ofMozart and Gluck, with some arias of Hasse and Haydn. She will perform Mozart’s: «Achich fühl’s» (The Magic Flute), «Giunse alfin il momento ... deh Vieni» (Le Nozze di Figaro),«Lungi da te, mio bene» (Mitridate) or «S’altro che lagrime” (La clemenza di Tito); andGluck’s: «Se mai sensi spirarti sul volto», «Che fiero momento» or «Nocchier che inmezzo all’onde» (Orfeo e Euridice). We also have the great pleasure to see her in the roleof Megacle in the Vivaldi’s opera L’Olimpiade conducted by Jean-Christophe Spinosi onthe last weekend of the festival.

> Sunday 19th July - 9 p.m. Hospices Salle des Pôvres

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Great Voices’s Recital

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Récital Andreas Scholl, countertenor«Neapolitan arias and cantatas from 17th& 18th centuries»

ENSEMBLE 1700Flute and Conductor : DOROTHEE OBERLINGER

To close the 38th edition of the Festival, Andreas Scholl – one of its favourite and faithfulcountertenor – comes with an unusual and exclusive program based on Neapolitancantatas and arias of the XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries. He will be accompanied byEnsemble 1700 founded and directed by the virtuoso flute player, Dorothee Oberlinger.They will take us in the footsteps of young Handel, who travelled in Italy from 1706 to1710 and who discovered the vocal inventiveness of Scarlatti, of Leo and of Porpora,Farinelli’s master. Handel composed overthere an impressive number of masterpiecesdevoted to the musical capitals that were Florence, Roma, Venice and Napoli. Among thecantatas Andreas Scholl will sing in Beaune, let’s mention « Mi Palpita il Cor » by Handel,that the composer probably wrote in Napoli. This cantata became one of his most popular;its striking repeated notes are meant to figure the singer’s heartbeat. The aria «Torcere ilcorso all'onde», from Porpora’s Il Trionfo di Camilla and written for the famous castratoSenesino, is one of those exhilarating tunes that last for long once you’ve heard it.

> Sunday 2nd August - 9 p.m . Basilique Notre-Dame

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Récitals des Grandes Voix

R E C I T A L

Gourmet Buffets & Tastingsof famous wine from Hospices

Before the concerts Chambre du Roy of Hospices

Dates : the 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 , 31 July et 1st August at 19h to 20h30

INFORMATIONS & BOOKING

> Buffet’s price : 200 € > real cost cost after fiscal reduction : 68 € for a particular (-66%)or 80 € for a company (-60%), in the limite of 5 for 1000 of the revenue, valid in allcountries of the CE and Switzerland

> By E-mail : festival.beaune@orange.fr> By phone : +33 (0)3 80 22 97 20>By post : Festival d’Opéra Baroque , Place de la Halle BP 60071 / 21200 Beaune Cedex

We guest you every Friday and Saturday in King’s Chamber of the Hospices, exclusivelyopen to Festival’s public for share before concert a gourmet buffet with savouring ofHospices de Beaune’s famous wines. In a convivial atmosphere, Edouard Mignot,talentued starred chef of the restaurant Edem in Chassane, propose to you some ofcourses enhanced by exceptional wines. Corton, Meursaut, Volnay or Pommard, suchare the sumptuous designations offered to the savouring, commentated by the manager ofthe Hospices’s prestigious domain. The totality of takings is for the support and promotionof the young talents, conductors, ensembles and singers in residence. So, yourparticipation benefit of a fiscal reduction of 66% or 60%.

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Courtyard of Hospices de Beaune

Since 1983 Anne Blanchard, founderand artistic director of the Beaune InternationalBaroque Music Festival, has developed: apioneering artistic policy by rediscoveringBaroque opera on period instruments focusedon high quality productions, the reconstructionand interpretation of unpublished worksaccording to the latest musicological research;a conductor policy inviting most renownedconductors as well as the young generation; apolicy to identify new vocal talents byorganizing auditions in France and Europe; aproduction and coproduction policy by settingup a European broadcast network with otherfestivals and opera houses, a recording policyof its events with over 20 albums coproducedwith famous record companies.

The Beaune International BaroqueMusic Festival is regarded within the Europeanlyric festival movement as the referenceBaroque Festival (“the Salzburg of Baroquemusic” according to Diapason magazine). Ithas taken part in the “Baroque movementrevolution” by broadcasting Baroque music to anew audience in France and Europe. Since itsinception the Festival has presented over 100baroque operas (mis en espace and concertversion), over 30 of them revivals and world,European or French premieres; over 80oratorio and sacred music concerts, including 5revivals or premieres; over 40 recitals, over 10symphonic concerts and an Academy of VocalBaroque.

By focusing on European BaroqueOpera, and Italian opera seria dating formthe17th and 18th century, the Festival hashighly participated in the revival of Handel’soperas and oratorios in France, revealing to thepublic some missing works in the history ofmusic, and especially the following operas:Handel: Flavio (1990, Dir. René Jacobs),Scipione (1993, Dir. Christophe Rousset), Poro(1994, Dir. Fabio Biondi), Riccardo Primo(1995, Dir. Christophe Rousset), Admeto(1998, Dir. Christophe Rousset, Partenope(2005, Dir. Antonio Florio), Alessandro (2010,Dir. Eduardo Lopez-Banzo), Agrippina (2012,Dir. Federico Maria Sardelli); Jommelli: ArmidaAbbandonata (1994, Dir. Christophe Rousset);Porpora: Arianna in Nasso (1995, Dir. RinaldoAlessandrini), Semiramide (2011, Dir. StefanoMontanari); Traetta: Antigona (1997, Dir.Christophe Rousset); Cavalli: I Strali d’Amore

(2001, Dir. Gabriel Garrido); Conti: DonQuichotte (2005, Dir. René Jacobs); Vivaldi: LaSenna Festeggiante (2001), L’Olimpiade(2002), Dir. Rinaldo Alessandrini, Tito Manlio(2006, Dir. Ottavio Dantone), Orlando Furioso(2011, Dir. Jean-Christophe Spinosi), Orlandoversion 1714 (2012, Dir. Federico MariaSardelli), L’Incoronazione di Dario (2013, Dir.Ottavio Dantone); Pergolèse: L’Olimpiade(2003), Il Flaminio (2004), Adriano in Siria(2008), Dir. Ottavio Dantone, Septem Verba(2012, Dir. René Jacobs). The Festival helpedredescovering Spanish Baroque operas, highlyinfluenced by the Italian opera seria, like LosElementos (1997) and Acis y Galatea (1999)composed by Literes, conducted by EduardoLopez Banzo; but also rarely performed Frenchlyric tragedies: Campra: l’Europe Galante(1993, Dir. Marc Minkowski); Desmarest:Didon (1999, Dir. Christophe Rousset); Lully:Acis et Galatée (1996 Dir. Marc Minkowski),Persée (2001, Dir. Christophe Rousset),Bellérophon (2010, Dir. Christophe Rousset),Phaëton (2012, Dir. Christophe Rousset),Amadis (2013, Dir. Christophe Rousset);Rameau: Hippolyte et Aricie (1997, Dir. MarcMinkowski and 1757 version in 2012, Dir.Raphaël Pichon), Zoroastre(1998, Dir. WilliamChristie), Pygmalion (2010, Dir. WilliamChristie), Dardanus 1744 version (2011, Dir.Raphaël Pichon); Destouches: Callirhoé(2005) and Marin Marais: Sémélé (2006)conducted by Hervé Niquet.

In addition to these opera revivals, theFestival has entirely performed better knownoperas like: Handel: Giulio Cesare conductedby Réné Jacobs (1991), Orlando (1996),Xerses (1997), Rodelinda (2006) conducted byPaul McCreesh; Rinaldo (1996), Tamerlano(2000) conducted by Christophe Rousset,Ariodante (2009) conducted by Federico MariaSardelli, Orlando (2013 dir. René Jacobs) orPurcell: The Fairy Queen (1993), Le Roi Arthur(1994), conducted by Paul McCreesh.

Thanks to a privileged collaborationsince 1985 between the Festival and WilliamChristie and his Arts Florissants somemasterworks have been performed, like:Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas together withCharpentier’s Actéon (1988), Beethoven’sMissa Solemnis (1995), Handel’s Acis andGalatea (1996), Alcina (1999, with OpéraNational Garnier), L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il

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Le Festival Internationald’Opéra Baroque & Romantique de Beaune

Short History of Beaune Festival

Moderato(2001) and Hercules (2004, with theAix-en-Provence Festival), Monteverdi’sVespro della Beata Vergine of 1610 (1997)and Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria (2000),Rameau’s Zoroastre (1998), and Haydn’soratorios The Seasons (2003) or The Creation(2007)...

The Festival also encourages theperformance of operas by Mozart and Gluckon period instruments: especially Mozart’s:Zaïde (1996), Die Entführung aus dem Serail(1997) conducted by Christoph Spering, Cosifan tutte (2000, Dir. René Jacobs), The MagicFlute, Don Giovanni (2005 and 2006, Dir.Sigiswald Kuijken), Idomeneo, The Marriageof Figaro and Cosi fan tutte (2006, 2007 and2008 Dir. Jérémie Rhorer); Gluck’s: Iphigénieen Tauride (2006) and Orphée and Eurydice(2008) conducted respectively by MarcMinkowski and Jérémie Rhorer, as well asOrfeo ed Euridice in 2013 conducted byFederico Maria Sardelli.

On Anne Blanchard’s instigation, theFestival has strongly contributed to thepromotion and the renown of young talentedconductors (Christophe Rousset, Paul McCreesh, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Fabio Biondi,Ottavio Dantone, Emmanuelle Haïm, JérémieRhorer, Raphaël Pichon, ...) by offering themin a 3-year-residency program the possibilityto conduct their first operas. Thus, RinaldoAlessandrini invited to conduct Monteverdi’sopera trilogy in Beaune since 2005, has beenconducted the same trilogy at the Scala inMilan since 2009; Jérémie Rhorer and hisorchestra Le Cercle de l’Harmonie wereinvited to conduct their first operas Idomeneo(2006 and 2011) and The Marriage of Figaro(2007) in Beaune as well as at Vienna’sStaatsoper in 2011. He has conducted thesame opera in 2009 in Bologna and Haydn’sopera L’Infedelta delusa in 2008 at the Aix-en-Provence Festival; Paul McCreesh invited toconduct a cycle of Handel’s and Purcell’soperas since 1993 in Beaune, has conductedHandel’s Tamerlano at the Teatro Real inMadrid together with some of the soloistsdiscovered by Anne Blanchard (AnnHallenberg and Renata Pokupic), and OttavioDantone has conducted Handel’s Rinaldo inBeaune and the Scala in Milan in 2009.The Festival has also revealed numerousyoung vocals singing nowadays in the mostwell-known operas in Europe, especially: SaraMingardo, Laura Polverelli, Andreas Scholl,Brian Asawa, Annick Massis, Véronique

Gens, Raffaella Milanesi, Renata Pokupic,Ann Hallenberg, Teodora Gheorghiu,Lawrence Zazzo, David DQ Lee, ChristopheDumaux, Sandrine Piau, Cyril Auvity, GaëlleArquez, Marita Solberg, Andreas Wolf,Delphine Galou, Max Emmanuel Cencic,Malin Hartelius,...

By developing s imultaneously animportant album collection (more than 20CDs) in collaboration with the best knownFrench and European record labels(especially Handel’s Jules César conductedby René Jacobs at Harmonia Mundi, qualifiedas “album of the century” by The Times), theFestival actively contributes to the memory ofthe French and European Baroque musicheritage.

Thanks to Radio France Musique inBeaune taping numerous concerts over thelast 30 years and their broadcast onEuroradio, either directly or on replay, millionsof European music lovers have been able toparticipate in great music moments of purebeauty.

Finally, thanks to national andinternational media (newspaper, radio and TVstations) informing about the eventsprogrammed by Anne Blanchard, the Festivalhighly participates in the promotion ofBaroque music in France and the wholeworld. Among the newspapers: Le Monde, LeFigaro, Libération, Télérama, FigaroMagazine, Figaro Madame, L'Express, LePoint, Le Nouvel Observateur, ValeursActuelles... De Standaart, Le Soir deBruxelles, La Libre Belgique, (Belgium), LaTribune de Genève, Le Temps (Switzerland),Opera News (USA), Concerto Magazine,Orfeus (Germany), "Il Sole 24 Ore", LaRepublica, La Musica (Italy), El Mundo, ElPaïs, ABC (Spain)... among radio and TVstations: France Musique, France Infos,France Culture, France Inter, Europe 1, RTL,France Télévisions, TF1, Arte, Mezzo, RadioTélévision Belgium, WDR, NDR Germany,RAI Italy, BBC Great Britain, Swiss RomandieRadio and TV, ORF Austria, NHK Japan,Canadian Radio and TV, Australian Radio andTV...

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Clocher roman de la Basilique Notre-Dame de Beaune XIIe siècle, avec vue sur les vignes. DR

G. F HAENDEL 1685 - 1759

Dixit DominusMotet, créé à Rome en 1707. Texte duPsaume 110

GABRIELI CONSORT ANDPLAYERSDirection musicale :PAUL McCREESH

Soprano Charlotte BeamentSoprano MaryBeavanMezzo-soprano AnnHarveyTénorThomas WalkerBasse DavidStout

Le Dixit Dominus est par sonimportance, son inspiration, sonefficacité expressive le plus fameuxdes motets que Haendel composalors de son séjour à Rome. Composéen 1707, il prouve la stupéfiantecapacité d’assimilation du style italienpar Haendel dont il reprendra plustard des éléments dans ses oratoriosanglais. Haendel a construit sa partitionsur des motifs grégoriens utilisant le plain-chant en cantus firmus commme unchoral luthérien : admirable démonstrationde synthèse stylistique. En outre,l’allégresse polyphonique comme lesmultiples passages concertants, oùinterviennent les cinq solistes, bâtissentun ouvrage fastueux. Colorés etexultants, raffinés et démonstratifs, lesneufs mouvements du Dixit Dominusportent en eux tout le devenir de l’arthaendélien. Les fulgurances des premierset derniers choeurs n’annoncent-elles pasles passages choraux monumentauxd’Israël en Egypte ou du Messie ?Comment résister à la verve irrésistible del’écriture, à l’ardente énergie rythmique età la somptuosité des choeurs ?

coproduction Gabrieli Consort &Players

> Samedi 8 juillet - 21 h .

Basilique Notre-Dame

Its importance, its inspiration andexpressive effectiveness make DixitDominus to be considered as the mostfamous motet composed by Handelduring his stay in Rome. Composed in1707 it reveals Handel’s stunningcapacity to absorb the Italian style, whichhe reuses later for his English oratorios.Vivid and exultant, elegant anddemonstrative, the nine movements ofDixit Dominus contain Handel’s futurework. The explosive opening and endingchoirs don’t they sound like themonumental choirs in Israël en Egypte orMessie? How can you resist theirresistible verve of the writing, therhythmic energyand the

sumptuous choirs?

HospicesBeaune, capitale des fameux vins de Bourgogne, est unevieille cité d'Art et d'Histoire. Elle fut l'une des capitales desducs de Bourgogne dont le duché s'étendit jusqu'aux Pays-Bas. L'Hôtel-Dieu de Beaune, plus connu sous le nomd'Hospices de Beaune, fut fondé en 1443 par Nicolas Rolin,chancelier des ducs, pour servir d'hôpital et d'hospice.Exceptionnel témoin de l'art franco-flamand du XVe siècle

avec son célèbre toit aux tuiles coloréeset vernissées, il renferme, entreautres chefs-d'oeuvre,le polyptyque de Van der Weydendu XVe siècle.

Basilique

L'une des plusbelles églises dela région où l'on

retrouve toutel'histoire de

l'architecture religieuse

bourguignonnedu XIIe au XVe siècle, dans un ensemble où domine le style

roman. Sa construction commença vers 1120. On remarquerale magnifique cloître roman attenant à la basilique ainsi que le

décor sculpté des chapiteaux représentant des animauxmusiciens (chèvre jouant de la harpe, lion hippocéphale tenant

une cloche et une flûte), l'Arche de Noé, les cueilleurs defruits... Dans le choeur on peut admirer de superbes

tapisseries flamandes du XVe siècle évoquant en dix-septtableaux les principaux épisodes de la vie de la Vierge.

LA BASILIqUE COLLÉGIALE NOTRE-DAME (xIIe/xVIe)

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LES HOSPICES DE BEAUNE (xVe SIèCLE)