Reinoud van Mechelen

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Rameau: Castor et Pollux
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Hervé Niquet presents in Paris his interpretation of Castor and Pollux, one of the most appreciated lyrical tragedies of the great baroque composer, in its version of 1754.
Dardanus
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Dardanus

Jan 01, 2015
Tragédie lyrique en cinq actes Version 19 novembre 1739 Académie Royale de musique. Paris Livret: Charles-Antoine Leclerc de La Bruère D'après Les Métamorphoses d'Ovide
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Thamos, roi d'Égypte
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Thamos, roi d'Égypte

Sep 16, 2018
En résidence à la Seine Musicale, vaisseau architectural posé sur l’île Seguin, à Boulogne-Billancourt, Laurence Equilbey et sa formation, l’Insula Orchestra, se plaisent à imaginer des formats novateurs de concerts. En 2018, la cheffe d'orchestre a choisi de présenter "Thamos, roi d’Égypte", une musique de scène de Mozart composée à la demande du baron franc-maçon Tobias Philipp von Gebler pour accompagner son drame héroïque. La pièce, qui préfigure "La flûte enchantée", se dévoile ici sous un jour inédit. Le metteur en scène Yannis Kokkos a ainsi convoqué une jeune génération d’artistes visuels pour élaborer un dispositif mêlant vidéos, dessins et animations en direct, jeux d’ombres et de lumières.
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Hippolyte et Aricie
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Hippolyte et Aricie

Mar 15, 2019
Staatsoper Berlin’s new production of Rameau’s tragédie lyrique, directed by Alletta Collins; featuring costumes, sets and lighting designed by Ólafur Eliasson; and musical direction by Simon Rattle, who makes his debut with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
Hippolyte et Aricie
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Hippolyte et Aricie

Nov 14, 2020
In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutionary work: Hippolyte et Aricie. With its inventiveness and musical richness, Rameau’s opera marks a break in the history of French music. A similarly revolutionary duo – Jeanne Candel and Raphaël Pichon – get to grips with this work for the Opéra Comique.
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Médée
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Médée

Apr 10, 2024
Possibly mythology’s most unfathomable character: Medea, the sorceress, betrayed by her husband Jason, takes revenge by offering the latter’s lover a poisoned dress and then killing her own children. Such a destiny, so often portrayed in the arts, could not but be embodied at the Opera. In 1693, Marc-Antoine Charpentier premiered his only “tragédie lyrique”, based on a libretto by Thomas Corneille, at the Académie royale de Musique – forerunner of the Paris Opera – in the presence of Louis XIV. Three centuries after its creation, this baroque score of great orchestral wealth returns for the first time to the stage of the Paris Opera, under the baton of William Christie. Renowned for his exceptionally articulate interpretations, director David McVicar transposes the action to the Second World War, thus reinforcing the heroine’s tragic character.