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Madame Chrysanthème

G. Puccini, P. Mascagni, A. Messager, F. Boulanger

From chrysanthemums to butterflies, the geisha has always fascinated writers, poets and musicians. The great composer Giacomo Puccini was fascinated by Pierre Loti’s novel Madame Chrysanthème, and brought the unforgettable [...]

Divine poems of pain

G. B Pergolesi, J. S. Bach

Magicians in the time of the Sun King

Lully, Desmarets, Charpentier, Collasse, Rossi, Cavalli​

Paris, 1650. The regency of Anne of Austria was gradually ending, between the rebellion and the Thirty Years’ War. Cardinal Mazarin organized Peace in Europe through the signing of the [...]

Harmonia artificiosa

F. I. Biber, H. Schütz, Francesco Cavalli

Splendid and ambitious, the Harmonia artificiosa is a work that reveals all the talent of its composer and marks the rising virtuosity of the violin. A collection of seven sonatas [...]

Haendel and Nature

G.F Haendel

Silete Venti Naturalist Motet “Silete Venti” is a five-part motet for a soprano voice. It is probably inspired by Handel’s return to Italy in 1729. Recognized as one of the [...]

Nigra Sum

C. Monteverdi and B. Attahir

“Nigra Sum sed formosa” (I am black and I am beautiful) is a meeting between earthly and heavenly, gravity and elevation, past and present. Taken from the Song of Songs, [...]

Paris 1750, Fragments

J.-P. Rameau, P. Royer, J.-J. Cassanéa de Mondonville, C. W. Glück, J.-M. Leclair, P. Gaviniès, J. A. Hasse, A. VIvaldi

In Paris, at the dawn of the 18th century, the Concert spirituel was created by the oboist Anne Danican Philidor.During the Parisian musical evenings of the Concert spirituel in 1750, [...]

The Four Seasons

A. Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi’s Four Seasons are the first four concertos to open the collection of twelve violin concertos composed between 1723 and 1725 entitled Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (The confrontation [...]

Music for a while

H. Purcell, J. Playford, W. Shakespeare, J. Dryden

Feelings and torments, who could evoke them better than Henry Purcell?Passions and storms, who better to describe them than William Shakespeare? These two artists placed their genius at the service [...]

Suzanne’s Wedding

W. A. Mozart, P. Caron de Beaumarchais, A.-L. Baudron

Figaro wishes to marry Suzanne. Danger lurks around her. As much and perhaps more than her lover, the young woman uses her talent to defend her cause and that of [...]