Following the government's decisions on coronavirus COVID-19, the performance of May 4 at the Auditorium of Radio France is only broadcast on France Musique radio.
Programme
Bernard de Bury (1720-1785)
L’Amour et la Folie
World premiere
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Le Retour d’Astrée
World premiere
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Les Sybarites
Unpublished version
This is the second Résidences Croisées joint residency project with the Les Surprises ensemble and the Sinfonia en Périgord festival. Three short operas by Rameau and Bury recreate court entertainment at the time of Madame de Pompadour, patron of the arts and chief mistress of Louis XV.
With Les Sybarites and Le Retour d’Astrée by Jean-Philippe Rameau, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas and his ensemble Les Surprises resurrect two short works composed as court entertainment by this musical genius. First performed in Fontainebleau in 1753, Les Sybarites appeared again in Paris four years later as an additional Act for the ballet Surprises de l’Amour. Le Retour d’Astrée served as a prologue for the ballet at its premiere at Madame de Pompadour’s Théâtre des Petits Appartements in 1748 to glorify Louis XV (le bien aimé) but was never performed again, surviving only in a single manuscript. To accompany these two little gems by Rameau, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas opted for a new performance of the prologue L’Amour et la folie by Bernard de Bury, a court musician known for his ‘Versailles style’ in the wake of Lully and Lalande. The score is published by the CMBV and Société Jean-Philippe Rameau and the talented cast is headed by Marie Perbost and David Witczak.
