For two years Limoges, in partnership with the CMBV, focuses on French baroque music highlighted by the first ever stage performance of a long forgotten masterpiece, La Barre’s La Vénitienne.
Through 2020 and 2021 Limoges conservatoire is focusing on the baroque era. Students are introduced to the specific features of 17th and 18th century French music via a series of round tables and masterclasses run by CMBV staff and repertoire specialists. Against the background of the final years of Louis XIV, and iconic figures such as Campra, Destouches, Couperin and Marais, a series of exploratory and training sessions are held on baroque vocals, music, dance and scenography. In 2021 the project will culminate in a stage revival of a long forgotten French baroque work, La Barre’s La Vénitienne – a comic opera first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique in 1705, whose style and form reflect contemporary taste for Italian and particularly Venetian imagery as popularised by Campra with his Carnaval de Venise and Fêtes vénitiennes.
Programme
MASTERCLASSES & CONFERENCES
- 04 – 06 September 2020
Limoges regional conservatoire
Masterclass by Patrick Cohën-Akenine - 02 – 04 October 2020
Limoges regional conservatoire
Masterclass on Baroque Vocal Music by Benoît Dratwicki & Baroque Gesture by Deda Cristina Colonna - 16 – 18 October 2020
Limoges regional conservatoire
Masterclass by Patrick Cohën-Akenine and teachers from Versailles regional conservatoire - 11 – 13 December 2020
Limoges regional conservatoire
Masterclass on Baroque Dance by Gilles Poirier - 29 - 31 January 2021
Masterclass on Baroque Dance by Gilles Poirier ; Baroque Vocal Music by Benoît Dratwicki & Baroque Gesture by Deda Cristina Colonna - 26 – 28 February 2021
Limoges regional conservatoire
Masterclass on Baroque Dance & Staging by Gilles Poirier - 09 – 11 April 2021
Masterclass on Baroque Dance by Gilles Poirier ; Baroque Vocal Music by Benoît Dratwicki & Baroque Gesture by Deda Cristina Colonna - 11 & 12 May 2021
Limoges regional conservatoire
Conferences on La Vénitienne, and round table workshops
With Benoît Dratwicki, Thomas Leconte, Barbara Nestola & Julien Dubruque - 13 - 15 May 2021
Limoges regional conservatoire
Masterclass on Baroque Dance & Staging by Gilles Poirier ; Masterclass by Patrick Cohën-Akenine and teachers from Versailles regional conservatoire
STAGE PRODUCTION
La Vénitienne
18 September 2021
Limoges Opera, Limoges, France
MUSIC
Michel de la Barre (1675-1745)
LIBRETTO
Antoine Houdar de la Motte (1672-1731)
Comédie lyrique in a Prologue and three Acts
First performed on 26th May 1705 at the Académie Royale de Musique in Paris
Stage version
Running time 2 hrs, incl. intermission
With participation from students from Limoges regional conservatoire
Mireille Podeur, music director
