Festival International d'Opéra Baroque & Romantique de Beaune

Beaune, the Haendelian Festival par excellence with more than 30 operas and oratorios programmed since its creation, could not offer less than two operas and an oratorio by the very dear Saxon: Partenope, Giulio Cesare and Solomon, entrusted respectively to the masters William Christie, Ottavio Dantone and Leonardo Garcia Alarcon. In the tradition of the festival, which has produced many world premieres, Carlo Pallavicino's opera Le Amazzoni nell'Isole fortunate is being recreated in its French premiere, under the expert guidance of Christophe Rousset. We share with Rinaldo Alessandrini and Stéphane Fuget the same fascination for Monteverdi's music and the Monteverdian ideal where "everything is theatre: theatre made of humanity, aspiration to the sublime and joyful resolution of life's sadnesses through love, the healing power of song" by inviting them to conduct respectively the masterpieces The Fight of Tancredo and Clorinda and the Orfeo.

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