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Infos
Strasbourg
Opéra
Organized in partnership with the Jean Rodhain Chair and the Faculty of Catholic Theology at the University of Strasbourg.
Artists
Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre Lute Thomas Dunford
Presentation
Let the night last
Seventeenth-century French courtly songs and intermèdes
At the Sun King’s court, prominent musicians would gather to tell stories in song, some bucolic and contemplative, others more somber and dramatic. Mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre, accompanied by lutenist Thomas Dunford, recreates the intimate atmosphere of Grand Siècle soirées with Baroque works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Robert de Visée, Marin Marais, Michel Lambert and Honoré d’Amruys.