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classical music, opera, theatre

Rameau: Les Boréades (1763) - concert performance

  • 21 September 2023, Thursday
  • 7 pm — 10:30 pm
  • one interval
  • Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall

Conductor:

György Vashegyi

Cast:

Alphise, queen of Bactria
Sabine Devieilhe
Abaris, son of Apollon
Reinoud Van Mechelen
Calisis, Boread prince
Benedikt Kristjánsson
Borilée, Boread prince
Philippe Estèphe
Adamas / Apollon
Tassis Christoyannis
Boréas
Thomas Dolié
Sémire / L'Amour / Polymnie / Nymph
Gwendoline Blondeel

Featuring:

Orfeo Orchestra (on period instruments)
Purcell Choir
  • Rameau: Les Boréades - tragédie lyrique in five acts

The plot of Les Boréades was inspired by the story of the love between the nymph Orithyia and Boreas from Greco-Roman mythology: a relationship that bore the two Boreads. Rameau's tragedy contains everything that can possibly add another twist to the plot of a five-act Baroque opera: a secret, seduction, a disguise, love, an enchanted arrow, prophecy, revenge, a storm, an earthquake, a suicide attempt, deus ex machina - and finally, the happy ending. Performing the work will be an international cast accompanied by the Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra, with György Vashegyi on the podium.

Based on the dramatic power of its interludes and the wonderful elements and spectacular mechanical techniques that are employed in it, it can be surmised that the libretto was written by Louis de Cahusac (1706-1759), just as the subject matter and the nature of the characters also point to the hand of this freemason playwright and librettist who collaborated with the composer in the creation of several other works. Dating from 1763, Les Boréades is the last of the five so-called tragédie ...lyriques that Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764) wrote and is also one of the composer's final works for the musical stage. The piece was rehearsed by the Paris Opera in 1763, but in the end it was never premiered during the composer's lifetime. Les Boréades was performed in concert in Paris on 1 October 1964, and on July 21, 1982 it was also staged in Aix-en-Provence under the baton of John Eliot Gardiner. Since then, top opera houses have added it to their programmes one after another. The cast for this performance, which features numerous international stars, includes several singers who have contributed more than once to the productions of the Purcell Choir and Orfeo Orchestra, founded three decades ago by György Vashegyi, a pivotal artist in the Hungarian school of historically informed music, and continuously led by him since then.

Collaborating partner: Centre de musique baroque de Versailles


Presented by: Haydneum - Hungarian Centre for Early Music

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