Name: Leçons de ténèbres
Start: 2022-04-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-04-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Chapelle Royale

Organization

Soprano

Sophie Junker

Soprano I

Florie Valiquette

Direction d'orchestre

Stéphane Fuget

Opéra Royal de Versailles

Others

Leçons de ténèbres

Versailles

France

Chapelle Royale

Leçons de ténèbres Couperin

Public

Valide

Basse

Instrumentalist

Piano

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

Oboist

Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da Gambist

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

Compositeur

Mise en scène

Livret

Décors

Costumes

Chorégraphie

Lumières

Danse

Acteur

Direction de choeur

Video

Dramaturgie

Traduction

Répétiteur

Maquillage

En charge de la production

Coiffure

Autre

Stage Manager

Choeur

Orchestre

Poet

Coach vocal

Prof

Photographer

Diffusion

Illustrator

Writer

Writing and performance

Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

Orchestra Operations

Extra

Contre-ténor

Singer

Baryton

Baryton-basse

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Ténor

Parlé

Voix d'enfant

Rôle muet

Alto

Continuo

The Leçons de Ténèbres became in the middle of the 17th century the subject of increasingly popular musical compositions. Michel Lambert was the first in France to compose a cycle of it in 1662, quickly followed by Charpentier and Lalande. But the most famous – and the first to have regained the honors of the record and the general public today – are those of François Couperin, dated 1714.

At the end of the reign of Louis XIV, France is a land of piety, but also of Italianism in music, including religious music. Also the emotions composed by Couperin for his singers are so dramatic that one would think they come from the opera... Vocality and spirituality are combined with art, testifying to the refinement of the beautiful French song practiced both in salons and theaters than in places of worship. In fact, people crowded to listen, in the Parisian convents, to these divine voices intoning the Lessonsfor the days of Holy Week, faceless voices of young conventual recluses, voices from heaven… but often opera singers when the halls are closed in times of penance! Traditionally, the candles were extinguished as the Office of Darkness unfolded, ending in the darkness of the night...The three preserved lessons of François Couperin are written for Holy Wednesday, and represent one of the peaks of French sacred art from the beginning of the 18th century.

Stéphane Fuget conducts the young and sublime Florie Valiquette and Marie Perbost (escaped from who knows which convent…) for this concert particularly in phase with Versailles, which is also the subject of a recording for our discographic collection.

English

Leçons de ténèbres by Couperin, ven. 15 avr. 2022, Du (2022/2022), Chef d'orchestre Stéphane Fuget, Chapelle Royale, Versailles, France

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