Name: Ariodante
Start: 2023-10-02T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-10-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Grand-Théâtre

Organization

Conductor

William Christie

Stage director

Nicolas Briançon

Costume designer

Michel Dussarrat

Lighting designer

Jean-Pascal Pracht

Singer

Countertenor

Léa Desandre

Ariodante

Contralto

Hugh Cutting

Polinesso

Tenor

Kresimir Spicer

Lurcanio

Moritz Kallenberg

Odoardo

Bass

Renato Dolcini

The King of Scotland

Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie

Opéra de Dijon

Grand Théâtre de Genève

Others

Les Arts Florissants

Video designer

Valéry Faidherbe

Soprano

Mélissa Petit

Ginevra

Sarah Gilford

Dalinda

Geneva

Switzerland

Grand-Théâtre

Paris

France

Philharmonie de Paris

Grande Salle Pierre Boulez

Ariodante Händel

Public

Private

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Since it was first published in 1516, there have been countless adaptations of this 16thcentury best-seller: Orlando furioso by the Tuscan Ludovico Ariosto. The influence it had on European culture made operas spring up all along its route, from Rinascimento Italy to Enlightenment England and the French Grand Siècle. Jacopo Peri, Francesca Caccini, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, André Campra, and many other composers never tired of using it as a subject: Antonio Vivaldi composed two Orlandos, Joseph Haydn did an Orlando paladino. George Frideric Handel alone composed three operas directly derived from this paradigm of the chivalric epic poem: Orlando, in 1733, Ariodante in January 1735 and just a few months later, in April, his Alcina, undoubtedly the best known of the three.

Just as Ariosto’s epic grew and mutated through time and space, Handel’s life was also a journey through cultures and epochs. Born in Halle in Saxony, this contemporary of Johann Sebastian Bach composed his first operas in Hamburg when he was barely twenty years old. Having learned all he could from his German peers, he took off for Italy, where he spent five years filling his suitcases with musical ideas before setting them down for almost the rest of his career in London, where he was also an opera impresario. This dramma per musica in three acts, an adaptation of Giacomo Antonio Perti’s 1708 opera Ginevra, Principessa di Scozia for which Antonio Salvi wrote the libretto, is based on Cantos IV, V and VI of Ariosto’s poem, about another amorous knight, but this time not Orlando. A spin-off, as it were, with characteristics imported from the Versailles opera-ballet, since the composer made sure there were opportunities for dancing in every act to please the London audience of the brand-new Covent Garden.

Although castrati were also in fashion at the time, since the revival of Baroque works in the 1970s their roles have been assigned to countertenors or mezzos. The young and fascinating mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre will be our desperate Ariodante for one evening, accompanied by a range of singers, many of them alumni of the Jardin des Voix, the famous factory of great baroque voices, all under the direction of one of the greatest masters of the baroque renaissance, William Christie, with his Orchestre des Arts Florissants. Nicolas Briançon stages this Ariodante with simplicity and sobriety to highlight all its dramatic power, its inner violence, its passion and compassion.

English

Ariodante by Händel, fim 05 okt 2023, Frá (2023/2023), Leikstýrt af Nicolas Briançon,, Hljómsveitarstjóri William Christie, Grand-Théâtre, Geneva, Switzerland

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