Name: Couperin : Leçons de Ténèbres
Start: 2023-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2023-04-05T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Chapelle Royale

Organization

Direction d'orchestre

Gaétan Jarry

Chanteur

Soprano

Adèle Carlier

Soprano II

Ana Quintans

Soprano 1

Soprano 2

Ana Vieira Leite

Soprano I

Opéra Royal de Versailles

Others

Couperin : Leçons de Ténèbres

Versailles

France

Chapelle Royale

Couperin : Leçons de Ténèbres: Leçons de ténèbres Couperin (+2 Mas)

Public

Leçons de ténèbres

Victoria, Christe resurgenti

Cantique Quatrième : Sur le Bonheur des Justes et le Malheur des Réprouvés

Valide

Accordionist

Instrument

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 Gambist

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Acteur

Autre

Choeur

Chorus Director

Chorégraphie

Coach vocal

Coiffure

Compositeur

Costumes

Danse

Diffusion

Direction de choeur

Dramaturgie

Décors

En charge de la production

Extra

Illustrator

Livret

Lumières

Maquillage

Mise en scène

Orchestra Operations

Orchestre

Photographer

Poet

Prof

Répétiteur

Stage Manager

Traduction

Video

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Mezzo-soprano

Ténor

Contralto

Baryton

Contre-ténor

Baryton-basse

Basse

Alto

Continuo

Rôle muet

Rôle parlant

Voix d'enfant

Presentation

In the mid-seventeenth century, the Leçons de Ténèbres became the subject of increasingly popular musical compositions. Michel Lambert was the first in France to compose a cycle in 1662, soon followed by Charpentier and Lalande. But the most famous - and the first to have been performed and recorded - are those composed by François Couperin, dated 1714.
At the end of the reign of Louis XIV, France was a land of piety, but also of Italianism in music, including religious music. The emotions composed by Couperin for his female singers are so dramatic that they sound like something out of an opera... Vocality and spirituality are artfully combined, testifying to the refinement of fine French singing practised both in the salons and theatres and in places of worship. People flocked to listen to the divine voices singing the Lessons for the days of Holy Week in Parisian convents, the faceless voices of young conventual recluses, voices from heaven... but often opera singers when theatres were closed during the period of penance before Easter! The candles were traditionally extinguished as the Office of Darkness unfolded, to end in the darkness of the night... The three extant lessons by François Couperin were written for Shrove Wednesday and represent one of the peaks of French sacred art of the early eighteenth century.
Gaétan Jarry conducts wonderful singers, Ana Quintans and Adèle Carlier for this concert, which is particularly relevant to Versailles, and which will also be recorded in our collection.
A Les Productions de l'Opéra Royal production
 Available in the Château de Versailles Spectacles collection
PROGRAMME
François Couperin (1668 – 1733)
Leçons de Ténèbres pour le Mercredi Saint
Michel Richard Delalande (1657 – 1726)
Cantique Quatrième : Sur le Bonheur des Justes et le Malheur des Réprouvés

François Couperin
Motet pour le Jour de Pâques : Victoria Christo Resugenti !

English

Couperin : Leçons de Ténèbres by Couperin, Delalande, mer. 05 avr. 2023, Du (2023/2023), Chef d'orchestre Gaétan Jarry, Chapelle Royale, Versailles, France

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