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Festival d'Aix en Provence

Conductor

Emmanuelle Haïm

Stage director

Krzysztof Warlikowski

Costume designer

Małgorzata Szczęśniak

Set designer

Singer

Soprano

Sabine Devieilhe

Beauty

Tenor

Michael Spyres

Time

Contralto

Sara Mingardo

Deceit

Franco Fagioli

Piacere

Lighting designer

Felice Ross

Video designer

Denis Guéguin

Choreographer

Claude Bardouil

Dramaturge

Christian Longchamp

Opéra de Lille

Théâtre de Caen

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Le Concert d'Astrée

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Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno -  (The Triumph of Time and Truth)

Aix-en-Provence

France

Théâtre de l'Archevêché

Aix-en-Provence Festival 2016 - Händel: Il Trionfo del tempo e del Disinganno by Georg Friedrich Händel, 2016. Directed by Stéphane Metge, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm. Starring Sabine Devieilhe, Sarah Mingardo, Franco Fagioli.Performed in Italian.

Elena at the prestigious Aix-en-Provence Festival: Cavalli's opera staged for the first time in 350 years!

Francesco Cavalli and the librettist-impresario Giovanni Faustini's collaboration gave birth to 10 operas. When he died in 1651, Faustini left several unfinished libretti, among which the opera Elena. Niccolo Minato completed it and a few years later, in 1659, the opera was premiered in Venice. Since then and in spite of its great success, the opera had never been performed anymore... until 2013! The Aix-en-Provence Festival brought back this masterpiece to life with a brand new staging by Jean-Yves Ruf.

The opera is a mythological drama which tells the story of Helen, whose stunning beauty caused passionate troubles...

Picture: Elena, Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2013 © Pascal Victor/ArtcomArt.

This program was initially broadcast live from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence on medici.tv on the 11th of July 2013.

Emmanuelle Haim conducts Le Concert d’Astrée in a rendition of G. F. Handel’s two-part oratorio “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” (The Triumph of Time and Truth). The work with a libretto by Benedetto Pamphili was first performed in Rome, in 1707. Director Krzysztof Warlikowski has taken Handel’s first oratorio, written when the composer was only 22 years old, on in a deep, tender staging. In this oratorio, the characters Time and Disillusion try to convince Beauty to abandon Pleasure for less fleeting gratifications. Sabine Devieilhe is unquestionably the star that carries the show, always impressive in technique, range and timbre. Her sparring and harmonizing with Franco Fagioli is magnificent. Other soloists are Michael Spyres and Sara Mingardo. Recorded at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence in 2016.

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