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

Organization

Singer

Soprano

Sophie Junker

Florie Valiquette

Conductor

Stéphane Fuget

Opéra Royal de Versailles

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Leçons de ténèbres -  (Lessons of Darkness)

Versailles

France

Chapelle Royale

Leçons de ténèbres Couperin

Public

Lessons of Darkness

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

Costume designer

Dancer

Dramaturge

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Lighting designer

Makeup artist

Orchestra

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Set designer

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Stage director

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Tenor

Countertenor

Bass-baritone

Baritone

Bass

Contralto

Mezzo-soprano

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

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

Lessons of Darkness by Couperin, De (2022/2022), Director musical Stéphane Fuget, Chapelle Royale, Versailles, France

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