Festival de Beaune

The Festival de Beaune: Festival international d’opéra baroque is a month-long annual summer festival of baroque opera in Beaune, France. It is notable for revivals of many baroque operas and performances of Mozart on original instruments.

More recently the town has also become host, in a different week, to the Festival international du film policier de Beaune - a festival of detective films.

Founded in 1982, the Baroque Music Festival of Beaune has presented over 80 operas, over 30 of them significant revivals and world, European or French premières; over 100 oratorio and sacred music concerts, including 5 revivals or premières. In addition to recitals by individual performers. The festival also runs classes and voice workshops, the Académie de Chant baroque.[1]

Venue

The concerts take place in the Hospices de Beaune, 15th century, and in the Collégiale Notre-Dame de Beaune, 12th century, over four weekends in July.

Notable opera revivals

The following includes only major revivals and premières:

1988
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon. dir. William Christie.
1990

George Frideric Handel: Flavio. dir. René Jacobs

1993

George Frideric Handel: Scipione. dir. Christophe Rousset

1994
  • George Frideric Handel: Poro. dir. Fabio Biondi
1995
  • George Frideric Handel: Riccardo Primo. Christophe Rousset
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2001
2003
2004
2005
2008
2009
  • No premieres - Handel celebration: Ariodante F. M. Sardelli; Giulio Cesare E. Lopez Banzo;
    Rinaldo O. Dantone; Acis and Galatea P. McCreesh.
2010
2011
29th Rameau Dardanus 1744 , Porpora Semiramide riconosciuta (Porpora) Stefano Montanari,
2012
30th Vivaldi Orlando Furioso 1714, Septem verba a Christo René Jacobs
2013
31st Festival - L'incoronazione di Dario Dantone Amadis (Lully) Rousset Orlando Jacobs
2014
32nd - Handel Teseo and Serse, Rameau Zaïs and Castor et Pollux
2015
33rd Nicola Porpora Il Trionfo della divina Giustizia Lully Armide
2016
34th - Rameau Zoroastre, Vivaldi Tamerlano
2017
35th Festival - Alessandro Scarlatti: Mitridate, Handel Ottone, Lully Alceste
2018
36th Rodrigo (Handel) Giustino (Vivaldi)

References

  1. ^ "Vision Bourgogne in French". Archived from the original on 2010-11-21. Retrieved 2010-04-11.

External links

  • (in French) Official website