Le Poème Harmonique
Her Prince Charming leaves, the Queen collapses – a life forever torn apart by fate: even after three centuries, Henry Purcell’s Dido remains one of the most moving operas ever written. What makes this work so timeless? The composer’s ability to capture the 17th-century language of longing and sorrow in music that speaks directly to the soul.
Le Poème Harmonique presents Purcell’s masterpiece in a powerful concert version, which has already had twenty successful performances. Vincent Dumestre conjures up a world of sound in which French tragédie lyrique and English masque, Lully’s majesty and Dowland’s melancholy, romantic passion and supernatural mystery all find each other. An unmissable retelling of an unforgettable classic.
Programme
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Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (1689)
1659-1695
Musicians
- Adèle Charvet Dido, Queen of Carthage
- Ana Quintanss Belinda, her sister
- Jean-Christophe Lanièce Aeneas, Trojan prince
- Igor Bouin the magician, a sailor
- Caroline Meng first witch
- Anouk Defontenay second witch
- Fernando Escalona Melendez a spirit
- Marie Théoleyre second lady
- Choir
- Marie Picaut, Jeanne Lefort, Virginie Thomas, Hannah Marandin soprano
- Damien Ferrante, NN alto
- Ivar Hervieu, Léo Reymann, Stéphan Orly, Lisandro Pelegrina, Guillame Gutierrez tenor
- Roland Ten Weges, Lucas Bacro, David Robbe, Valentin Jansen bass
- Jean-Sébastien Beauvais choir preparation
- Fiona-Émilie Poupard, Camille Aubret, Rozarta Luka, NN violin I
- Louise Ayrton, Sophie Iwamura, Roxana Rastegar, Minori Deguchi violin II
- Delphine Millour, Maialen Loth viola
- Lucas Peres, Cyril Poulet cello
- Chloé Lucas double bass
- Elsa Frank, Isaure Lavergne flute
- Jérémie Papasergio bassoon, flute
- Sylvain Fabre percussion
- Victorien Disse, Etienne Galletier guitar
- Sara Agueda Martin harp
- Elisabeth Geiger virginal
- Vincent Dumestre musical direction
