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Festibus: Departure at 17:40 (Hala Tivoli, Ljubljana)
Academie baroque européenne d'Ambronay (FR):
Kerstin Dietl: soprano
Aurora Peña: soprano
Deborah Cachet: soprano
Alberto Miguélez-Rouco: counter-tenor
Jonas Descotte: counter-tenor
Clément Debieuvre: haute-contre
Etienne Duhil de Bénazé: tenor
Jean-Christophe Lanièce: bass-baritone
Renaud Bres: bass-baritone
Kinga Ujszaszi: violin
Alice Earll: violin
Isabel Soteras Valenti: violin
Ida Meidell Blylod: violin
Han Sol Lee: violin
Alba Encinas Gonzalez: viola
Zeno Scattolin: viola
Sevastyana Leonova: viola
Mathias Ferre: viol
Katharina Litschig: bass violin
Jadran Duncumb: theorbo
Inés Moreno Uncilla: harpsichord
Paul Agnew: Conductor
Artist's message to visitors
Come and listen to these incredible young musicians, selected into the best early music conservatories in Europe! Upon the direction of the singer and conductor Paul Agnew, they will perform the masterpiece from Purcell Dido & Aeneas and some extracts of Didon by Desmarest.
About the project
The 22nd Ambronay European Baroque Academy will be conducted by Paul Agnew, who for the first time will take on the musical direction, staging and educational supervision.
For this occasion, the associate conductor of Les Arts Florissants has put together a beautiful programme inspired by the story of Dido. As an appetiser he presents us with extracts from the opera Didon by Henry Desmarest, and for the main course the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry Purcell.
The love story between the Queen of Carthage and the Trojan warrior inspired the great English composer Purcell to create a timeless work which is still performed today on the world’s greatest operatic stages.
Its modest proportions (less than an hour long with a reduced orchestra) make it the ideal subject for a training project for young musicians. The music is superb from start to finish – from its overture ‘a la française’ to Dido’s final lament ‘When I am laid in earth’. The work is musically varied, constantly alternating between arias, duets, choruses and instrumental dances, and is a theatrical gem which allows the singers to express themselves both vocally and theatrically.
The Academy is composed of 9 singers and 12 musicians including the duo Repicco.
Académie baroque européenne d’Ambronay (FR)
The 22nd Ambronay European Baroque Academy (Academie baroque européenne d'Ambronay) will be conducted by Paul Agnew, who for the first time will take on musical direction, staging and educational supervision.
Concert programme
Henry Desmarest (1661–1741):
DIDON TRAGEDIE. MISE EN MUSIQUE
Par Monsieur DESMAREST
Henry Purcell (1659–1695):
Dido and Aeneas (1689)
To open the programme, Paul Agnew has chosen several extracts from Desmarest’s Didon. This tragic opera is rarely performed but was very well received at its premiere at the Académie Royale de Musique in 1693, only four years after Purcell’s opera. The music is beautiful and the libretto offers to its principal performer a formidable portrait of a woman. This performance is the public dissemination of an education project bringing together the young musicians taking part in this Academy. These young virtuosos — selected from among the best in Europe — will work on the two pieces in the programme during an intensive rehearsal period first at Ambronay Cultural Encounter Center (France) and then in Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia (Italy). The musicians will undertake an in-depth study of expressivity, theatricality and rhetoric as well as the technical demands of this repertoire.
Venue
Brežice, Brežice Castle
The two-storey castle is the mightiest building in Brežice, built in the middle of the 16th century in the site of the castle which was burnt down in 1515, in time of the great peasant revolt.
Partners
FESTIBUS
The price of the Festibus (a coach provided for all concerts outside of Ljubljana) is 10 EUR regardless of the event location.
