Les Arts Florissants

Les Arts Florissants tends to be associated with Monteverdi, Gesualdo, Bach and Rameau, but the ensemble also plays Beethoven, including works that paved the way for the great Romantic and post-Romantic conductors, such as his Symphony No. 6.

Program and cast

October 8, 2024
Duration: approximately 2h00 including 1 intermission

Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew, conductor
Théotime Langlois de Swarte, violin

Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to The Marriage of Figaro
Violin Concerto No. 3

Intermission

Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"

November 1, 2024
Duration: approximately 1h45 including 1 intermission

Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, conductor
Sonya Yoncheva, soprano

Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to La Finta giardiniera, KV.196
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Alceste: Alceste's Air "Divinités du Styx"
Orfeo ed Euridice, Ballet of the Happy Shadows
Antonio Sacchini
Œdipe à Colone - Antigone "Dieux ce n’est pas pour moi" (III,1)
Luigi Cherubini
Médée "Vous voyez de vos fils la mère infortunée"
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Dance of the Furies
(excerpt from Orfeo ed Euridice)
Iphigénie en Tauride "Oh malheureuse Iphigénie"
Niccolò Piccinni
Didon (Act III, scene 1) "Non, ce n’est plus pour moi"

Intermission

Louis-Claude-Armand Chardin
"C'est mon ami"
Arrangement for string accompaniment
Johann Paul Aegidius Martini
Plaisir d’amour, romance
orchestration by Hector Berlioz
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Excerpt from the Ballet of Idomeneo - Larghetto for Madame Hartig
Luigi Cherubini
Demophoon "Ah! Peut-être mes dieux!"
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Armide, Chaconne
Armide: Armide's Air "Ah! Si la liberté me doit être ravie"
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Excerpt from the Ballet of Idomeneo - Passacaille for Monsieur Antoine
Excerpt from La Clemenza di Tito KV 621 (Act II, 15) - "Ecco il punto, o Vitellia! ... Non più di fiori"

March 5, 2025
Duration: approximately 1h45 including 1 intermission

Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, conductor
Mélissa Petit, soprano
Beth Taylor, alto
Bastien Rimondi, tenor
Andreas Wolf, bass

Program
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Litaniae Lauretanae

Intermission

Joseph Haydn
Harmoniemesse

April 30, 2025
Duration: approximately 2h45 including 1 intermission

Les Arts Florissants
Paul Agnew, conductor
Ana Vieira Leite, Mary Magdalene
Julie Roset, an angel
Lucile Richardot, Mary, wife of Cleophas
Cyril Auvity, Saint John the Apostle
Christopher Purves, Lucifer

Program
Georg Friedrich Handel
The Resurrection
Part 1

Intermission

The Resurrection
Part 2