
Renaissance Great Hall
Baroque music festival BAROQUE EVENINGS
Director Vincent Dumestre
Since it has been created in 2001, this program has been applauded in France and in Europe (Cologne Philharmonic, Festival of Sacred Music Granada Festival, Misteria Paschalia Krakow...), United States (San Francisco Calperfomances) and Latin America (Festival of Havana in Cuba, Campos do Jordao Festival in Brazil). Its record has received many awards from the French and foreign press.
Le Poème Harmonique
Formed in 1998, Le Poème Harmonique is a group of soloists, gathered around its artistic director Vincent Dumestre. Its artistic activity, focused on vocal and instrumental music of the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, is regularly enriched by interaction with other disciplines. This synthesis of arts, linked with real teamwork (working together as a company), signs the singularity of Le Poème Harmonique in Baroque worldwide landscape today.
Actors, dancers, circus artists and puppeteers join its singers and musicians in programs of chamber works and, since 2004, in large-scale stage productions, such as Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Molière and Lully and Baroque Carnival. For operatic performances, such as Lully’s Cadmus et Hermione and Cavalli’s Egisto, Le Poème Harmonique studies in depth the correspondences between ‘period’ aesthetics – use of candles for lighting, painted sets, authentic gestures and machinery – and the aesthetics of modern stage productions. The ensemble also gets back to the sources of early French and Italian music by exploring its relationships with traditional or folk music. The recording entitled Aux Marches du Palais, for instance, is devoted to French songs of oral tradition.
Since it has been founded, the ensemble has made many concert tours in Europe and has appeared all over the world. It has a particularly strong rapport with audiences in Rome, New York and Tokyo.
Tickets: Lt20, LT40 / €5.79, €11.58
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Organized by French Institute in Lithuania / Institut français de Lituanie
Co-organizer National Museum Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
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