André Cardinal Destouches and Michel Richard Delalande opera-ballet Les élémens (1721)

Les Élémens or Ballet des élemens is an opera-ballet by French composers André Cardinal Destouches and Michel Richard Delalande. The libretto was written by Pierre-Charles Roy. The opera was first performed at the Tuileries, Paris on 31 December 1721, with the 11-year-old Louis XV participating in the dancing.

 

Fabio Bonizzoni (Italy) – musical director                                                                                      

Rūta Vox (Lithuania) – artistic director                                                                                                                                                 

Elisabeth Svarstad (Norway) – choreographer

 

Scenographers: Haroldas Kuliešius, Agnė Vinčaitė, Ieva Vaičiulytė, Vaiva Paulauskaitė, Viktoriia Khomovnenko

 

Singers

Justina Mykolaitytė – Venus, Leukosi, Emilia

Ervinas Jasevičius – Destiny, Neptune, Ixion, Valero

Karolina Parmas – Arion, Juno

Vilius Tumalavičius – Mercury

Gabrielė Andrulytė – Amour, Nymph

Adrijana Balsytė – Nymph

Vasilisa Agarkova – Nymph

 

Dancers

International Baroque Orchestra „L’Air“

Judyta Tupczyńska (Poland) – first violin and leader

Jana Zariņa (Latvia) – basso continuo (harpsichord)

 

 

Lecturers: lekt. dr. Rūta Vox (Vosyliūtė), lekt. Jūratė Širvytė-Rukštelė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), doc. Giedrė Brazytė (Vilnius Academy of Arts)

 

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