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The Royal Feasts of the Wedding of the Count of Artois
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Sunday October 2nd 2022
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Royal Opera
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3pm | 1h30 without intermission
Cast
Les Ambassadeurs ~ La Grande Ecurie
Alexis Kossenko Direction
Presentation
In the Versailles of the French kings, music was omnipresent, especially during ceremonial events, and specifically during royal meals: for decades, the monarch dined in public and to music, with Lalande’s Symphonies for the King’s Supper being a lavish example. In the 1770s, when Louis XV successively married off his three grandsons, he had the Royal Opera House constructed to host the official ceremonies, including the Royal Feast, where music played an essential role. A keystone of the wedding ceremony, the grand state dinner was entirely accompanied by music, which drowned out the hubbub of the hundreds of assembled courtiers and the noise of table service.
Un orchestre considérable de soixante-dix musiciens faisaient entendre des symphonies splendides, issues des meilleures compositions du temps, souvent les opéras à succès. C’était donc une apologie de la grande tradition française que ce recueil de suites, dont le raffinement orchestral n’a d’égal que la puissance dramatique et l’énergie chorégraphique. De ces musiques de Cour, il reste le recueil de celles données dans l’Opéra Royal pour le mariage du comte d’Artois (futur Charles X) en 1773, réunies et arrangées pour l’occasion par Francoeur, et exécutées par le Surintendant de la Musique du roi, Rebel. Alexis Kossenko redonne à ces musiques festives le luxe de leur interprétation en grand effectif, sur la scène même qui les avait accueillies pour ce mariage historique !
Programme
Marriage of Charles-Philippe, Count of Artois, to Marie-Thérèse of Savoy, on November 16, 1773, in Paris, with the blessing of Louis XV.
FIRST SUITE
François Francoeur (1698-1787) and François Rebel (1701-1775)
The Trophy: Overture
The Ballet of Peace: Grave Air
Pierre-Montan Berton (1727-1780)
Camilla, Queen of the Volscians by André Campra: Brisk Air
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer (1703-1755)
Zaïde, Queen of Grenada: Graceful and Tender Rondeau
François Francoeur and François Rebel
The Ballet of Peace: Chaconne
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SECOND SUITE
François Francoeur and François Rebel
Scanderberg: Overture
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
The Festivities of Hymen and Love: Majestic Air
François Francoeur and François Rebel
Pyramus and Thisbe: Graceful Air
Brisk Air
Graceful Gavotte: airs added to Armida by Jean-Baptiste Lully – first gavotte only
Ballet of Felicity: Marked Air
Brisk Air
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Dardanus: Graceful Gavottes
François Francoeur
Contredanse
THIRD SUITE
Jean-Philippe Rameau
The Festivities of Hymen and Love: March
Bernard De Bury (1720-1785)
Hylas and Zelie: Slow Air
Light Rondeau
Jean-Philippe Rameau
The Surprises of Love: Graceful Rondeau
Joseph Hyacinthe Ferrand (1709-1791)
Zelie: Graceful Rondeau
Jean-Claude Trial (1732-1771)
The Feast of Flora: Lively Contredanse
Pierre-Montan Berton
Chaconne: air added to Iphigenia in Tauris by Christoph Willibald Gluck
FOURTH SUITE
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Zaïs: Opening
The Temple of Glory: Minuet
Dardanus: Rondeau
François Francoeur and François Rebel
Tender Air: air added to The Rosière de Salency by Charles-Simon Favart
Rondeau: airs added to Pyramus and Thisbe by François Francoeur and François Rebel – first rondeau only
The Prince of Noisy: Gay Rondeau
Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville (1711-1772)
Titon and Aurora: Musette
Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer
Pyrrhus: Chaconne
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Castor and Pollux: “Tambourines”
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