Airs pour le Roi Soleil: Music for The Sun King

Musica Antica Rotherhithe present excerpts from Luigi Rossi's L'Orfeo, Francesco Cavalli's Ercole Amante and Jean-Baptiste Lully's Atys alongside an intimate programme of songs and instrumental works written during the lifetime of Louis XIV, from the Italian Cantatas popularised in the years following the first opera productions brought to France to the rarely heard airs of Michel Lambert and Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

As ever, a bar selling home-infused gins, wine and beer will be open from 7pm.

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Robert Hugill - Planet Hugill

'Long may Musica Antica continue to unearth these rare treasures and perform them with style and beauty.'
Owen Davies - Plays to See

Programme
Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632 - 1687)
Atys: Act I i - iv
Luigi Rossi (1597 - 1653)
Fanciulla son io
La bella piu bella
Marc'Antonine Charpentier (1643-1704)
Sans frayeur dans ce bois
Michel Lambert (1610 - 1696)
Vos mépris chaque jour
Sans murmurer

Interval

Francesco Cavalli (1602 - 1676)
Ercole Amante: Act I Scene I-II
Luigi Rossi
L'Orfeo: La Morte d'Euridice
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Entree des Italiennes
Marc'Antonine Charpentier
Amor Vince Ogni Cosa: Amanti, godete

Performers

Jessica Eucker & Camilla Seale soprano
Tristram Cooke countertenor
Joachim Sabbat bass
ilana Cravitz & Rebecca Köhler Baratto violin
Harry Buckoke viola da gamba
Peter Martin theorbo
Oliver Doyle tenor & harpsichord