The Festival de Beaune: Festival international d’opéra baroque is a month-long annual summer festival of baroque opera in Beaune, France. It is notable for revivals of many baroque operas and performances of Mozart on original instruments.
More recently the town has also become host, in a different week, to the Festival international du film policier de Beaune - a festival of detective films.
Founded in 1982, the Baroque Music Festival of Beaune has presented over 80 operas, over 30 of them significant revivals and world, European or French premières; over 100 oratorio and sacred music concerts, including 5 revivals or premières. In addition to recitals by individual performers. The festival also runs classes and voice workshops, the Académie de Chant baroque.
Venue The concerts take place in the Hospices de Beaune, 15th century, and in the Collégiale Notre-Dame de Beaune, 12th century, over four weekends in July.
Notable opera revivals The following includes only major revivals and premières:
1988 Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon. dir. William Christie. 1990 George Frideric Handel: Flavio. dir. René Jacobs 1993 George Frideric Handel: Scipione. dir. Christophe Rousset Campra: l’Europe Galante. Marc Minkowski 1994 George Frideric Handel: Poro. dir. Fabio Biondi 1995 George Frideric Handel: Riccardo Primo. Christophe Rousset 1994 Niccolò Jommelli: Armida abbandonata. Christophe Rousset 1995 Nicola Porpora: Arianna in Nasso. Rinaldo Alessandrini 1996 Jean-Baptiste Lully: Acis et Galatée. Marc Minkowski 1997 Tommaso Traetta: Antigona. Christophe Rousset Antonio de Literes: Los Elementos. Eduardo López Banzo
1998 George Frideric Handel: Admeto. Christophe Rousset Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre. William Christie 1999 Henri Desmarets: Didon. Christophe Rousset Antonio de Literes: Acis y Galatea. Eduardo López Banzo 2001 Jean-Baptiste Lully: 'Persée. Christophe Rousset Francesco Cavalli: I Strali d’Amore. Gabriel Garrido 2003 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade. Ottavio Dantone 2004 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Il Flaminio. Ottavio Dantone 2005 Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Don Quichotte in Sierra Morena. René Jacobs.
2008 Domenico Scarlatti: Ottavia restituita al trono. Cappella della Pietà de Turchini, Antonio Florio. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria. Ottavio Dantone. 2009 No premieres - Handel celebration: Ariodante F. M. Sardelli; Giulio Cesare E. Lopez Banzo; Rinaldo O. Dantone; Acis and Galatea P. McCreesh. 2010 Jean-Baptiste Lully: Bellérophon composed 1697, unperformed. Les Talens Lyriques, dir Christophe Rousset 2011 29th Rameau Dardanus 1744 , Porpora Semiramide riconosciuta (Porpora) Stefano Montanari, 2012 30th Vivaldi Orlando Furioso 1714, Septem verba a Christo René Jacobs 2013 31st Festival - L'incoronazione di Dario Dantone Amadis (Lully) Rousset Orlando Jacobs 2014 32nd - Handel Teseo and Serse, Rameau Zaïs and Castor et Pollux 2015 33rd Nicola Porpora Il Trionfo della divina Giustizia Lully Armide 2016 34th - Rameau Zoroastre, Vivaldi Tamerlano 2017 35th Festival - Alessandro Scarlatti: Mitridate, Handel Ottone, Lully Alceste 2018 36th Rodrigo (Handel) Giustino (Vivaldi)
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