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Baroque ensemble on period instruments Francis Colpron, artistic director |
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Seasons > 2008-09 Season > Concerts > Molière en musiqueThursday May 29, 2008, 8:00 pm Wednesday September 17, 2008, 8:00 pm Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours[a] 400, rue Saint-Paul Est — Vieux-Montréal, Québec [métro
Champ-de-Mars] Selected scenes from Molière’s plays and music by Lully and Charpentier — With the collaboration of the actors Sophie Faucher and Carl Béchard — 11 musicians We often forget that in more than half of the plays of Molière, music that is more or less connected with the plot has an important role. For almost 10 years, Molière worked closely with Jean-Baptiste Lully, Louis XIV’s favorite musician, to devise amusements for the Sun King. Les deux Baptiste, as Madame de Sévigné called them (for they both had Baptiste as one of their names), produced several masterpieces of high comedy, and then invented the comédie-ballet, a kind of total art theatre. In Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, their greatest success, they wove extremely varied music into the dramatic structure. After Lully abandoned Molière in order to direct the Académie royale de Musique and to create French opera, the playwright, two years before his death, collaborated on Le Malade imaginaire with a young musician who had just come from Italy: Marc-Antoine Charpentier. |