Dominique Visse, one of the best countertenors of the Baroque opera world and whose discography around the French polyphonic songs of the Renaissance is a real reference in the field, will conduct the ensemble Café Zimmermann and the Aedes for a Christmas concerts tour.
The program is dedicated to the composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier, contemporary of Lully and Louis XIV, specialist in religious music. From the midnight Mass, a masterpiece of sacred music from the 17th century, to the motet In nativitatem Domini canticum, his scores show this art of grandiosity and the sumptuous celebration of French Baroque music. Three soloists are invited on stage : Renaud Delaigue (bass), David Tricou (high-against) and Martial Pauliat (tenor).
There is no need to introduce Dominique Visse. His 2017/2018 season is a perfect proof of his musical eclectism and uncommon personnality: in addition to this Christmas concerts tour as conductor, he sings in L'Incoronazione di Poppea by Monterverdi with Arnalta in Salzburger Festspiele and Nutrice at Angers-Nantes Opera; Satirino, la Natura and Furia in La Calisto at Bayerische Staatsoper; gives a recital at the Opéra national de Bordeaux and continues his intense activity as singer and musical director of Ensemble Clément Jannequin.
The bass Renaud Delaigue has also a rich 2017/2018's season : the roles of Arkel (Pelléas et Mélisande) with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie in Bremen and the Atelier lyrique de Tourcoing, the Aïeul (L'invisible by Aribert Reimann) at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Hebrew old man (Samson et Dalila) at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Bartolo (Le Nozze di Figaro) at the Opéra de Nice and Théâtre d'Antibes and Kostska (Delibes' Kassia) at Festival Radio France Occitanie Montpellier.
Christmas concerts with Café Zimmermann and Aedes
Marc-Antoine Charpentier - Oratorio In nativitatem domini canticum H.416 and Midnight Mass H.9
16 december 2017 - Aix-en-Provence (Grand Théâtre de Provence)
20 december 2017 - Paris (Eglise Saint Roch)
21 december 2017 - Nice (Cathédrale Sainte-Réparate)
22 december 2017 - Grasse (Cathédrale)
