PRODUCTIONS
50/50
A meeting "across the Channel" between baroque and minimalism
A cross look between baroque and contemporary music, between French and English aesthetics. An Oxymoron concert around the idea of "new Early music".
Il Paradiso perduto
The colorful vision of the Garden of Eden by Luigi da Mancia
Zephyr, river, birds, wind, a charming pantheistic ideal… Attributed to Luigi Da Mancia, an unjustly forgotten genius of the Italian 17th century, this oratorio celebrates the Garden of Eden and our belonging to an unaltered environment before it was corrupted by the hand of Man.
La Francesina
Händel's sweet bird
Le portrait musical d’Elisabeth Duparc, grande cantatrice du XVIIIe siècle et muse de Hændel. Dans ce programme, la soprano belge Sophie Junker rend hommage à La Francesina et explore la collaboration qui la lia à Hændel pendant une décennie.
Dolce Follia
A journey from Iberian Peninsula to southern Italy
Inspired by the hip-hop choreography Folia, this program is inviting us to a journey trhough time from Iberian Peninsula to southern Italy. Folias, tarentellas, passacailles and chaconnes are the musical framework of this program.
Jubilatio
Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, and Pachelbel: a musical celebration!
A concert program where composers express their individual visions of melodious jubilation, composed to serve God, or their own pleasure.
L'Affaire Bach
Listen to Bach differently!
A concert discovery on the steps of forgotten, unpublished or apocryphal works of Johann Sebastian Bach. An atypical, relaxed and surprising concert.
The French connection
From Versailles to London, the Frenchies on the banks of the Thames
The Restoration went hand in hand with a true artistic renaissance. While many French composers settled in London, English composers, fascinated by Lully, drew their inspiration from Versailles. This mix of styles inspired two decades of fascinating and highly creative music.
FugaCités
Baroque music + urban cultures
FugaCités is a meeting between baroque music and urban cultures imagined by Franck-Emmanuel Comte and designed by Bérénice Collet. Three poetic and interdisciplinary variations with multiple inspirations, a creative dialogue between the instrumentalists of the Concert de l'Hostel Dieu and three leading artists of urban cultures: Tiko (human beatbox), Mehdi Krüger (slam), Jérôme Oussou (hip-hop dance) choreographed by Mourad Merzouki.
Baroque au féminin
Through various events, Baroque au féminin aims to promote a little-known musical repertoire of female baroque composers - but also, and above all, to question the place of women in musical creation, while making the public aware of the problems of inequality that still remains.
Folia
The baroque hip-hop ballet
The unexpected meeting between Mourad Merzouki's hip-hop and the baroque folias of the Concert de l'Hostel Dieu. On stage, the dancers evolve alongside the baroque musicians, their worlds confronting and transforming each other.
