YOUNG EUROPEAN BAROQUE ORCHESTRA (JOBE) - Venus and Adonis - opera concert version - duration 1 hour - €24 • €10 • €5
Composer and organist at the Chapel Royal, Westminster, London, and Henry Purcell's teacher, John Blow (1649-1708), renowned for his sacred music, composed the first English opera in 1683: Venus and Adonis. Based on Ovid's Metamorphoses, this semi-opera, a 17th-century English lyric musical genre, transforms a pastoral subject into a dramatic masterpiece, punctuated with humor.
Venus loves Adonis, and encourages her lover to join a hunting party because "absence sharpens desire." Adonis, wounded, dies in the goddess's arms. Blow's genius is undeniable, right up to the famous final scene in a magnificent chiaroscuro score.
JOBE is an initiative of the Les Ombres ensemble in partnership with Les Nuits Musicales d'Uzès. Each year, the best young musicians in Europe gather around a lyrical work, presented in concert at prestigious venues and festivals in France and abroad.
At 6:30 PM, Pre-Stage Meeting - 45 mins • Free
Interview between Sylvain Sartre, co-founder of the Les Ombres ensemble with Margaux Blanchard, and Jean-Marc Andrieu
"The Young European Baroque Orchestra transmits a contagious energy and brings the Baroque and the stars into dialogue." Classiquenews
Venus loves Adonis, and encourages her lover to join a hunting party because "absence sharpens desire." Adonis, wounded, dies in the goddess's arms. Blow's genius is undeniable, right up to the famous final scene in a magnificent chiaroscuro score.
JOBE is an initiative of the Les Ombres ensemble in partnership with Les Nuits Musicales d'Uzès. Each year, the best young musicians in Europe gather around a lyrical work, presented in concert at prestigious venues and festivals in France and abroad.
At 6:30 PM, Pre-Stage Meeting - 45 mins • Free
Interview between Sylvain Sartre, co-founder of the Les Ombres ensemble with Margaux Blanchard, and Jean-Marc Andrieu
"The Young European Baroque Orchestra transmits a contagious energy and brings the Baroque and the stars into dialogue." Classiquenews
