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Photo: Attila Nagy
classical music, opera, theatre

Rameau: Naïs

one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
  • Produced by Müpa Budapest
  • Early Music Festival

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"Opera for Peace” was the subtitle given by Jean-Philippe Rameau to his three-act opera in reference to the Treaty of Aachen ending the War of the Austrian Succession. Premièred in 1749 and almost immediately forgotten, it was rediscovered in 1980 but has still been performed only rarely since. In the daringly avant-garde, compelling prologue, the Gods - Jupiter, representing Louis XV, and Neptune, who embodies the British King George II - reach an agreement. The mythological story revolving around the famous water nymph of the title, famed for her beauty and wonderful voice, takes place during the Isthmian Games - held in the year before and the year after the Olympic Games in the cycle of the Olympiad - where Neptune disguises himself in an attempt to win the heart of Naïs. In accordance with the setting, the composer set wrestling, boxing and athletics to music in the ballet interludes, but there is also birdsong, regal pomp and a spectacular sea battle, before Neptune's underwater palace is suddenly transformed.
The work, which exalts in Rameau's brilliantly original instrumentation and harmonic and melodic invention, will be performed here by world-renowned soloists and outstanding representatives of the Hungarian early music scene.

Cooperating partner: Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles (CMBV)
Sponsored by: Institut français de Budapest

Presented by: Müpa Budapest

Sections

  • Rameau: Naïs - concert performance

Conductor:

  • György Vashegyi

Performers:

  • Naïs
    Chantal Santon-Jeffery
  • Neptune
    Reinoud Van Mechelen
  • Jupiter / Tirésie
    Florian Sempey
  • Pluton / Télénus
    Thomas Dolié
  • Astérion
    Manuel Nuñez-Camelino
  • Flore / A shepherdess
    Daniela Skorka
  • Palémon
    Philippe-Nicolas Martin
  • Protée
    Komáromi Márton

Featuring:

  • Purcell Choir
  • Orfeo Orchestra

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