Description
With a touch of imagination and the magic of Victoire Bunel's voice, we are transported from the Château de Canon to the Palais du Louvre. A lively, bustling royal palace, where music mingles with everyday Parisian life. Before the sun rises in Versailles, this is where power, festivity and music merge. Drinking tunes rose from the kitchens, bourrées and tambourines were played on the palace steps, the viola da gamba enchanted the court and Italian comedies seduced it. Soon, the "total show" of opera from Italy would be transformed into a sumptuous French-style "lyric machine". It's a programme very much in the style of Le Poème Harmonique, where the chic refinement of the air de cour et de cœur is never far from the folk ardour of popular songs and laments.