Les Arts Florissants at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, November 9, 2017

Cal Performances presents Les Arts Florissants, performing Charpentier's Actéon and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
Zellerbach Hall Auditorium
U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94305 USA
8:00 PM, Thursday, November 9, 2017

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[7 PM Pre-performance Talk with musicologist Victor Gavenda]

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704): Actéon, H.481 (1685)

• Libretto
• Score

Dramatis Personae

• Lea Desandre: mezzo-soprano vox, as Junon
• Renato Dolcini: baritone vox, as Chasseur
• Elodie Fonnard: soprano vox, as Diane
• Maud Gnidzaz: soprano vox, as Hyale
• Rachel Redmond: soprano vox, as Arthébuze
• Virginie Thomas: soprano vox, as Daphné
• Reinoud Van Mechelen: tenor vox, as Actéon

[8:04 PM lights down, announcements, band out]

1. [8:07 PM] Ouverture
    
   Scène Première: dans la vallée de Gargaphie
2. [8:08 PM] Chœur de Chasseurs
3. [8:09 PM] Air d'Actéon
4. [8:10 PM] Duo de Chasseurs et Chœur de Chasseurs
    
   Scène Seconde: Diane, Arethuze, Daphné, Hyale et Chœur des Nimphes de Diane
5. [8:12 PM] Air de Diane et Chœur de Nymphes
6. [8:13 PM] Duo de Daphné et Hyalé
7. [8:17 PM] Air d'Aréthuse et Chœur de Nymphes
    
   Scène Troisième: Actéon, Diane, Aréthuze, Daphné, Hyale et Chœur des Nimphes
8. [8:20 PM] Recitatif et Air d'Actéon
9. [8:24 PM] Duo de Diane et Actéon
10. [8:m PM] Chœur de Nymphes
     
    Scène Quatrième: Actéon seu
11. [8:27 PM] Recitatif d'Actéon
12. [8:29 PM] Plainte
     
    Scène Cinquième: Chœur des Chasseurs, Actéon en Cerf
13. [8:33 PM] Chœur de Chasseurs
     
    Scène Sixième: Junon, Chœur de Chasseurs
14. [8:34 PM] Air de Junon et Chœur de Chasseurs
15. [8:40 PM] Chœur de Chasseurs
    [set ends 8:42 PM; bows and applause, then all off after a few minutes]

Henry Purcell (1659–1695): Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (1688); libretto by Nahum Tate (1652-1715)

• Libretto
• Libretto (alt source)
• Score (german)

Dramatis Personae

• Lea Desandre: mezzo-soprano vox, as Dido, Queen of Carthage
• Renato Dolcini: baritone vox, as Aeneas, a Trojan prince
• Elodie Fonnard: soprano vox, as second woman
• Maud Gnidzaz: soprano vox, as first witch
• Rachel Redmond: soprano vox, as Belinda, Dido's confidante
• Virginie Thomas: soprano vox, as second witch
• Carlo Vistoli: countertenor vox, as Sorceress
• Reinoud Van Mechelen: tenor vox, as Spirit, in the form of Mercury, and Sailor
• Company: Dido's train, Aeneas' train, Fairies, Sailors

[9:04 PM lights down, performers out]

1. [9:05 PM] Overture
    
   Act I
2. [9:07 PM] Solo and Chorus: Shake the Cloud
3. [9:08 PM] Dido: Ah! Belinda
4. [9:m PM] Recitative: Grief Increases
5. [9:13 PM] Chorus: When Monarchs Unite
6. [9:m PM] Recitative: Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring
7. [9:m PM] Duet and Chorus: Fear No Danger
8. [9:m PM] Recitative: See Your Royal Guest
9. [9:17 PM] Chorus: Cupid Only Throws the Dart
10. [9:17 PM] Recitative: If Not for Mine
11. [9:18 PM] Air: Persue Thy Conquest
12. [9:19 PM] Chorus: To the Hills and the Vales
13. [9:20 PM] The Triumphing Dance
     
    Act II
14. [9:m PM] Prelude for the Witches
15. [9:21 PM] Chorus: Harm's Our Delight
16. [9:m PM] Recitative: The Queen of Carthage
17. [9:m PM] Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho!
18. [9:m PM] Recitative: Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun
19. [9:m PM] Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho!
20. [9:m PM] Duet: But, Ere we This Perform
21. [9:m PM] Chorus: In Our Deep Vaulted Cell
22. [9:m PM] Echo Dance of Furies
23. [9:m PM] Ritornelle
24. [9:28 PM] Song and Chorus: Thanks to These Lonesome Vales
25. [9:32 PM] Song: Oft She Visits
26. [9:m PM] Recitative: Behold, Upon My Bended Spear
27. [9:34 PM] Song and Chorus: Haste to Town
28. [9:35 PM] Recitative: Stay, Prince
     
    Act III
29. [9:38 PM] Prelude, Song and Chorus: Come Away, Fellow Sailors
30. [9:m PM] The Sailors' Dance
31. [9:40 PM] Recitative: See the Flags
32. [9:m PM] Song: Our Next Motion Must Be to Storm
33. [9:m PM] Chorus: Destruction's Our Delight
34. [9:m PM] The Witches' Dance
35. [9:44 PM] Recitative: Your Counsel
36. [9:m PM] Recitative: But Death, Alas!
37. [9:m PM] Chorus: Great Minds
38. [9:49 PM] Recitative: Thy Hand, Belinda
39. [9:m PM] Song: When I am Laid in Earth
40. [9:m PM] With Drooping Wings
    [show ends 9:55 PM; applause, bows, more applause, more bows; all off, eventually…]

• Paul Agnew, associate music director, associate conductor
• William Christie: director;
• Sophie de Bardonnèche: viola;
• Lea Desandre: mezzo-soprano vox;
• Renato Dolcini: baritone vox;
• Thomas Dunford: lute, theorboro;
• Pier Luigi Fabretti: oboe;
• Elodie Fonnard: soprano vox;
• Maud Gnidzaz: soprano vox;
• Théotime Langlois de swarte: baroque violin;
• Rachel Redmond: soprano vox;
• Emmanuel Resche: baroque violin;
• Virginie Thomas: soprano vox;
• Alix Verzier: cello;
• Carlo Vistoli: countertenor vox;
• Reinoud Van Mechelen: tenor vox;

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