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Since the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival was founded in 2020, the city of Bayreuth has become a mecca for Baroque music. Max Emanuel Cenčić, the Festival Director who won the Oper! Award 2024, has once again brought together virtuosos of the lyric art. Sandrine Piau invites us to savour the frivolity of 18th-century Rome through cantatas with enchanting notes.

Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024

Frivolous cantatas about 18th-century Rome with Sandrine Piau, from the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024.

Sandrine Piau & Les Talens Lyriques

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In the 18th century, Hamburg Opera broke free from the influence of Italy, giving rise to a new musical culture in Germany. Counter-tenor Max Emanuel Cenčić offers us a glimpse of this vibrant operatic life from the stage of the stunning Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth, accompanied by Christoph Rousset's Les Talens Lyriques.

Max Emanuel Cenčić takes us back to the rich tradition of Hamburg opera.

Max Emanuel Cenčić & Les Talens Lyriques

Madrid's International Festival of Sacred Art (FIAS) offers a uniquely diverse program at various venues across the Spanish capital every year. An opportunity to enjoy the work of high profile artists as well as new names, works and various other performances. El Gran Teatro del Mundo opens the festival with a French composer: Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

Madrid International Festival of Sacred Art

The FIAS opening concert featuring the El Gran Teatro del Mundo ensemble and works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

El Gran Teatro del Mundo

An intimate and informal concert from the King’s private bedchamber in Versaille with Thibaut Roussel and Les Musiciens du Roi.

French Baroque Music from Versailles

The King's Bedtime

Eight soloists take the audience at La Folle Journée de Nantes on a trip back to the 17th century, a journey that starts in France and ends up in Italy. The first part of the concert is dedicated to French Baroque music. Salomé Gasselin and Corinna Metz play viola da gamba, Jonathan Zehnder performs the theorbo and Emmanuel Arakelian plays organ on compositions by Louis Couperin, Jacques Boyvin and Louis de Caix d'Hervelois. The second part of the program goes over the Alps on a visit to Italy with Hanna Salzenstein on baroque cello, Thibaut Roussel on theorbo, Alberik Boullenois on bowed bass and Justin Taylor on harpsichord.

French and Italian Baroque Music at La Folle Journée de Nantes 2024

Eight soloists take the audience at the Folle Journée de Nantes on a journey through the Baroque era.

French and Italian Baroque Music

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Considered one of the greatest composers in the history of music, Johann Sebastian Bach is a true classical music heavyweight. His seminal oeuvre comprises over 1,000 compositions, most of which date back to his time as Kapellmeister at St. Thomas's Church in Leipzig. Discover these great classics, from the St. Matthew Passion to the Goldberg Variations.

Bach the Baroque Superstar

No maestros here, only maestras: We showcase some of the most notable female conductors working in music today. Whether they be established names, pioneers or rising stars taking part in the La Maestra competition, delve into this series of concerts to discover each of their singular visions. 

Female conductors

Pioneers, rising stars and promising talent: These are some of the most notable female conductors working today.

Generation Maestras

Celestial chants and harmonies that have resonated for centuries... The dominant form during the Baroque era, sacred music has never ceased to inspire the greatest composers. Oratorios, masses, requiems: Here is a selection to discover the treasures of a highly artistic era and enjoy a divine musical experience.

Oratorios, masses and requiems: a musical pilgrimage through sacred music and song.

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Choir director Sofi Jeannin invites cellist Ophélie Gaillard and her Ensemble Pulcinella to a concert featuring several works by Vivaldi, Laura Sirmen Lombardini's Violin Concerto and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina's Magnificat Quarti Toni.

Performing works by Vivaldi and Palestrina

Sofi Jeannin with Ophélie Gaillard, the Maîtrise de Radio France and the Ensemble Pulcinella.

Ophélie Gaillard and Sofi Jeannin

Max Emanuel Cenčić takes us back to the rich tradition of Hamburg opera.

Celebrated organist Sebastián Durón was unrivalled in his ability to marry Italian Baroque opera with incandescent Iberian folklore, much to the delight of the Spanish Court. Winners of the Opus Klassik prize for their recording of this music, Núria Rial and Fahmi Alqhai present Muera Cupido at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024.

Núria Rial and Fahmi Alqhai won the Opus Klassik prize in 2020 for their album Muera Cupido.

Núria Rial and Fahmi Alqhai

Solemn, and yet jubilant and festive: Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 is an essential masterpiece. Tenor Julian Prégardien, the NDR Vokalsensemble and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin come together to bring all the magic of the festive season.

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin and NDR choir

A solemn yet jubilant and festive piece: Bach's unmissable masterpiece with tenor Julian Prégardien.

Bach's Christmas Oratorio: Cantatas I to VI

Sacred music meets the theatricality of opera in Handel's oratorio Messiah, here conducted by Laurence Equilbey and performed by the Insula Orchestra, Polish artist Jakub Józef Orliński and the Chœurs accentus at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival.

Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival

Laurence Equilbey conducts Handel's "Messiah" at the Aix-en-Provence Easter Festival.

Handel's Messiah

Madrid's International Festival of Sacred Art (FIAS) offers a uniquely diverse program at various venues across the Spanish capital every year. An opportunity to enjoy the work of high profile artists as well as new names, works and various other performances. Here, Soprano Ana Vieira Leite and the Concerto 1700 ensemble perform Handel's German Arias.

Soprano Ana Vieira Leite and the Concerto 1700 ensemble perform Handel's German Arias in Madrid.

Handel: German Arias

Madrid's International Festival of Sacred Music (FIAS) offers a unique international program every year at various venues around the Spanish capital. The venue for this concert is the San Miguel basilica for a performance of Tomás Luis de Victoria's Tenebræ Responsoria by Cantoría, a young Spanish ensemble with an international following.

The Cantoría performs Tomás Luis de Victoria's Tenebræ Responsoria in the Basilica of San Miguel.

Tenebræ Responsoria

Jean-Baptiste Lully is synonymous with the Versailles of Louis XIV with his music composed for and accompanying the grand occasions of the court. Three of the composer’s motets are performed from the royal chapel of Versailles.
 Programme :
Jean-Baptiste Lully - Dies Irae
 Jean-Baptiste Lully - O Lachrymae fideles
 Jean-Baptiste Lully - De Profundis

Jean-Baptiste Lully is synonymous with the Versailles of Louis XIV with his music composed for and accompanying the grand occasions of the court.