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For its 2025 edition, La Folle Journée celebrates the cities of music. Ricercar Consort and Floriane Hasler have chosen Venice as the destination for their concert, with Vivaldi guiding them through the Serenissima.

La Folle Journée de Nantes 2025

The Ricercar Consort and mezzo-soprano Floriane Hasler set sail for Venice.

Vivaldi in Venice

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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.

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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

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.

Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival 2024

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

Max Emanuel Cenčić & Les Talens Lyriques

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

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.

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

Sandrine Piau & Les Talens Lyriques

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

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

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.

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Vivaldi in Venice

La Folle Journée de Nantes 2025

Parcourir les genres

Generation Maestras

Performing Arts

Classical

Opera

Vivaldi in Venice

Ophélie Gaillard and Sofi Jeannin

Max Emanuel Cenčić & Les Talens Lyriques

Núria Rial and Fahmi Alqhai

Sandrine Piau & Les Talens Lyriques

Handel's Messiah

The King's Bedtime

Three Motets by Lully