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Les Talens Lyriques Unveils 2024-25 Season
By David SalazarLes Talens Lyriques, led by Christophe Rousset, has announced its 2024-25 season.
Here is a rundown of the season.
The ensemble heads to the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival to present “Ifigenia in Aulide” with Jasmin Delfs, Max Emanuel Cencic, Dennis Orellana, Olena Leser, Nicolò Balducci, and Daniel Giulianini. Giorgina Germanou directs.
Performance Dates: Sept. 5-15, 2024
Then comes “Aroma di Roma,” also at the Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, featuring soprano Sandrine Piauu and works by Händel, Scarlatti, and de Montéclair.
Performance Dates: Sept. 8, 2024
And the final performance at Bayreuth will be “Oper in Hamburg,” featuring music by Händel, Mattheson, Telemann, and Keiser. Anna Prohaska is the soloist.
Performance Dates: Sept. 14, 2024
The company then heads to the Ambronay Festival to present music by Bach featuring Paul Figuier.
Performance Dates: Oct. 4, 2024
Ambroisine Bré and Nahuel di Pierro will present “Les Laurier de Händel” at the Château de Chantilly.
Performance Dates: Oct. 12, 2024
Also in Chantilly, Ambroisine Bré, Nahuel di Pierro, and Petr Nekoranec will present works by Rameau and Royer.
Performance Dates: Oct. 13, 2024
Then comes a North American tour across such cities as San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Tuscon, Washington D.C., and Montréal featuring works by Lully, de Montéclair, Couperin, and Lambert, among others. Ambroisine Bree is the soloist.
Performance Dates: Nov. 12 – 20, 2024
The Bach program from Ambronay will then head to Paris to the Salle Cortot with Zoltan Darago as the soloist.
Performance Dates: Dec. 3, 2024
Then comes Händel’s “Orlando” in Paris with a cast starring Katarina Bradic, Siobhan Stagg, Elizabeth DeShong, Giulia Semenzato, and Riccardo Novaro. Jeanne Desoubeaux directs.
Performance Dates: Jan. 23 – Feb. 2, 2025
Elizabeth DeShong, Claudia Pavone, Nils Wanderer, Key’mon Murrah, Rose Naggar-Tremblay, William Shelton, Edwin Fardini, and Adrien Fournaison lead “Giulio Cesare.” Damiano Michieletto directs the production in Toulouse.
Performance Dates: Feb. 21 – March 2, 2025
Laurent Pelly directs “L’Opera Seria” at La Scala starring Pietro Spagnoli, Mattia Olivieri, Giovanni Sala, Julie Fuchs, Andrea Carroll, and Alessio Arduini, among others.
Performance Dates: March 23 – April 9, 2025
Then the ensemble and Rousset embark on a tour through Grenoble, Lucerne, Aix-en-Provence, Paris, and Metz with a Bach program featuring Anna El Khashem, Mari Asvik, Nich Pritchard, and Edwin Crossley Mercer.
Performance Dates: April 16-26, 2025
Lysandre Châlon leads a program in Paris called “Louis XIV at Dusk.”
Performance Dates: April 28, 2025
Next up are two performances of “Mitridate” in La Scala and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The opera stars Sergey Romanovsky, Jessica Pratt, Olga Bezsmertna, Rose Naggar-Tremblay, Maria Kokareva, Alasdair Kent, and Nina Van Essen.
Performance Dates: May 18 & 25, 2025
Closing out the season is Lully’s “Prosperine” at Versailles and the Theater an der Wien. The opera stars Véronique Gens, Marie Lys, Ambroisine Bré, and Nick Pritchard, among others.
Performance Dates: June 15 & 17, 2025
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