Organization

Singer

Bass

Guilhem Worms

Mars

Arcas

Conductor

Christophe Rousset

Tenor

Mathias Vidal

Thésée

Soprano

Karine Deshayes

Médée

Deborah Cachet

Aegle

Bénédicte Tauran

Minerve

Marie Lys

Cleone

Thaïs Raï-Westphal

Dorine

Countertenor

Robert Getchell

Bacchus

Fabien Hyon

Un Plaisir

Baritone

Philippe Estèphe

Égée

Chorus master

Thibaut Lenaerts

Others

Chœur de Chambre de Namur

Orchestra

Les Talens Lyriques

Bozar

Lully: Thésée - Les Talens Lyriques

Brussels

Belgium

Henry Le Boeuf Zaal

Lully: Thésée - Les Talens Lyriques: Thésée Lully

Public

Theseus

Approved

THÉSÉE
Tragédie lyrique in a prologue and 5 acts
Composer: Jean-Baptiste Lully
Libretto: Philippe Quinault
First performed: Académie royale de musique, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, before Louis XIV, 3 February 1675

Premier air pour l’entrée triomphale de Thésée, et Chœur
Second air
Duo des deux Vieillards athéniens : Pour le peu de bon temps

Jean-Baptiste Lully was a composer who dominated musical life at the court of Louis XIV. With Thésée he wrote one of his greatest successes. Although the opera is named after the heroic killer of the Minotaur, the focus is rather on Médée, the tragic heroine who murdered her children in revenge for her husband's infidelity. When she fled to the court of Aegeus after this atrocity, she fell madly in love with Thésée, who did not reciprocate her love. Lully managed to musically translate the feelings of the protagonists in an exceptional way. Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques are coming to Brussels with a strong cast, including Karine Deshayes as an incomparable Médée, and unveil this rarely performed masterpiece.

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