Opera
David et Jonathas
By Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Les Arts Florissants
An Aix-en-Provence Festival production
Conducted by William Christie
Directed by Andreas Homoki
Featuring Charpentier’s stately choruses, dances, and airs, this Baroque gem unfolds with Christie’s trademark rhetorical flair. Melodies heave and sigh with gossamer elegance, transforming an Old Testament parable into a ravishing musical account of incorruptible love, undying to the end.
Scene design by Paul Zoller
Costume design by Gideon Davey
Lighting design by Franck Evin
David: Pascal Charbonneau
Jonathas: Ana Quintans
Saul: Neal Davies
Archis: Fréderic Caton
Joabel: Kresimir Spicer
La Pythonisse: Dominique Visse
Co-produced by Opéra Comique and Théâtre de Caen in association
with Les Arts Florissants with the support of The Selz
Foundation
Leadership support
provided by
Ronald P. Stanton and The Delancey Foundation
Major
support provided by Aashish & Dinyar Devitre
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation with The Evelyn Sharp Foundation
and Mary Sharp Cronson
Conductor William Christie has near-singlehandedly renewed appreciation of 17th- and 18th-century French repertoire. Christie surveys his considerable career at BAM since his first appearance with Atys in 1989.
William Christie’s work has led to a renewed appreciation of French Baroque repertoire.
Les Arts Florissants is one of the most renowned early-music groups in the world.