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Les arts florissants (opera)

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The vocal forces usually employed by Marie de Lorraine (Hitchcock suggests there were never more than fourteen singers at a time, and usually fewer) would otherwise have been too small to make this proliferation of choruses feasible. In Charpentier's manuscript, the various vocal lines of each chorus
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are labelled with the names of the seven soloists, which would seem to confirm that they were required to double as both choruses. See Hitchcock and Charpentier.
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in nature and draws on aspects of mythological and natural symbolism familiar to 17th-century audiences to add depth to a superficially simple plot.
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H.480, Teresa Wakim, Jesse Blumberg, Virginia Warnken, Boston early Music Festival Vocal & Chamber Ensembles /
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Patricia M. Ranum: "The 'Guise Music': some thumbnail sketches of the members of Mlle de Guise's ensemble",
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concerns the eponymous Arts, shown flourishing under the beneficent and peaceful reign of
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Gaétan Jarry, Ensemble Marguerite Louise. CD Château de Versailles spectacles 2017/2018.
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Marc-Antoine Charpentier, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Oxford University press 2001. Also in
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to intervene on her behalf. Discord and his followers are chased back into
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The manuscript score also calls for two choruses in the form of a
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by a hail of thunderbolts, and Peace holds sway once more.
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The opera is scored for seven solo voices, five-part
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Index

Chamber opera
Marc-Antoine Charpentier

Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise
chamber opera
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
1685
Marie de Lorraine, Duchess of Guise
libretto
allegorical
opera
Louis XIV
Furies
Jupiter
Hades
chorus
flutes
recorders
viols
basso continuo
Voice type
soprano
haute-contre
mezzo-soprano
bass
baritone
William Christie
Les Arts Florissants
Harmonia Mundi
Les Plaisirs de Versailles

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