Baroque Masterworks: Rameau - Pygmalion

Thursday August 14/2008
8:00 pm
Chan Shun Concert Hall

Presented by Early Music Vancouver and the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, in collaboration with Festival Vancouver and l'Académie Baroque de Montréal.

Suzie LeBlanc, soprano (pictured left)
Nathalie Paulin, soprano
Catherine Webster, soprano
Matthew White, alto
Colin Balzer, tenor
Laurence Wiliford, tenor
Tyler Duncan, baritone

 

Early Music Vancouver’s Baroque Festival Orchestra
Alexander Weimann, music co-director, conductor and harpsichord/organ
Marc Destrubé, music co-director, concertmaster and violin
Marie-Nathalie Lacoursière, choreography & dance

Pygmalion - the acte de ballet by Jean Philippe Rameau and music of Marc-Antoine Charpentier - will delight audiences in this performance featuring music and dance from the French Baroque.

 

Pygmalion was first performed at the Opéra in Paris in 1748 and is generally regarded as the best of Rameau's one-act pieces. The story is based on the myth in which the sculptor Pygmalion falls in love with a statue of a beautiful woman he has carved.

 

This presentation is made possible through the generous assistance of the Chan Endowment Fund of the University of British Columbia, the Drance Family Fund, and several anonymous donors.

 

 

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