Premiered in Vienna in 1761, Gluck’s Don Juan, or the Stone Guest’s Banquet, on a scenario by Gasparo Angiolini, left its mark on the history of music. From that moment ballet abandoned its status as a simple entertainment piece for an opera and became a genre in its own right, with a coherent and autonomous scenario. A year later Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de’ Calzabigi did battle again with the infernal forces in Orfeo ed Euridice, another revolution, this time aimed at theopera seria(here, Gluck used the final dance in Don Juan, “Dance of the Furies”).

Une symphonie imaginaire is a collection of excerpts from Rameau’s finest orchestral works, from the overture to Zaïs to the chaconne of Les Indes galantes, the “Orage” of Platée and “Danse des Sauvages” from Les Indes galantes. Recorded in 2003 (Deutsche Grammophon) by the Musiciens du Louvre, this programme was played on tour in Asia in 2013. Ovationed from Shanghai to Bandung, in Jakarta, Hong-Kong and Seoul, it will now be presented at the Auditorium.

In co-direction with the Festival d’Ambronay / Centre culturel de rencontre d’Ambronay.