Aux Arts

In 2015 our most recent Charpentier recording to date, La Descente dOrphée aux Enfers with young soloists and the Boston Early Music Festival Chamber Ensemble, received the Grammy Award for the »Best Opera Production« of the preceding year and Gramophones »Editors Choice.« Our new CD featuring two »mini-operas« by Charpentier again offers enthralling performances of this court music of charming dance character and elegance. In contrast to Charpentiers other operas, Les Plaisirs de Versailles is directly associated with Louis XIV.

While Freemasonry's secrecy has always aroused distrust, its enlightened principles and belief in virtue, liberty, fraternity, and equality have attracted large numbers of intellectuals and artists; one of its most famous adherents was Mozart. However, his opera The Magic Flute was not the first to be inspired by its teachings but was preceded in 1749 by Rameau's Zoroastre. Its initial reception was so cool that Rameau and his librettist, Louis de Cahusac (a prominent Mason) undertook extensive revisions. The new version was produced–by coincidence or fate?–in 1756, the year of Mozart's birth, and became a great success.

Le 31 octobre 1956, Claude Durix franchit pour la première fois la porte monumentale du Manpuku-ji près de Kyoto, maison-mère de la branche Obaku du Zen. Il est accueilli par le maître du monastère, Sengoku Roshi, qui lui donne en même temps son amitié et son enseignement. …

Le 31 octobre 1956, Claude Durix franchit pour la première fois la porte monumentale du Manpuku-ji près de Kyoto, maison-mère de la branche Obaku du Zen. Il est accueilli par le maître du monastère, Sengoku Roshi, qui lui donne en même temps son amitié et son enseignement. …