Cal Performances presents Les Arts Florissants, performing Charpentier's Actéon and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
Zellerbach Hall Auditorium
U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94305 USA
8:00 PM, Thursday, November 9, 2017

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[7 PM Pre-performance Talk with musicologist Victor Gavenda]

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643–1704): Actéon, H.481 (1685)

• Libretto
• Score

Dramatis Personae

• Lea Desandre: mezzo-soprano vox, as Junon
• Renato Dolcini: baritone vox, as Chasseur
• Elodie Fonnard: soprano vox, as Diane
• Maud Gnidzaz: soprano vox, as Hyale
• Rachel Redmond: soprano vox, as Arthébuze
• Virginie Thomas: soprano vox, as Daphné
• Reinoud Van Mechelen: tenor vox, as Actéon

[8:04 PM lights down, announcements, band out]

1. [8:07 PM] Ouverture
    
   Scène Première: dans la vallée de Gargaphie
2. [8:08 PM] Chœur de Chasseurs
3. [8:09 PM] Air d'Actéon
4. [8:10 PM] Duo de Chasseurs et Chœur de Chasseurs
    
   Scène Seconde: Diane, Arethuze, Daphné, Hyale et Chœur des Nimphes de Diane
5. [8:12 PM] Air de Diane et Chœur de Nymphes
6. [8:13 PM] Duo de Daphné et Hyalé
7. [8:17 PM] Air d'Aréthuse et Chœur de Nymphes
    
   Scène Troisième: Actéon, Diane, Aréthuze, Daphné, Hyale et Chœur des Nimphes
8. [8:20 PM] Recitatif et Air d'Actéon
9. [8:24 PM] Duo de Diane et Actéon
10. [8:m PM] Chœur de Nymphes
     
    Scène Quatrième: Actéon seu
11. [8:27 PM] Recitatif d'Actéon
12. [8:29 PM] Plainte
     
    Scène Cinquième: Chœur des Chasseurs, Actéon en Cerf
13. [8:33 PM] Chœur de Chasseurs
     
    Scène Sixième: Junon, Chœur de Chasseurs
14. [8:34 PM] Air de Junon et Chœur de Chasseurs
15. [8:40 PM] Chœur de Chasseurs
    [set ends 8:42 PM; bows and applause, then all off after a few minutes]

Henry Purcell (1659–1695): Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (1688); libretto by Nahum Tate (1652-1715)

• Libretto
• Libretto (alt source)
• Score (german)

Dramatis Personae

• Lea Desandre: mezzo-soprano vox, as Dido, Queen of Carthage
• Renato Dolcini: baritone vox, as Aeneas, a Trojan prince
• Elodie Fonnard: soprano vox, as second woman
• Maud Gnidzaz: soprano vox, as first witch
• Rachel Redmond: soprano vox, as Belinda, Dido's confidante
• Virginie Thomas: soprano vox, as second witch
• Carlo Vistoli: countertenor vox, as Sorceress
• Reinoud Van Mechelen: tenor vox, as Spirit, in the form of Mercury, and Sailor
• Company: Dido's train, Aeneas' train, Fairies, Sailors

[9:04 PM lights down, performers out]

1. [9:05 PM] Overture
    
   Act I
2. [9:07 PM] Solo and Chorus: Shake the Cloud
3. [9:08 PM] Dido: Ah! Belinda
4. [9:m PM] Recitative: Grief Increases
5. [9:13 PM] Chorus: When Monarchs Unite
6. [9:m PM] Recitative: Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring
7. [9:m PM] Duet and Chorus: Fear No Danger
8. [9:m PM] Recitative: See Your Royal Guest
9. [9:17 PM] Chorus: Cupid Only Throws the Dart
10. [9:17 PM] Recitative: If Not for Mine
11. [9:18 PM] Air: Persue Thy Conquest
12. [9:19 PM] Chorus: To the Hills and the Vales
13. [9:20 PM] The Triumphing Dance
     
    Act II
14. [9:m PM] Prelude for the Witches
15. [9:21 PM] Chorus: Harm's Our Delight
16. [9:m PM] Recitative: The Queen of Carthage
17. [9:m PM] Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho!
18. [9:m PM] Recitative: Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun
19. [9:m PM] Chorus: Ho! Ho! Ho!
20. [9:m PM] Duet: But, Ere we This Perform
21. [9:m PM] Chorus: In Our Deep Vaulted Cell
22. [9:m PM] Echo Dance of Furies
23. [9:m PM] Ritornelle
24. [9:28 PM] Song and Chorus: Thanks to These Lonesome Vales
25. [9:32 PM] Song: Oft She Visits
26. [9:m PM] Recitative: Behold, Upon My Bended Spear
27. [9:34 PM] Song and Chorus: Haste to Town
28. [9:35 PM] Recitative: Stay, Prince
     
    Act III
29. [9:38 PM] Prelude, Song and Chorus: Come Away, Fellow Sailors
30. [9:m PM] The Sailors' Dance
31. [9:40 PM] Recitative: See the Flags
32. [9:m PM] Song: Our Next Motion Must Be to Storm
33. [9:m PM] Chorus: Destruction's Our Delight
34. [9:m PM] The Witches' Dance
35. [9:44 PM] Recitative: Your Counsel
36. [9:m PM] Recitative: But Death, Alas!
37. [9:m PM] Chorus: Great Minds
38. [9:49 PM] Recitative: Thy Hand, Belinda
39. [9:m PM] Song: When I am Laid in Earth
40. [9:m PM] With Drooping Wings
    [show ends 9:55 PM; applause, bows, more applause, more bows; all off, eventually…]

• Paul Agnew, associate music director, associate conductor
• William Christie: director;
• Sophie de Bardonnèche: viola;
• Lea Desandre: mezzo-soprano vox;
• Renato Dolcini: baritone vox;
• Thomas Dunford: lute, theorboro;
• Pier Luigi Fabretti: oboe;
• Elodie Fonnard: soprano vox;
• Maud Gnidzaz: soprano vox;
• Théotime Langlois de swarte: baroque violin;
• Rachel Redmond: soprano vox;
• Emmanuel Resche: baroque violin;
• Virginie Thomas: soprano vox;
• Alix Verzier: cello;
• Carlo Vistoli: countertenor vox;
• Reinoud Van Mechelen: tenor vox;

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