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Pascal Gély About about the performers tonight’s performers William Christie conductor William Christie’s pioneering work as harpsichordist, conductor, musicologist and teacher has led to a renewed interest in Baroque music in France. Born in America, he studied at Harvard and Yale Universities before moving to France in 1971, where he founded Les Arts Florissants eight years later. With the ensemble he has explored many neglected or forgotten works, both sacred and secular. As well as championing the French Baroque, ranging from Charpentier to Rameau, via Couperin, Mondonville, Campra and Montéclair, he is acclaimed in Monteverdi, Purcell, Handel, Mozart and Haydn. In the opera house, he has worked with many renowned directors, including Jean-Marie Villégier, Robert Carsen, Alfredo Arias, Jorge Lavelli, Graham 8 Vick, Adrian Noble, Andrei Serban and Luc Bondy. Last year Les Arts Florissants began a collaboration with the Teatro Real de Madrid, where the ensemble will perform all the Monteverdi operas over coming seasons. As a guest conductor William Christie regularly appears at Glyndebourne and with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as conducting Zurich Opera in works by Gluck, Rameau and Handel, and the Opéra National de Lyon in Così fan tutte and The Marriage of Figaro. He is also committed to the professional development of young artists, and many of the music directors of today’s Baroque ensembles began their careers with Les Arts Florissants. In 2002 he created Le Jardin des Voix, an academy for young singers in Caen, whose first three seasons generated considerable international interest. As a conductor and harpsichordist, William Christie has made over 70 recordings, many of which have received awards. William Christie acquired French nationality in 1995. He is an Officier Sylvain Godfroid dans l’Ordre de la Légion d’Honneur as well as Officier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He was elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in November 2008. Sophie Karthäuser soprano Soprano Sophie Karthäuser studied at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Noelle Barker. She has since been engaged by many leading ensembles, including the Academy of Ancient Music, Les Arts Florissants, La Petite Bande, Les Folies Françoises, Akademie für Alte Musik, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. She has sung with conductors such as Riccardo Chailly, William Christie, Thomas Hengelbrock, René Jacobs,
Sigiswald Kuijken, Louis Langrée, Kazushi Ono, Jérémie Rhorer, Marcello Viotti and Christian Zacharias. She will give concerts with Cercle de l’Harmonie, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and the Monteverdi Choir. In 2003, she won the audience prize in the Wigmore Hall’s Song Competition. She has appeared in recital at the Palais des Beaux-Arts (Brussels), La Monnaie, Flanders Opera, Opéra de Lille, Opéra de Nantes and at the Cologne Philharmonie. Forthcoming engagements include Wolf with Stephan Loges at Opéra National du Rhin and solo recitals in Waidhofen, at the Frankfurt Opera House and the Beaune Festival (France). Sophie Karthäuser sang her first Pamina (The Magic Flute) under Jacobs and Susanna (The Marriage of Figaro) under Christie. Further Mozart projects include Ilia at the Aix-en- Provence Festival, in Salzburg and Bremen as well as Sandrina (La finta giardiniera) in Vienna with Jacobs. Other opera projects include the title-role in Cavalli’s La Calisto under Christophe Rousset and a Rameau series with Christie in Aix-en-Provence. Further concerts will take her to venues such as the Musikverein, Carnegie Hall, Théâtre des Champ-Élysées and the Palais des Beaux-Arts. Her discography includes a solo album of Grétry arias, the complete Mozart songs, Haydn’s Die Schöpfung and Il Ritorno di Tobia and Handel’s Faramondo. Max Emanuel Cencic countertenor Max Emanuel Cencic is one of the leading countertenors of his generation. Initially a member of the Vienna Boys’ Choir, his career as a countertenor began in 2001. This year he makes his debut at La Monnaie, Brussels (Cavalli’s La Calisto), at the Bavarian State Opera (the title-role in Tamerlano) and at the Semperoper, about the performers Dresden (Giulio Cesare). He has also sung Ottone under Rinaldo Alessandrini in Bordeaux and given solo recitals in Vienna, Geneva, Tokyo, Hamburg and Avignon. Next spring he makes his debut with the Vienna State Opera and at the Teatro Real, Madrid. Max Emanuel Cencic regularly works with notable conductors such as William Christie, René Clemencic, Alan Curtis, Diego Fasolis, Michael Hofstetter, Eduardo López Banzo, Andrea Marcon, Günter Neuhold, Christophe Rousset and Jean- Christophe Spinosi. He is particularly in demand in the operas of Handel and Vivaldi, and has performed at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, for Scottish National Opera, at the Bayreuth Baroque Festival, at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, and in Bremen, Torino and St Gallen, among others. In concert, Max Emanuel Cencic has appeared at leading concert halls, including those in Lisbon, Cologne, Essen, Vienna, Potsdam, Wiesbaden, Cremona, London, Amsterdam, Milan, Avignon and Tokyo and in such festivals as the Haydn Festival in Eisenstadt, the Halle Handel Festival 9
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