The Paris-based chamber ensemble will perform "The Sound of Music in Versailles" at The Colburn School’s Zipper Hall.

(Los Angeles) October 15, 2024 — On November 13, LA Opera will present the Paris-based chamber ensemble Les Talens Lyriques in a concert under the baton of founder and conductor Christophe Rousset, taking place in the intimate environment of Zipper Hall. The program, entitled "The Sound of Music in Versailles," is a tribute to the flourishing sound worlds of the master composers of the French Baroque era, created for the royal courts of King Louis XIV and XV.

"The Sound of Music in Versailles" will showcase music by Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632-1687) and François Couperin (1668-1733), as well as the lesser known Michel Lambert (c. 1610-1696) and Michel Pignolet de Montéclair (1667-1737).

Mezzo-soprano Amboisine Bré will be the featured vocal soloist. In addition to Mr. Rousset at the harpsichord, the instrumentalists will be violinist Gilone Gaubert violinist Benjamin Chénier and cellist Emmanuel Jacques.

Performance and Ticket Info
Les Talens Lyriques will perform at 7:30pm on Wednesday, November 9, at the Colburn School's Zipper Concert Hall (located at 200 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90012).

A limited number of tickets are on sale now, beginning at $54. Tickets can be purchased online at LAOpera.org, by phone at 213.972.8001, or in person at the LA Opera box office at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 N. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles CA 90012). For disability access, call 213.972.0777 or email LAOpera@LAOpera.org.

More information, including the complete concert repertoire for the evening, is available at LAOpera.org/Talens.

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About Les Talens Lyriques
Championing a broad vocal and instrumental repertoire ranging from early Baroque to the beginnings of Romanticism, the musicians of Les Talens Lyriques aim to throw light on the great masterpieces of musical history, while providing perspective by presenting rarer or little known works that are important as missing links in the European musical heritage. This musicological and editorial work, which contributes to their renown, is a priority for the ensemble.

Les Talens Lyriques takes their name from the subtitle of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s 1739 opera Les Fêtes d’Hébé. Their repertoire includes works by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Landi, Handel, Lully, Desmarest, Mondonville, Cimarosa, Traetta, Jommelli, Martin y Soler, Mozart, Salieri, Rameau, Gluck, Beethoven, Cherubini, García, Berlioz, Massenet, Gounod, Saint-Saëns and others.

Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques appear throughout Europe, with performances at the Opéra National de Paris, Opéra-Comique, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Philharmonie de Paris, Opéra Royal de Versailles, Dutch National Opera, Amsterdam Concertgebouw, Lausanne Opéra, Teatro Real Madrid, Vienna State Opera, Theater an der Wien, Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie in Brussels, London’s Wigmore Hall and Barbican Centre, among others, as well as on tour elsewhere throughout the world.

Learn more at LesTalensLyriques.com.

About Christophe Rousset
The founder of the ensemble Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset is an internationally recognised harpsichordist and conductor inspired by a passion for the rediscovery of the European musical heritage. His harpsichord studies with Huguette Dreyfus at the Schola Cantorum in Paris, then with Bob van Asperen at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, followed by his 1991 creation of Les Talens Lyriques, have made him an authority on the richness and diversity of the Baroque, Classical and pre-Romantic repertoires.

He continues to pursue an active career as a harpsichordist and chamber musician, playing and recording on some of the world’s finest period instruments. His recordings of the harpsichord works of Louis and François Couperin, Rameau, D’Anglebert, Royer, Duphly, Forqueray, Balbastre and Scarlatti, and those devoted to J. S. Bach are regarded as benchmarks.

About LA Opera
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In addition to its mainstage performances at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, the company explores unusual repertoire each season through the LA Opera Off Grand initiative, featuring performances in a variety of venues throughout Los Angeles. The LA Opera Connects initiative offers a robust variety of educational programming and community engagement offerings that reaches people throughout every corner of Los Angeles County. Learn more at LAOpera.org.

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Presentation made possible by generous support from
Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, GRoW @ Annenberg

Additional underwriting support provided by
Mr. Robert Finnerty and Mr. Richard Cullen

With special appreciation to
Régina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten

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