Holland Baroque and Julie Roset
Holland Baroque has already worked successfully several times with the French coloratura soprano Julie Roset. Today in the Recital Hall of the Royal Concertgebouw, they celebrate two centuries of French singing, from Rameau and Lully to Fauré.
Holland Baroque and Julie Roset
Holland Baroque and Julie Roset
Coloratura soprano Julie Roset is one of the youngest and brightest stars in the international singing sky. Those are the words of Holland Baroque, the ensemble that has successfully collaborated with her on several occasions. Roset recently shone on their album Brabant 1653 . The French Roset plays major opera roles, but also participates in all kinds of early music projects. In doing so, she literally and figuratively reaches "hypnotic heights," wrote The New York Times . Bachtrack praised her "superior timbre and smooth dexterity."
Rameau, Fauré, Lully, Delibes and Charpentier
Holland Baroque celebrates two centuries of French singing. In eighteenth-century Paris it was a fierce point of contention: who could sing better, the Italians or the French? Of course it was a draw. French singing is in no way inferior to the bel canto of the Italians. You will hear that today in a concert in which Jean-Philippe Rameau is central. This incomparable opera reformer drew a direct line to Romanticism with his daring orchestral palette. For example, Gabriel Fauré and Léo Delibes join their baroque colleagues in this program as a matter of course. In addition, music by Rameau's brilliant predecessors Lully and Charpentier can also be heard.