ANDRÉ CARDINAL DESTOUCHES AND MICHEL RICHARD DELALANDE OPERA-BALLET LES ÉLÉMENS (1721)
Saturday 22 March 2025, 18:00-19:30
Grand Renaissance Hall of the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania (Katedros Square 4, Vilnius)
ANDRÉ CARDINAL DESTOUCHES AND MICHEL RICHARD DELALANDE OPERA-BALLET LES ÉLÉMENS (1721)
Les Élémens or Ballet des élemens is an opera-ballet by French composers André Cardinal Destouches and Michel Richard Delalande. The libretto was written by Pierre-Charles Roy. The opera was first performed at the Tuileries, Paris on 31 December 1721, with the 11-year-old Louis XV participating in the dancing.
Participants:
Students and teachers from higher music schools in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Estonia, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway and Poland.
Fabio Bonizzoni (Italy) – musical director
Rūta Vox (Lithuania) – artistic director
Elisabeth Svarstad (Norway) – choreographer
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Scenographers: Haroldas Kuliešius, Agnė Vinčaitė, Ieva Vaičiulytė, Vaiva Paulauskaitė, Viktoriia Khomovnenko
Singers
Justina Mykolaitytė – Venus, Leukosi, Emilia
Ervinas Jasevičius – Destiny, Neptune, Ixion, Valero
Karolina Parmas – Arion, Juno
Vilius Tumalavičius – Mercury
Gabrielė Andrulytė – Amour, Nymph
Adrijana Balsytė – Nymph
Vasilisa Agarkova – Nymph
Dancers
Valeriia Khylko (Norway)
Maia Roman (Norway)
Benjamin Hovdenak (Norway)
International Baroque Orchestra „L’Air“
Judyta Tupczyńska (Poland) – first violin and leader
Jana Zariņa (Latvia) – basso continuo (harpsichord)
Lecturers: lekt. dr. Rūta Vox (Vosyliūtė), lekt. Jūratė Širvytė-Rukštelė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), doc. Giedrė Brazytė (Vilnius Academy of Arts)
Entrance free. Pre-registration is required by clicking on this link.
The event is part of the project “LMTA Early Music Week 2025” and Eleventh International Marco Scacchi Early Music Festival.
More information about “LMTA Early Music Week 2025” here.
Organizer: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Partners: Guido Cantelli Conservatory of Music (Italy), Royal Conservatoire The Hague (Netherlands), Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (Belgium), University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (Austria), University of Music Franz Liszt Weimar (Germany), Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Norway), The Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz University of Music in Lodz (Poland), The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice (Poland), Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music (Latvia), Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre (Estonia), National museum Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, French Institute in Lithuania, Association „Gilles Binchois“, Vilnius Academy of Arts.