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4 unusual facts about Les Boréades


Les Boréades

The work was in rehearsal in 1763 at the Paris Opéra, probably for a private performance at the court at Choisy.

It owes its modern revival to the conductor John Eliot Gardiner, who gave a concert version of the piece (in which Trevor Pinnock played continuo) at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, on 14 April 1974, for which he had prepared the orchestral material from the original manuscripts over the preceding year.

The first known performance of the work was in 1770 in a concert performance at Lille.

Ricardo Araujo

In 2003, he became William Christie's assistant during the Paris National Opera creation of J.P. Rameau's Boréades and then, Armin Jordan's with a new interpretation of Mozart Così fan tutte.



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