Lully – Cadmus & Hermione « Le Poème Harmonique

Lully – Cadmus & Hermione

“Diamond” by Opéra Magazine
“Choc” from Classica

In 1672, Louis XIV granted Lully the Privilege of the Royal Academy of Music, which was still in its infancy. In 1673, he gave his first lyric tragedy, Cadmus et Hermione, which was a fantastic success.

As in his previous works – divertissements, ballets de cour and comédies-ballets – Lully brought a sparkle to the voices and orchestra, multiplying the exceptional pieces that pleased the court. But with the help of librettist Philippe Quinault, he introduced the dramatic force of French tragedy into an exclusively musical work, and the audience was bewitched by the heroic loves so sumptuously depicted. The first tragic heroes, the first great love duets, the first tears from the audience: the lyric tragedy, this opera in the French style, was born, and thanks to it, until his death in 1687, Lully would never cease to enchant… and to be performed until the Revolution.

In 2008, Vincent Dumestre brilliantly revived this seminal work. Now he’s working on it again, drawing on a new decade of love for this music, the experience gained by his musicians, and the desire to record it for our CD collection. So let’s celebrate the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Royal Academy of Music with his first masterpiece!

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Cast :

Thomas Dolié, Cadmus
Adèle Charvet, Hermione
Eva Zaïcik, Charite, Melisse
Lisandro Abadie, Arbas, Pan
Nicholas Scott, La Nourrice, Dieu Champêtre
Virgile Ancely, Draco, Mars
Guilhem Worms, The Great Sacrificer, Jupiter
Marine Lafdal-Franc, Pallas, Aglante, L’Hymen, Palès
Enguerrand De Hys, The Sun, First Prince Tirien
Benoit-Joseph Meier, First African, Envy
Kaëlig Boché, Second Africain, Echion
Brenda Poupard, Love, Juno
Olivier Fichet, Second Prince Tirien
Agathe Boudet, Venus, Nymph

Ensemble Aedes
Agathe Boudet (solo), Mathilde Monfray, Clémence Olivier, Amandine Trenc, sopranos
Laia Cortés Calafelle (solo), Alix Leparoux, Clémence Faber, Marie Pouchelon, altos
Florent Thioux (solo), Camillo Angarita, Alban Dufourt, Fabrice Foison (solo), tenors
Romain Bazola, Frédéric Bourreau, Sorin Dumitrascu, Vlad Crosman, Pascal Gourgand, basses
Mathieu Romano, conductor

Le Poème Harmonique
Vincent Dumestre, conductor

Jasmine Eudeline (solo), Catherine Ambach, Myriam Mahnane, Camille Aubret, Sophie De Bardonneche, Rebecca Gormezano, violin dessus
Sophie Iwamura, Tiphaine Coquempot, Lika Laloum, treble violins
Pierre Vallet, Delphine Millour, Maialen Loth, violin tailles
Andreas Linos, Mathias Ferre, violin fifths
Cyril Poulet, Lucas Peres, Julien Barre, Édouard Catalan, Keiko Gomi, violin basses
Elsa Frank, Petra Ambrosi, oboes, flutes
Pierre Boragno, bagpipes, oboe, flutes
Jérémie Papasergio, Isaure Lavergne, bassoons, flutes
Gilles Rapin, trumpet
Samuel Domergue, percussion
Pablo Zapico, Pierre Rinderknecht, theorbo, guitars
Camille Delaforge, harpsichord, vocal coach