2024-01-22 15:46:14
Magnificent costumes, magnificent scenes and a large array of premium voices: the operas at the court of Louis XIV can still be seen today as a shining example of generous cultural sponsorship. Just the visuals at the beginning of Jean-Baptiste Lullys Atys The audience must have been thrown off their feet. Not only God Chronos and his entourage grace the prelude; Also there is the goddess Flora with her entourage of nymphs, a theater muse with eight ancient heroes and the winged Iris with a rainbow. There is, of course, no trace of this pomp and circumstance in the concert hall: the resonances, festival for early music, have with Lullys Tragedy in music started – naturally without wasting an equipment budget.
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