Since 2011, Musiques en fête has become the unmissable event at the beginning of the summer, the kick-off to the Chorégies d'Orange season! A real family of artists from different worlds and countries has been created, a loyal troupe that takes pleasure in meeting again and that grows with each edition.
In 2022 Musiques en fête celebrates love in music! with the 8,000 spectators at the Théâtre Antique in Orange for an amazing show ! Opera, operetta, musical comedy, classical music, film music, dance, as well as the greatest hits of French song... Through an eclectic programme, a tribute to love and to all music will be paid by prestigious soloists and more than 150 orchestral musicians and choral artists.
Conductors | Didier Benetti, Luciano Acocella
Performers | Renaud Capucon, Pretty Yende, Héloïse Mas, Philippe Jaroussky, René Barbera, Marcelo Puente, Florian Laconi, Kevin Amiel, Félicien Brut, Erminie Blondel, Edgar Moreau
Orchestre national de Cannes
The Choir of Opera Monte Carlo
Program
Georges Bizet
Overture from Carmen
Gaetano Donizetti
"Salut à la France" from La Fille du regiment
Georges Bizet
“Habanera” from Carmen
Nino Rota
“Thème de l'amour” from Le Parrain
Christoph Willibald Gluck
“Che faro senza Euridice” from Orfeo ed Euridice
Giacomo Puccini
“Nessun dorma” from Turandot
Gaetano Donizetti
“Una furtiva lagrima” from L'Elisir d'amore
Luigi Denza
"Funiculi, funicula"
Enrique Granados / Consuelo Velazquez
"Bésame mucho"
Vincent Scotto
"L'amour est un bouquet de violettes"
Eduardo Di Capua
"O sole mio"
Gus Viseur
"Flambée montalbanaise"
Giacomo Puccini
“Mi chiamano Mimi” from La Bohème
Johannes Brahms
Double concerto for violin and cello in A minor, Op. 102, 3rd movement
Pierre Genisson
"Klezmer Tanz"