Rameau - Les Boreades 'Un horizon serein'. Bonney

Jean-Philippe Rameau's last opera - Les Boréades, 1763.

Act 1
7 'Un horizon serein', Barbara Bonney aria
8 'Contradanse en rondeau', dance

Alphise, Queen of Bactriana -- Barbara Bonney, soprano
Abaris, in love with Alphisa -- Paul Agnew, high tenor, haut-contre
Calisis -- Toby Spence, tenor
Borilee -- Stephane Degout. Both men are of the line of Boreas and suitors to Alphisa .
Borée, God of the North Wind -- Laurent Naouri
Adamas,High Priest of Apollo and Apollon, God of Light -- Nicolas Rivenq
Sémire, Confidante of Queen Alphise -- Anna-Maria Panzarella
Une nymphe and Polymnia, Muse of Mime and Song -- Jaël Azzaretti
Opera National de Paris
La La La Human Steps
Les Arts Florissants. Musical Director -- William Christie
Choreography -- Edouard Lock. Stage Director -- Robert Carsen.

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[davehshs]

@nightwisper Thanks. I'm not a fashion maven. But why??? What the hell was the director thinking? Chanel's sober '50s bear absolutely no discernible relationship to the mythological setting of the opera. It's just misplaced "cleverness" and "originality."

[nightwisper]

@davehshs the costumes are suppose to reflect chanel's sober clothes of the 50's

[charlesbonares]

a masterpiece -- sometimes better than Mozart operas

[davehshs]

Where did the stage director get these "period" costumes -- from late 19th-century Russia, perhaps??