FULL DANZA Froville 2018 Isabelle Druet
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Danza
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Froville, France
- Recorded: June 23, 2018
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Isabelle Druet
- Conductor: Vincent Dumestre
- Orchestra: Le Poème Harmonique
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Festival de Froville
- Date Published: 2018
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The 17th century in France was a century of dance. Would this still have been the case without the influence of Spain? When he married the Spanish Infanta Anne of Austria, Louis XIII not only infused the royal line with Spanish blood through his son Louis XIV, he also brought folias, sarabandas, españolas and españoletas north of the Pyrenees. Illustrious strolling players, the two monarchs ushered in a golden age of ballet in which Spanish dances and motives had a role to play. When Briceño wasn’t asked to produce an aria, Le Bailly was called on to invent a Locura for the Ballet de la Folie. Guest musicians or characters in royal spectacles, the Spanish took their place in the salons of the day. The city, in imitation of the court, demanded its share of this Spanish magic, which included vocal and instrumental music, and contemporary concerts might feature the tono humano rather than the air de cour or the guitar rather than the lute. With his audiences under the spell of Spanish poet Calderón, composer Moulinié swallowed his French pride and tried his hand at the style then in vogue with El baxtel esta en la playa.
Served by the ardour of its songs and the witticisms innate to its language, the Spanish influence was soon being felt in large swathes of the French musical arts. From the palace to the street, through a multitude of genres and imaginary scenes, the same spirit haunted its sounds: the beat of the dance, relentless like the Andalusian sun, bewitching like madness.