William Lincoln Christie (born December 19, 1944 in Buffalo, New York) is t… Read Full Bio ↴William Lincoln Christie (born December 19, 1944 in Buffalo, New York) is the founder and director of Les Arts Florissants.
Christie studied art history at Harvard University (where he was briefly assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club) and music at Yale University. He moved to France in 1971, where he became known for his interpretations of Baroque music, particularly French Baroque music, working with René Jacobs and others.
In 1979 he founded Les Arts Florissants, named after the opera of the same name by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, which was to be its first fully-staged production. Major recognition came in 1987 with the production of Lully's Atys at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Christie has also presented and recorded works by André Campra, François Couperin, and Jean-Philippe Rameau.
He was professor at the Paris Conservatoire from 1982 to 1995, and maintains an active role in pedagogy by participating in masterclasses and academies. In 2002 he founded Le Jardin des Voix, a biennial academy for young singers in Caen. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1993, and is an Officer in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Christie has long been resident in France[1], and he was granted French citizenship in 1995.
Christie has expanded beyond his group's core French repertoire, performing Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He has been guest conductor at the Glyndebourne Festival, and productions for Zurich Opera and the Opera de Lyon. Since 2002 he has appeared regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic.
In 2008 he brought "Les Arts Florissants" to Madrid's Teatro Real to perform Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, a co-production with La Fenice, Venice.
Christie studied art history at Harvard University (where he was briefly assistant conductor of the Harvard Glee Club) and music at Yale University. He moved to France in 1971, where he became known for his interpretations of Baroque music, particularly French Baroque music, working with René Jacobs and others.
In 1979 he founded Les Arts Florissants, named after the opera of the same name by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, which was to be its first fully-staged production. Major recognition came in 1987 with the production of Lully's Atys at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Christie has also presented and recorded works by André Campra, François Couperin, and Jean-Philippe Rameau.
He was professor at the Paris Conservatoire from 1982 to 1995, and maintains an active role in pedagogy by participating in masterclasses and academies. In 2002 he founded Le Jardin des Voix, a biennial academy for young singers in Caen. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur in 1993, and is an Officer in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Christie has long been resident in France[1], and he was granted French citizenship in 1995.
Christie has expanded beyond his group's core French repertoire, performing Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He has been guest conductor at the Glyndebourne Festival, and productions for Zurich Opera and the Opera de Lyon. Since 2002 he has appeared regularly with the Berlin Philharmonic.
In 2008 he brought "Les Arts Florissants" to Madrid's Teatro Real to perform Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, a co-production with La Fenice, Venice.
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Les Indes galantes: "Tendre Amour"
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Hervé Dupré
Les prochains jours noirs, très noirs qui attendent l'humanité, je sais que je pourrai regarder ou me souvenir qu'il existe cela : cette communion incroyable dans cette famille des Arts Florissants, cette musique si délicate, cette ambiance, cet amour commun du sensible au plus haut niveau. Cela sauve l'âme en effet, que cette beauté existe, si rare mais oui elle existe ! Et cela suffit presque à oublier le reste, bravo et merci merci
Krist
magnifiquement dit ! la musique , celle-ci , pansement des sorts funestes ...
Thomas Davis
The top comment on a baroque music video is always extremely unhinged and I'm weirdly glad to see that the French are just as prone to anti musical nonsense as the people commenting under Bach videos.
françois rousseau
Merci pour ce moment de grâce absolu. Merveilleux moment où les voix prennent le relais des instruments. Que de belles voix et de beaux visages expressifs. Sublime, poignant, beau simplement. À mon enterrement, pour que ceux que j'aime et qui seront presents repartent en paix, j'aimerais que cette musique soit jouée dans la joie profonde qui réunit les vivants
Cécile Calvez
@Thomas Davis le chauvinisme anglais reste toujours aussi navrant
Thomas Davis
@Cécile Calvez Rameau est mon compositeur préféré mais je sais que la musique n'est que de la musique.
Jas. Loney
In sixty years of listening to classical and baroque music, I must say that this (somewhat imperfect) recording by Les Arts Florissants et alia ranks just UP THERE with anything, anything, I have ever heard. The engagement of the players, the rapture of the singers, is really beyond anything anyone could possibly have expected. We are so blessed here on YouTube to be able to partake of such simply celestial moments of classical music as this, brought to us by Wm Christie (whose early 1980's recordings of the Monteverdi Vespers basically changed everything about how I listen, what I listen for, what MUSIC EVEN MEANS to me and others). Thank you to everyone involved in this amazing blazing subtle and impassioned performance ..... I am wordless but my heart and soul are pounding.
France Musique concerts
Many thanks for your feedback !
Denny Smith
Same here! I'm 70 and studied music theory, and never paid attention to Rameau until this year. What an introduction.
ĐüŁăň Beagain
not studying Rameau is like a Physicist not studying Newton 😢