Les Arts Florissants

“Astonishingly beautiful…wonderful sensuousness of tone and rhythmic precision.”
— The Guardian

Join Baroque masters William Christie and Paul Agnew for a vivid program of Monteverdi’s finest madrigals for mixed voices, including a performance of the iconic Il Combattimento.

Hailed by The Guardian as “strikingly sensuous” and “simply breathtaking,” the award-winning ensemble Les Arts Florissants returns to La Jolla from France for a captivating performance of 17th-century music that helped shape modern opera. Experience Baroque music performed on period instruments, bringing audiences closer to the sounds and styles of the era.

Monteverdi’s groundbreaking madrigals bring vivid scenes of passion, heartbreak, and joy to life through expressive vocal writing and innovative techniques such as stile concitato and pizzicato, evoking everything from the tensions on the battlefield to the intimacy of love.

Christie will lead the continuo from the harpsichord, while Agnew will direct and sing with a vocal ensemble to reveal Monteverdi’s transformative power and enduring musical innovation. Don’t miss this one-night-only performance by one of Europe’s most acclaimed ensembles.

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