Les Talens Lyriques

The Ensemble Les Talens Lyriques takes their name from the subtitle of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Les Fêtes d’Hébé (1739). They were formed in 1991 by the harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset. Les Talens Lyriques champions a broad vocal and instrumental repertoire, spanning from early Baroque to the beginnings of Romanticism. Les Talens Lyriques explore not only opera, but other genres as well: secular madrigals, cantatas, airs de cour, symphonies, and the vast corpus of sacred music (masses, motets, oratorios, Leçons de Ténèbres and so on). The Ensemble plays all over the world in varying sizes, from just a handful to over sixty musicians of all ages. Their repertoire include works by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Landi, Pallavicino, Händel, Lully (Persée, Roland, Bellérophon, Phaéton, Amadis, Armide, Alceste, Isis), Desmarest, Mondonville, Cimarosa, Traetta, Jommelli, Martin y Soler, Mozart (Mitridate, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Così fan tutte, Die Zauberflöte), Salieri (La Grotta di Trofonio, Les Danaïdes, Les Horaces, Tarare, Armida), Rameau (Zoroastre, Castor et Pollux, Les Indes galantes, Platée, Pygmalion), Gluck, Beethoven, Cherubini, García, Berlioz, Massenet, Gounod (Faust), Spontini (La Vestale) Saint-Saëns, and others. Their rich discography now includes more than 100 recordings for Erato, Fnac Music, Auvidis, Decca, Naïve, Ambroisie, Virgin Classics, Palazzetto Bru zane, Outhere, Château Versailles Spectacles, and Aparté.