Maïlys de Villoutreys

Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble join forces with a magnificent vocal ensemble to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's cantata Actus Tragicus, set to a work by Johann Michael Bach. Program : Johann Michael Bach - Unser Leben ist siebenzig Jahre Jean-Sébastien Bach - Cantate Actus Tragicus BWV 106 (extraits)

For their final concert on Les Chemins de Bach, Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion ensemble perform Bach's short masses and motets in Arnstadt's Bachkirche.

Raphaël Pichon and the Pygmalion Ensemble in concert in Arnstadt's Oberkirche, Johann Sebastian Bach's ancestral church.

Lost among strangers, a sensitive princess, a famous writer and an unwelcome devil try to find their place in an unfamiliar world. With his accessible and willingly facetious music, French composer Gérard Pesson has created an operatic adventure through three fairy tales. Their marvels are treated with fantasy and delicacy by librettist and director David Lescot.