Herve Niquet

and its executive producer ERDA,, Insula orchestraNoces royales – Les fastes de la RenaissanceConceived especially for the Seine de Fête festival!, this extraordinary project transports us to 1599, during the

, this extraordinary project transports us to 1599, at the time of the triumphal entry of the sovereigns Albert and Isabella of Austria into Brussels, after their wedding in Valencia.

For the occasion, the greatest musicians of all Europe gather – from Monteverdi to Praetorius, Philips or Allegri – for festivities of unequalled splendour.

Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel have designed the evening as it would have been in those days, in three parts: a processional musical procession, dazzling sacred polyphony, and a final ball with dance music and rousing popular songs.

The project also has a rare musicological dimension: research has made it possible to reconstruct a specific Renaissance instrumentarium, bringing back to life the sounds of rare and visually spectacular instruments – drums of impressive dimensions recreated for the occasion, fifes, natural trumpets, bombards (ancestors of the oboe), cornetts, sackbuts (ancestors of the trombone), a consort of Renaissance violins and regals, those small portable organs with hand-operated bellows.

An immersive and jubilant celebration, to be experienced as if you were there. Concert performed on period instruments. Duration: 1h45 with interval