Mariage Princier

and its executive producer ERDA,, Insula orchestra Noces royales – Les fastes de la Renaissance Conceived especially for the Seine de Fête festival!, this extraordinary project transports us to 1599, to the triumphal entry…

, this extraordinary project transports us to 1599, to the triumphal entry of the sovereigns Albert and Isabella of Austria into Brussels, following 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 conceived the evening as it would have been in its time, in three movements: a processional musical procession, dazzling sacred polyphony, and a closing 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 size recreated for the occasion, fifes, natural trumpets, bombardes (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. Performed on period instruments. Duration: 1h45 with interval