Description

Art of movement par excellence, music will also come to abide by the principle of representation; first of all, of course, by uniting with theatre to create that most baroque of inventions, opera; then by the support it lends the various dance rhythms displayed on feast and balls, as well as on the stage. In this way, music offers a ‘tone-show’ of natural occurrences, the sounds that represent, with a kind of theatrical objectivity, what one who practices such and such a trade or activity is like. Les Boreades invites us to witness certain aspects of this musical theatre, drawn from the repertories of four countries.