Emmanuelle Cordoliani (France):  actress
Raphaël Collignon (France):  harpsichord

Programme:
"Grandes amours à la française"

Honoré d'Urfé (1607 – 1627):
L'Astrée

Jean-Baptiste Racine (1677):
Phèdre

Choderlos de Laclos (1782):
Les Liaisons dangereuses

&

Jacques Champion de Chambonnières (1601 – 1670/1672)

François Couperin »le Grande« (1668 – 1733)

Antoine Forqueray (1672 – 1745)

Jean-Philipp Rameau (1683 – 1764)

Improvizacije / improvisations
 

Bio Raphaël Collignon:
Raphaël Collignon was born in 1979. He studied in the conservatories of Paris, Strasbourg, and Den Haag, where he was awarded final diplomas for harpsichord, basso continuo, chamber music, piano, jazz and improvised music. He has appeared with the Concert d’Astrée, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Het Residentie Orkest in Den Haag, Les Musiciens de Mademoiselle de Guise, Les Inventions, and performs regularly as a member of Ensemble Sirocco, Les Inventions and Laterna Magica, with whom he has also recorded CDs. He has been invited several times to perform and lead workshops outside Europe in several international festivals, with Laterna Magica in Vietnam, Bolivia, and Cuba, and with Ensemble Sirocco in Armenia, Iran and Sudan. As a member of the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO 2004 and 2006) and Harmony of Nation Baroque Orchestra, he has performed throughout Europe, working with such conductors as Ton Koopman, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Andrew Manze, Christophe Coin and Alfredo Bernardini. With recorder player Nathalie Houtman, he undertook a one-year journey (2005–2006) around the world, giving more than 30 concerts and meeting musicians across four continents. Raphaël also works in the field of performing arts (theatre, dance, film), as a composer and instrumentalist.

Bio Emmanuelle Cordoliani:
Emmanuelle Cordoliani received the bulk of her training in Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique de Paris then in l'Institut Nomade de la Mise en Scène.
As a dramatist and director, she meets prestigious artists in unusual circumstances: Natalie Dessay (Pelléas et Mélisande), Lambert Wilson (Schumann-Clara-Brahms), pianist Eric Lesage (Les très longues fiançailles de Robert et Clara Schumann), violinist Gordan Nikolic' (Bach/Pétrarque), conductors Jonathan Nott (City Life), Stéphane Denève (Peer Gynt), Nicolau de Figueiredo (Alcina), Alain Altinoglu (L'italiana in Algeri), and others.
A regular guest of the festivals of Musique à l'Emperi et Bach en Combrailles, she finds there the opportunity to pursue creative work with instrumentalists. Emmanuelle frequently takes her pen in the service of presenting the work of important orchestras (ONL, ONB, ONDIF, EIC, etc.) to the young public.
Close co-operation on several shows with La Cité de la Musique has brought her to create operas in both versions for both the general and young public (Alcina, Don Giovanni). This innovative initiative and the success which it has met testifies to the particular and renewed interest which Emmanuelle holds in the public and the future of music. Since September, 2002, Emmanuelle Cordoliani has taught opera at the CNSM of Paris. In this framework, she has staged numerous shows: La Bohème, Le Nozze di Figaro, Dialogues des Carmélites, La Clemenza di Tito, Eugene Onegin, The Turn of the Screw, Die Fledermaus, etc.
In recent seasons, her work has featured in numerous settings: L'italiana in Algeri (Opéra de Montpellier), Pelléas et Mélisande (Royal Scottish National Orchestra), Zaide (Opéra de Rouen), Alcina (Cité de la Musique), L'enfant et les Sortilèges (Opéra de Besançon) and others. The coming seasons will confirm Emmanuelle in this eclecticism and quality with Verdi’s Otello, Haydn’s La Création and Mozart’s Don Giovanni.