William Christie’s three previous visits to Lanaudière with Les Arts Florissants were enchanting events only the Baroque masters can conjure. For his return to the Festival, Maestro Christie has chosen to bring us a symbolic work, the short opera by Marc-Antoine Charpentier that lends its name to the ensemble: Les Arts Florissants! Presented as a double feature with another lyric work by Charpentier, this new performance puts on display laureates of the Jardin des Voix, Les Arts Florissants’s celebrated academy for young singers. A veritable origin story, plunging us into the Grand Siècle, in the Versailles of Louis XIV where song and dance combine in an exquisite musical delight.