Maybe it’s old news that Les Arts Florissants is actually an opera, not just the name of Early Music guru William Christie’s famed eponymous group of players. It is a 40 minute opera, or musical idyll, by Marc Antoine Charpentier, discovered, or rather uncovered about 50 years ago by William Christie. Just now it has been paired with Charpentier’s equally brief La Descente d’Orphée aux Enfers for a North American tour that began on July 11 in To…
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