Sébastien Daucé conducts Lully — With the Ensemble Correspondances

The Correspondances ensemble, specializing in 17th-century music, and its flamboyant musical director Sébastien Daucé invite you to an evening titled Fragments amoureux ("Fragments of Love"). This resplendent celebration at Prague’s Rudolfinum is dedicated to the famed court composer of Louis XIV of France (the "Sun King"), Jean-Baptiste Lully, and features a program that highlights all the expressions of love.

In this case, a musical fragment refers to the selection of excerpts from several works by the same composer, which are then assembled to create a unique experience for the audience. In the 18th century—an era where contemporary music reigned supreme—Lully’s 17th century panache could still be heard under this new kaleidoscopic form within the salons of the Enlightenment. For this 2025 performance at the Prague Spring Festival, the operas Psyché (1671), Atys (1676), Persée (1682), and Armide (1686) have been expertly “fragmented". Though recited in turn by gods and mythological heroes, the emotions expressed here are universal: unrequited love, cruelty, indifference, rivalries, madness, lamentations... Through his tender yet tragic, dramatic yet pleasant style and arias, the Florentine genius evokes feelings that resonate in every heart.