Festival de Beaune


The Festival de Beaune: Festival international d’opéra baroque is a month-long annual summer festival of baroque opera in Beaune, France. It is notable for revivals of many baroque operas and performances of Mozart on original instruments.
More recently the town has also become host, in a different week, to the Festival international du film policier de Beaune - a festival of detective films.
Founded in 1982, the Baroque Music Festival of Beaune has presented over 80 operas, over 30 of them significant revivals and world, European or French premières; over 100 oratorio and sacred music concerts, including 5 revivals or premières. In addition to recitals by individual performers. The festival also runs classes and voice workshops, the Académie de Chant baroque.

Venue

The concerts take place in the Hospices de Beaune, 15th century, and in the Collégiale Notre-Dame de Beaune, 12th century, over four weekends in July.

Notable opera revivals

The following includes only major revivals and premières:
;1988
;1990
George Frideric Handel: Flavio. dir. René Jacobs
;1993
George Frideric Handel: Scipione. dir. Christophe Rousset
;1994
;1995
;1994
;1995
;1996
;1997
;1998
;1999
;2001
;2003
;2004
;2005:
;2008:
;2009:
Rinaldo O. Dantone; Acis and Galatea P. McCreesh.
;2010:
;2011: 29th Rameau Dardanus 1744, Porpora Semiramide riconosciuta Stefano Montanari,
;2012: 30th Vivaldi Orlando Furioso 1714, Septem verba a Christo René Jacobs
;2013: 31st Festival - L'incoronazione di Dario Dantone Amadis Rousset Orlando Jacobs
;2014: 32nd - Handel Teseo and Serse, Rameau Zaïs and Castor et Pollux
;2015: 33rd Nicola Porpora Il Trionfo della divina Giustizia Lully Armide
;2016: 34th - Rameau Zoroastre, Vivaldi Tamerlano
;2017: 35th Festival - Alessandro Scarlatti: Mitridate, Handel Ottone, Lully Alceste
;2018: 36th Rodrigo Giustino