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The German conductor Thomas Hengelbrock and its Balthasar Neumann Ensemble and Choir are legally resident in Château de Fontainebleau, and each season, their passage transforms the Ballroom into a baroque sounding board. May 2026 will see three concerts devoted to them, from Friday 15th to Sunday 17th.
The programme is entitled Theatre festival and plunges into the musical world of 17th-century Italy: Claudio Monteverdi, whose madrigals laid the foundations for modern opera, Luigi Rossi, an oratorian and court composer who travelled to Paris under Mazarin, Giovanni Legrenzi, a Venetian master whose writing influenced Vivaldi and Bach, and Orlando di Lasso, the polyphonist of the Franco-Flemish school, whose modernity remains striking.
Hengelbrock founded his ensemble in 1991 and has built up one of the most recognised names on the European Baroque scene: a historian-musician who does not separate interpretation from knowledge of the sources, and a vocal demand that alone justifies the trip. The Château is a setting that changes everything: the Ballroom and its Renaissance frescoes respond to the voices with acoustics that few modern halls can match.
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Prices : from €20 to €27 (full price), from €20 to €44 (price with château entrance ticket). Tickets are available from the official Château de Fontainebleau.
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