In 2022, Les Arts Florissants celebrates Molière!

More than 30 years ago, Les Arts Florissants and William Christie made history with their interpretation of Molière’s plays, making the public rediscover a little known facet of these works, forgotten for several centuries: the music.

It is therefore with great joy that Les Arts Florissants will return to Molière in 2022, to celebrate his work through various projects:

• Molière’s Music, a new musical spectacle on international tour
• Molière, an educational performance 
• Reissue of the CD Le Malade imaginaire by Molière and Marc-Antoine Charpentier, from the Les Arts Florissants collection on the Harmonia Mundi label
• Video series of the Centre du Musique Baroque de Versailles: «Behind the scenes of Le Malade imaginaire»

Les Arts Florissants is also contributing to key exhibitions of the Molière year:

• Molière exhibitions (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Opéra national de Paris, Comédie-Française)
• Molière exhibition at the Centre national des costumes de scène (CNCS)

«What a curious phenomenon - that it was not until the end of the 20th century that the French, so keen on their literary heritage, finally rediscovered a musical heritage so closely associated with one of their greatest writers: Molière! (...) In a way, we have tried with Les Arts Florissants to right these wrongs, (...) by giving back their music to Molière’s plays.» William Christie