As part of a performance-training programme by Studio Baroque IMEP, directed by Sophie Karthäuser, François de Carpentries and Karine Van Hercke present a participatory creation based on the journey of Ulysses, as experienced by the women (Calypso, Circe, Nausicaa, Penelope, etc.) who marked his path, through operas from the 17th and 18th centuries. A mythical journey revisited through a contemporary interpretation of their emotional experiences, giving voice to these women, symbols of the forces that animate and motivate human existence, through which the hero and traveller merely passes.

Aya Tanaka, Sara Geeraerts, Florence Susant, Aline Giaux sopranos, ElisabethTernisien mezzo-soprano, Maxime Jermann tenor

Maria-Laura Schoutteten, Yukiko Nagase violins

Jacqueline Emontspohl, flute

Vitor Barbero musical director & harpsichord.

Karine Van Hercke and François de Carpentries, directors

Music by Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Vivaldi, Haendel, Rameau, Desmarest, Destouches, Rebel

Price: €15 (adults) – €10 (seniors 60+) – Free (IMEP teachers & students – young people under 26) – Booking required via the link below