Mariage princier

This extraordinary project transports us in 1599, during the triumphant entry of the sovereigns Albert and Isabella of Austria in Brussels, after their marriage in Valencia.

For the occasion, the greatest musicians from all over Europe gather – from Monteverdi to Praetorius, Philips or Allegri – for festivities of unparalleled splendor.

Hervé Niquet and Le Concert Spirituel designed the evening as it was then, in three stages: an ambulatory musical procession, dazzling sacred polyphonies, and a final ball with dance music and wild popular songs.

The project also has a rare musical dimension: research has made it possible to reconstitute a specific instrumentarium of the Renaissance, reviving the sounds of rare and visually spectacular instruments – drums of impressive dimensions recreated for the occasion, fifes, natural trumpets, bombardes (ancestors of the oboe), cornets, saqueboutes (ancestors of the trombone), band of Renaissance violins and regales, these small organs.

An immersive and jubilant celebration, to live as if you were there.

Concert performed on ancient instruments.