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:

George Frideric Handel: Flavio. dir. René Jacobs George Frideric Handel: Scipione. dir. Christophe Rousset
 * 1988
 * Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Actéon. dir. William Christie.
 * 1990
 * 1993
 * Campra: l’Europe Galante. Marc Minkowski
 * 1994
 * George Frideric Handel: Poro. dir. Fabio Biondi
 * 1995
 * George Frideric Handel: Riccardo Primo. Christophe Rousset
 * 1994
 * Niccolò Jommelli: Armida abbandonata. Christophe Rousset
 * 1995
 * Nicola Porpora: Arianna in Nasso. Rinaldo Alessandrini
 * 1996
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully: Acis et Galatée. Marc Minkowski
 * 1997
 * Tommaso Traetta: Antigona. Christophe Rousset
 * Antonio de Literes: Los Elementos. Eduardo López Banzo


 * 1998
 * George Frideric Handel: Admeto. Christophe Rousset
 * Jean-Philippe Rameau: Zoroastre. William Christie
 * 1999
 * Henri Desmarets: Didon. Christophe Rousset
 * Antonio de Literes: Acis y Galatea. Eduardo López Banzo
 * 2001
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully: 'Persée. Christophe Rousset
 * Francesco Cavalli: I Strali d’Amore. Gabriel Garrido
 * 2003
 * Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: L'Olimpiade. Ottavio Dantone
 * 2004
 * Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Il Flaminio. Ottavio Dantone
 * 2005:
 * Francesco Bartolomeo Conti: Don Quichotte in Sierra Morena. René Jacobs.


 * 2008:
 * Domenico Scarlatti: Ottavia restituita al trono. Cappella della Pietà de Turchini, Antonio Florio.
 * Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria. Ottavio Dantone.
 * 2009:
 * No premieres - Handel celebration: Ariodante F. M. Sardelli; Giulio Cesare E. Lopez Banzo; Rinaldo O. Dantone; Acis and Galatea P. McCreesh.
 * 2010:
 * Jean-Baptiste Lully: Bellérophon composed 1697, unperformed. Les Talens Lyriques, dir Christophe Rousset
 * 2011: 29th Rameau  Dardanus 1744, Porpora Semiramide riconosciuta (Porpora) Stefano Montanari,
 * 2012: 30th Vivaldi Orlando Furioso 1714, Septem verba a Christo René Jacobs
 * 2013: 31st Festival - L'incoronazione di Dario Dantone Amadis (Lully) 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 (Handel) Giustino (Vivaldi)