2025 - 2026 Season Les Talens on the Big Screen!

The Leçons de Ténèbres are an absolute marvel, a pinnacle of Baroque music. They embody that fascinating balance between sacred and profane love, so prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries, both in music and painting – think Titian. Faith was a given, even for libertines. Couperin’s devotion radiates through his music, with an intensity that is truly overwhelming.

Les Talens Lyriques, named after the subtitle of Rameau’s 1739 opera Les Fêtes d’Hébé, was founded in 1991 by harpsichordist and conductor Christophe Rousset.

Spanning a wide vocal and instrumental repertoire from the early Baroque to the dawn of Romanticism, the ensemble seeks to shed new light on music history’s great masterpieces—viewed through the prism of rare or previously unperformed works that often serve as the missing links in Europe’s musical heritage. Musicological research and editorial work are central to the ensemble’s mission, playing a vital role in its artistic identity and international reputation.