In the summer of 2022 William Christie appeared at Canada’s Festival de Lanaudière with his orchestra, Les Arts Florissants, and proteges of his youth academy, Le Jardin des voix. Bolstered by the success of those performances of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, he won over audiences at the Quebec festival once again in 2023, with the same composer’s comic opera, Partenope. This summer, Christie is back again, this time with a production of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, with performances at the Toronto Summer Music Festival on July 11 and two days later, back at the Festival de…
