Sagittarius
Exigence artistique, soif de découverte et enthousiasme communicatif, tels sont les maître mots sur lesquels Michel Laplénie s’appuie lorsqu’il fonde l’ensemble vocal baroque Sagittarius en 1986. Toujours guidé par ces principes, Sagittarius acquiert très vite une notoriété internationale qui le situe aujourd’hui parmi les ensembles vocaux de référence pour l’interprétation du répertoire baroque.
L’ensemble se consacre à la redécouverte et à l’interprétation du répertoire vocal baroque européen avec une prédilection pour les musiques françaises et allemandes des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles, et tout particulièrement Heinrich Schütz (1585 – 1672) dont Sagittarius a adopté le nom latinisé.
Michel Laplénie founded Sagittarius in 1986, with a view to exploring new repertoire and sharing his musical enthusiasms. High artistic standards have brought the ensemble international renown and made it one of the foremost vocal groups in Baroque performance.
With their unquenchable curiosity, Sagittarius have taken part in several high profile opera productions (Handel's Alcina, Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris, 1990 - Lully's Phaëton, for the reopening of the Lyons opera house, 1993 - Campra's L'Europe Galante, Aix-en-Provence Festival, 1993 - Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, directed by Marc Minkowski, 1995, etc.). The ensemble has performed in Europe's most famous concerts halls as well as prestigious international festivals, often resurrecting forgotten musical treasures.
Sagittarius is an ensemble of soloists, and features 5 to 20 professional singers and instrumentalists, all of them established performers of the early repertoire. The focus is on European vocal music of the Baroque era, more specifically from 17th and 18th-century France and Germany, with a particular fondness for Heinrich Schütz, whose Latinized name Sagittarius it adopted. This wide repertoire has led to a large number of recordings, which have won acclaim for the sincerity and depth of their performances.
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