On stage will be another, a puppet, theater, whose height and width allows soloists to move along with the puppets. And so Acis, Galatea, Damon and Coridon, who are later disturbed by giant Polyphemos, are here in the puppet world, here again in the real world, like puppets, while theirs emotions accompany baroque gestures. Singers inspired puppets and vice versa. Furthermore, there are things that a human being cannot, but the puppet so, for example, become a giant Cyclops …

Acis and Galatea

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) composed his Christmas Oratorio between 1733 and 1734, and it has since remained the musical highlight of the year’s end. It consists of six cantatas premiered in Leipzig between Christmas 1734 and Epiphany 1735. Philippe Herreweghe, born in 1947 in Ghent, is a renowned specialist in historical performance practice. The careful phrasing and transparent sound of...