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Les Arts Florissants is a Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 ensemble
Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music. In each musical style different norms have developed for the sizes and composition of different ensembles, and for the repertoire of songs or musical works that these ensembles perform....
 of singers and musicians founded in 1979 by William Christie
William Christie (musician)

William Lincoln Christie is the founder and director of Les Arts Florissants .Christie studied art history at Harvard University and music at Yale University....
 and based in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. The group is noted for its productions of baroque operas, many of which are available on CD and DVD. Notable members include Danielle de Niese
Danielle de Niese

Danielle de Niese is an Australian-born soprano now residing in the United States, of Sri Lankan and Netherlands heritage.After winning a number of singing competitions at an early age in her native Australia, de Niese moved with her family to Los Angeles where she made her professional operatic debut at the age of 15 with Los Angeles Oper...
. In 2007 Paul Agnew
Paul Agnew

Paul Agnew is a Scottish operatic tenor.Agnew read music as a Choral Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the Consort of Musicke, the Tallis Scholars, the Sixteen and the Gothic Voices, before embarking on a solo career in the early 1990s....
 began to try to conduct the group, although it remains closely associated with William Christie.








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Les Arts Florissants is a Baroque
Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
 ensemble
Musical ensemble

A musical ensemble is a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music. In each musical style different norms have developed for the sizes and composition of different ensembles, and for the repertoire of songs or musical works that these ensembles perform....
 of singers and musicians founded in 1979 by William Christie
William Christie (musician)

William Lincoln Christie is the founder and director of Les Arts Florissants .Christie studied art history at Harvard University and music at Yale University....
 and based in France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
. The group is noted for its productions of baroque operas, many of which are available on CD and DVD. Notable members include Danielle de Niese
Danielle de Niese

Danielle de Niese is an Australian-born soprano now residing in the United States, of Sri Lankan and Netherlands heritage.After winning a number of singing competitions at an early age in her native Australia, de Niese moved with her family to Los Angeles where she made her professional operatic debut at the age of 15 with Los Angeles Oper...
. In 2007 Paul Agnew
Paul Agnew

Paul Agnew is a Scottish operatic tenor.Agnew read music as a Choral Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the Consort of Musicke, the Tallis Scholars, the Sixteen and the Gothic Voices, before embarking on a solo career in the early 1990s....
 began to try to conduct the group, although it remains closely associated with William Christie.

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