Harpsichordist and conductor William Christie was born in Buffalo, New York, on
December 19, 1944, and is renowned for restoring the French Baroque repertoire
to its former glory. At the helm of Les Arts Florissants since 1979, the
French-born Harvard and Yale graduate has exhumed or renovated works by
Charpentier, Rameau and Lully, as well as the Bach family and Mozart, Handel and
Purcell. Since his landmark performance of Lully's opera Atys in 1987, the
Franco-American conductor has won acclaim at major festivals (Zürich,
Glyndebourne) and led orchestras such as the Berlin Phil...