The instrumental and vocal ensemble Le Concert d’Astrée was founded in 2000 by Emmanuelle Haïm, and has earned an outstanding reputation for its interpretations of music of the 17th and 18th centuries. Since 2004, Le Concert d’Astrée has been resident ensemble at the Opéra de Lille, where it most recently appeared in Porpora’s Polifemo and in a concert of music by Rameau and Handel.

In the 2025/26 season Le Concert d’Astrée performed under the direction of Emmanuelle Haïm in Claus Guth’s new production of Handel’s Semele at the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam and in Jean-Marie Leclair’s Scylla et Glaucus, also directed by Claus Guth, at the Zurich Opera House. Other projects have taken the ensemble to famous concert halls throughout the world, and have included a tour of France and Spain with Pergolesi’s Stabat mater, featuring soloists Emőke Baráth and Carlo Vistoli.

In summer 2025 Le Concert d’Astrée made its first appearance at the Salzburg Festival, in a new production of Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto. In 2021 the ensemble celebrated its 20th anniversary at the Berlin State Opera and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris with concerts under Emmanuelle Haïm and Simon Rattle.

Le Concert d’Astrée is collaborating with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra to create The Handel Project at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, as part of a three-year residency in Los Angeles.

The ensemble has also released numerous CDs on the Erato / Warner Classics label, which have been acclaimed by press and public.

Under the initiative of Emmanuelle Haïm, members of Le Concert d’Astrée are regularly involved in outreach and education programmes.