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Visages d'Orphée
Mathilde Vialle & Thibaut Roussel, leading an ensemble of exceptional musicians, deliver three cantatas based on the myth of Orpheus, full of love... but also of despair.
Lully - Psyché
Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques give new life to this lyrical tragedy by Lully, packed with twists and turns, and filled with splendour!
Lebègue - Vêpres de la Nativité
Lebègue - Vêpres de la Nativité
Immerse yourself in this tender evocation of a vespers service in a late 17th century convent celebrating the work of Lebègue, one of the inventors of the "Noël"!
Rameau - Fêtes persanes
Loris Barrucand and Clément Geoffroy lend their hands to Rameau's mythical and appealing Persia, which fascinated 18th century intellectuals!
Rameau - Les Paladins
If Rameau's career was made up of great operatic successes, there were also a few failures; Les Paladins is certainly one of them. And yet, Valentin Tournet, a valiant knight at the helm of his army, the Chapelle Harmonique, reveals here his misunderstood strength - extravagance, laughable heroes, and musical prowess!
La Captive du Sérail
Sometimes captives, slaves or in love and full of courage, the soprano Florie Valiquette lends her voice to a great number of characters of the gallant turqueries of the 18th century, accompanied by Gaétan Jarry and the Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal.
Lully - Miserere
Miserere, Quare fremuerunt gentes, Jubilate Deo... here are three grand motets by Lully that are clearly influenced by the key events of their time! Performed sublimely by Les Epopées, under the direction of Stéphane Fuget, they take us to the heart of events and moments of the court's life.
Tiroirs Secrets - French Organ Rarities
Tiroirs Secrets - French Organ Rarities
Lucile Dollat and Michael Metzler offer a new interpretation of great organ pieces, accompanied by baroque percussion parts created for the occasion! Thus are revealed the hidden but omnipresent links between secular and religious music.
Versailles · Westminster
Set off on a musical journey between two centres of power in 17th-century Europe, Versailles and Westminster! Through these pieces, Constance Taillard highlights the desire of the English monarchs, cousins of Louis XIV, to recreate Versailles' artistic model.
Grands Motets - Rameau
Rameau's Grands Motets, works as rare as they are exquisite, reveal a long-neglected view of the legacy of the greatest French composer of the 18th century - along these celestial notes, a talent, a genius, still in its infancy is revealed, which will come into its own in opera!
Molière & Lully - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Musical pieces
Molière & Lully - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Musical pieces
When the first notes of the new comédie-ballet, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, the fruit of Lully's and Molière's genius, sounded on 14 October 1670, no one could have imagined it would reach such a posterity - four centuries later, the same lightness, vigour and ingenuity still make us laugh!
Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles
Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles
What if Beaumarchais could change the past of the victims of the Revolution? Will Marie Antoinette be able to escape her fate? In this unique work, which had its triumphant premiere in 1991 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Corigliano's music navigates between Mozart and Rossini, and takes the audience back in the myst of the French Revolution and the dreadful fate of France's last Queen!
Les 3 Contre-Ténors - The Castrati Virtuosity Competition
Les 3 Contre-Ténors - The Castrati Virtuosity Competition
Valer Sabadus, Filippo Mineccia and Samuel Mariño, renowned countertenors, compete in a real contest between castrati. Who will be your lucky winner in this intense and thrilling battle of emotions, virtuosity, angelicism and ardour?
Zingarelli - Giulietta e Romeo
Zingarelli - Giulietta e Romeo
Who was not seized by the love of Romeo and Juliet? Napoleon, that great man of war, who was said to be bloodthirsty, was no exception. Franco Fagioli and Adèle Charvet reunite the formidable duet of the castrato Crescentini and the adored Grassini - a tribute to this unknown Bonaparte !
Giulietta e Romeo
Who was not seized by the love of Romeo and Juliet? Napoleon, that great man of war, was no exception. Franco Fagioli and Adèle Charvet reunite the formidable duet of the castrato Crescentini and the adored Grassini in this opera made by Zingarelli as a tribute to this unknown Bonaparte, lover of Italian opera.
Marie-Antoinette
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Marie-Antoinette, lover and protector of the arts: that is the image that Thierry Malandain, with this ballet created in 2019 on the stage of the Royal Opera of Versailles, wanted to give back to the last Queen of France. A vibrant and colourful tribute, set to symphonies by Haydn and Glück, to the one who was mistreated by History.
The Ghosts of Versailles
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What if Beaumarchais could change the past of the victims of the Revolution? Will Marie Antoinette be able to escape her fate? In this unique work, which had its triumphant premiere in 1991 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Corigliano's music navigates between Mozart and Rossini, and takes the audience back in the myst of the French Revolution and the dreadful fate of France's last Queen!
Le Quattro Stagioni
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Here, at last reunited, are two works on the same programme, yet so different: to the well-known virtuosity of Vivaldi's work, Guido's Seasons contrast a mixture of French good taste and Italian features. So who would have inspired whom? For this exciting confrontation in Eight Seasons, the Royal Opera Orchestra is conducted by the virtuoso Andrés Gabetta in the bewitching of the Galerie des Gl...
Visages d'Orphée
Mathilde Vialle & Thibaut Roussel, leading an ensemble of exceptional musicians, deliver three cantatas based on the myth of Orpheus, full of love... but also of despair.
Lully - Psyché
Christophe Rousset and Les Talens Lyriques give new life to this lyrical tragedy by Lully, packed with twists and turns, and filled with splendour!
Lebègue - Vêpres de la Nativité
Lebègue - Vêpres de la Nativité
Immerse yourself in this tender evocation of a vespers service in a late 17th century convent celebrating the work of Lebègue, one of the inventors of the "Noël"!
Rameau - Fêtes persanes
Loris Barrucand and Clément Geoffroy lend their hands to Rameau's mythical and appealing Persia, which fascinated 18th century intellectuals!
Rameau - Les Paladins
If Rameau's career was made up of great operatic successes, there were also a few failures; Les Paladins is certainly one of them. And yet, Valentin Tournet, a valiant knight at the helm of his army, the Chapelle Harmonique, reveals here his misunderstood strength - extravagance, laughable heroes, and musical prowess!
La Captive du Sérail
Sometimes captives, slaves or in love and full of courage, the soprano Florie Valiquette lends her voice to a great number of characters of the gallant turqueries of the 18th century, accompanied by Gaétan Jarry and the Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal.
Lully - Miserere
Miserere, Quare fremuerunt gentes, Jubilate Deo... here are three grand motets by Lully that are clearly influenced by the key events of their time! Performed sublimely by Les Epopées, under the direction of Stéphane Fuget, they take us to the heart of events and moments of the court's life.
Tiroirs Secrets - French Organ Rarities
Tiroirs Secrets - French Organ Rarities
Lucile Dollat and Michael Metzler offer a new interpretation of great organ pieces, accompanied by baroque percussion parts created for the occasion! Thus are revealed the hidden but omnipresent links between secular and religious music.
Versailles · Westminster
Set off on a musical journey between two centres of power in 17th-century Europe, Versailles and Westminster! Through these pieces, Constance Taillard highlights the desire of the English monarchs, cousins of Louis XIV, to recreate Versailles' artistic model.
Grands Motets - Rameau
Rameau's Grands Motets, works as rare as they are exquisite, reveal a long-neglected view of the legacy of the greatest French composer of the 18th century - along these celestial notes, a talent, a genius, still in its infancy is revealed, which will come into its own in opera!
Molière & Lully - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Musical pieces
Molière & Lully - Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - Musical pieces
When the first notes of the new comédie-ballet, Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, the fruit of Lully's and Molière's genius, sounded on 14 October 1670, no one could have imagined it would reach such a posterity - four centuries later, the same lightness, vigour and ingenuity still make us laugh!
Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles
Corigliano - The Ghosts of Versailles
What if Beaumarchais could change the past of the victims of the Revolution? Will Marie Antoinette be able to escape her fate? In this unique work, which had its triumphant premiere in 1991 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Corigliano's music navigates between Mozart and Rossini, and takes the audience back in the myst of the French Revolution and the dreadful fate of France's last Queen!
Les 3 Contre-Ténors - The Castrati Virtuosity Competition
Les 3 Contre-Ténors - The Castrati Virtuosity Competition
Valer Sabadus, Filippo Mineccia and Samuel Mariño, renowned countertenors, compete in a real contest between castrati. Who will be your lucky winner in this intense and thrilling battle of emotions, virtuosity, angelicism and ardour?
Zingarelli - Giulietta e Romeo
Zingarelli - Giulietta e Romeo
Who was not seized by the love of Romeo and Juliet? Napoleon, that great man of war, who was said to be bloodthirsty, was no exception. Franco Fagioli and Adèle Charvet reunite the formidable duet of the castrato Crescentini and the adored Grassini - a tribute to this unknown Bonaparte !
Giulietta e Romeo
Who was not seized by the love of Romeo and Juliet? Napoleon, that great man of war, was no exception. Franco Fagioli and Adèle Charvet reunite the formidable duet of the castrato Crescentini and the adored Grassini in this opera made by Zingarelli as a tribute to this unknown Bonaparte, lover of Italian opera.
Marie-Antoinette
Free access
Marie-Antoinette, lover and protector of the arts: that is the image that Thierry Malandain, with this ballet created in 2019 on the stage of the Royal Opera of Versailles, wanted to give back to the last Queen of France. A vibrant and colourful tribute, set to symphonies by Haydn and Glück, to the one who was mistreated by History.
The Ghosts of Versailles
Free access
What if Beaumarchais could change the past of the victims of the Revolution? Will Marie Antoinette be able to escape her fate? In this unique work, which had its triumphant premiere in 1991 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Corigliano's music navigates between Mozart and Rossini, and takes the audience back in the myst of the French Revolution and the dreadful fate of France's last Queen!
Le Quattro Stagioni
Free access
Here, at last reunited, are two works on the same programme, yet so different: to the well-known virtuosity of Vivaldi's work, Guido's Seasons contrast a mixture of French good taste and Italian features. So who would have inspired whom? For this exciting confrontation in Eight Seasons, the Royal Opera Orchestra is conducted by the virtuoso Andrés Gabetta in the bewitching of the Galerie des Gl...
