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The 2024-2025 musical season

The Palace of Versailles is hosting numerous operas, concerts, gala evenings and ballets in some of its exceptional spaces, including the Royal Opera and the Royal Chapel. Check out the programme for the 2024–2025 music season at Versailles.

Concert

Monday November 4th 2024

Marina Viotti Recital

Marina Viotti has chosen Versailles as the setting for a new recital, which will be the subject of her next album, recorded by the Château de Versailles Spectacles label. Her favourite great Baroque composers will be brought to their peak by her warm and powerful mezzo-soprano voice. At the helm of the Orchestra of the Opéra Royal, Andrés Gabetta will be her partner for this evening of Baroque virtuosity!

Théâtre

From Wednesday November 6th to Sunday November 10th 2024

Molière : The Miser

With all due respect to Molière, this Miser is generous, never once skimping on its invigorating delights. Yet frugality is everywhere: in the painted canvas set, in the pared-back staging, in the sober acting. Nothing stands in the way of the text, dulling its shine or diluting its brilliance. The actors thrill us, tackling the words with utter brio. Jérôme Deschamps as the pot-bellied Harpagon jealously guarding his gold is jubilant and luminous, as are Macha Makeïeff’s splendid costumes, filling our coffers with joy.

Concert

Tuesday November 12th 2024 - Royal Chapel

Charpentier and Italy: Mass for Four Choirs

This concert looks back on the direct influences Italy had on Charpentier, with a compulsory stop at the Vatican, where polychorality reigned supreme, and another one at the City of the Doges, where Venetian composers were making a major contribution to the dissemination and teaching of one of the most grandiose musical styles of the 17th century.

Ballet

From Friday November 15th to Sunday November 17th 2024

Jerome Robbins Eternal

The Ballet of the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples was founded at the same time as the famous opera, in 1737. The ballet’s new director since 2021, Clotilde Vayer, a former dancer and then Maître de Ballet at the Paris Opera, has breathed new life into this ensemble of magnificent dancers. Jerome Robbins, who was one of the stars of the dance world for four decades, notably as director of the New York City Ballet, and who is known to the general public for his famous choreography of West Side Story to the music of Bernstein, introduced classical dance to audiences coming from Broadway, where he triumphed.

Opera in concert version

Saturday November 16th 2024

Mozart : The Duty of the First Commandment

In a dazzling start to his career, at the tender of eleven, Mozart composed his first sacred opera: Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebotes (The Duty of the First Commandment). It is a work in three parts, only the first of which was composed by Mozart; the other two (composed Michael Haydn and Anton Cajetan Adlgasser) remain lost.

Concerts

From Saturday November 23rd and Sunday November 24th 2024

Mozart : Requiem

This work has since given rise to countless theories, a host of unfinished pages and some splendid interpretations above all; it compels both audience and performers, reaching us almost intact in the form left behind by Mozart. As if these last notes, from the dying composer’s still-raised pen, were all the more precious.

Operas staged version

Monday November 25th 2024 - Hercules Room

Monteverdi : L'Orfeo

In 1607 in Mantua, Claudio Monteverdi premièred his Orfeo, a favola in musica, for the opening of Carnival at the Court Theatre of Duke Vincenzo I of Gonzaga. For the first time in the history of music, real characters were driven by deeply moving human feelings. With this exceptional dramatic force, modern opera was born. Stéphane Fuget is one of the experts in this repertoire, specialising in historical ornamentation on the most illustrious stages. The Ensemble Les Épopées that he directs brings together a first-rate group of vocal and instrumental virtuosos, all acclaimed specialists in the Italian Seicento.

Concert

Thursday November 28th 2024 - Hercules Room

Bruno De Sa Recital : Mille Affetti

Glittering soprano Bruno de Sá sings Mozart, Cherubini and Cimarosa in a Baroque balancing act. After triumphing alongside Nicolò Balducci and Théo Imart last season in the recital The Three Counter-Tenors or the Castrati Virtuoso Competition, the Brazilian virtuoso is back in all his glory at the Opéra Royal!

Concert

Saturday November 30th 2024 - Royal Chapel

Masters of the Chapelle Royale

Two of them, André Campra and Nicolas Bernier in particular, were particularly inspired by him, and even succeeded him after his death; the former in the service of the Jesuits on rue Saint Antoine, the latter as Master of Music at the Sainte-Chapelle. This programme brings together three major artists who are among the great creators of sacred music in the heart of the Grand Siècle.

Opera in concert version

Monday December 2nd 2024 - Hercules Room

Rameau : Pygmalion

The absolute masterpiece that is Pygmalion remains Rameau’s most frequently performed work of the second half of the 18th century . As was customary at the time, we wanted to build a programme of fragments and thus include another piece written at the same period by a master overlooked in the history of music: Zémide by Pierre Iso. This ballet act was first performed in 1745 at the Académie Royale de Musique. Rediscovering this piece, we were won over by the quality of the music and its message.

Opera in staged version

From Wednesday December 4th to Sunday December 8th 2024

Porpora : Polifemo

Bringing together the heroic characters of Ulysses, Polifemo, Calypso, Acis and Galatea, Porpora's opera was a resounding success. Here, it is brought to the stage with the virtuoso performances of Franco Fagioli as Primo Uomo, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian as Secondo Uomo and Julia Lezhneva as Prima Donna: against the backdrop of a roaring Etna, the cyclops Polifemo awaits connoisseurs of brilliance from the depths of his cave!

Concert

Saturday December 7th 2024

Charpentier : Midnight Mass

In the religious times of Louis XIV, Easter was the most important period of piety for the whole of society. But Christmas became increasingly important, rising to second place in the hearts of the faithful. Specific scores were dedicated to Advent and the Nativity, using popular melodies and silencing the organ from the first Sunday in Advent until Christmas, when it made a striking comeback to play the famous “Noëls variés”.

Concert

Sunday December 8th 2024 - Royal Chapel

Brahms : A German Requiem

The German Requiem (Deutsches Requiem) was composed by Brahms over the course of two decades before it was first performed at Bremen Cathedral in 1868. At the age of thirty-five, at peak creative force, Brahms produced a work that perfectly masters the great sound masses of the orchestra and choir, for a masterpiece that surpasses all comparable productions and dominates Brahms’s oeuvre. Raphaël Pichon tackles this monument of sacred music with the forces of his Pygmalion ensemble, well versed in the immense scope of Bach’s Passions: a path to eternity.

Concert

Wednesday December 11th 2024 - Royal Chapel

Roma

Discovering Roman polyphonic music of the 17th century. The splendors of sacred music in Rome dazzled the whole of Europe: played everywhere and all the time in the holy city, religious works were adorned with exceptional musical richness. Here is a dazzling anthology.

Opera in staged version

From Friday December 13th to Sunday December 15th 2024

Galuppi : l'Uomo Femina

Baroque is a pearl with multiple reflections, which takes its audience to the confines of the imagination inspired by the inexhaustible sources of mythology. The upheaval of authority and genres so evident here, is the main subject of this burlesque work brought to triumph by the Venetian Galuppi in 1762!

Concert

Sunday December 15th 2024 - Royal Chapel

Bach - Charpentier : A Baroque Christmas

Drawing on his passion for both French music and the works of Bach, Gardiner paints a colourful Baroque portrait of the Nativity celebrations.

Opera in staged version

Monday December 16th 2024 - Hercules Room

Haendel : Sosarme

In 1732, Handel, who had just triumphed in Poro and would soon be tackling the composition of Orlando, staged Sosarme, re di Media (the capital of the kingdom of the Medes was Ecbatana, in present-day Iran), a brilliant work in which the star castrato Senesino and the soprano Anna-Maria Strada del Pò (Handel’s muse – he wrote Alcina for her) gave splendid lyrical performances. Marco Angioloni, a singer and conductor whose affinity with Handel has already produced a unanimously acclaimed Poro at Versailles, invites us to rediscover this magnificent work (starring no less than three countertenors.)

Concert

Friday December 20th 2024 - Hercules Room

Kings and Heroes: Paul-Antoine Bénos- Djian Recital

In Handel’s operas, the characters portrayed by castrati were mainly powerful figures: sovereigns like the Egyptian kings Ptolemy and Alexander, Roman emperors such as Julius Caesar and Otto, heroes like the knights Rinaldo and Orlando, or the jealous Polinesso.

Concert

From Saturday December 21st to Sunday December 22nd 2024 - Royal Chapel

Handel : Messiah

Under the direction of Franco Fagiol, discover a new version of Handel's Messiah with the accompaniment of the Chamber Choir of the Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and the Orchestre royal de l'Opera.

Concert

Monday December 23rd 2024 - Royal Chapel

Christmas with Sonya Yoncheva

Over a decade, the soprano Sonya Yoncheva has become the queen of the world's most renowned stages. With her velvety voice and brilliant high notes, flawless articulation and imperial breath, her stage presence makes her a major incarnation of the heroines of the repertoire, where she is as brilliant in Baroque as in classical and romantic repertoires. This programme has been designed for the Christmas period and the Royal Chapel of Versailles, with soaring lyricism and the beauty of the nativity magnificently interwoven. Sonya Yoncheva will be accompanied by the Choir and the Orchestra of the Opéra Royal.

Operas staged version

From Friday December 27th 2024 to Wednesday January 1st 2025 - Royal Opera

Mozart : The Magic Flute

This production follows suit, with an all-French version, directed by Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek with an extraordinarily dreamlike dimension, as close to the action as possible. Here, Hervé Niquet directs a team of soloists who are fully committed to their roles as singer-actors, and as for the result, all we can say is: flute alors! To inject even more power into Mozart’s masterpiece, here is The Flute in French, and it’s an absolute marvel!

New Year's concert

Monday December 30th 2024

Johann Strauss Bicentenary

Two hundred years of dazzling, spellbinding music: 2025 marks the bicentenary of Johann Strauss's birth, and to celebrate in style, the Royal Opera Orchestra of Versailles joins forces with the Schönbrunn Palace Orchestra for an exceptional New Year's concert: Emperor Waltz, arias and overtures from the masterpieces The Bat, The Gypsy Baron, A Night in Venice, as well as the Polka des Parisiens and, of course, The Blue Danube!

Opera in staged version

From Thuesday January 14th to Wednesday January 22nd 2025

Bizet: Carmen

No need to introduce Bizet’s masterpiece, the most representative of French operas, maybe the most often performed opera in the world. Gypsies, bandits, soldiers and toreadors inhabit a work where all passions are drawn to extremes, from love to death.

Opera in concert version

Saturday January 18th 2025 - Royal Chapel

Handel : Solomon

For four decades, Paul McCreesh has dedicated himself to giving Handel an almost stage-like quality; for Versailles, he is reviving Solomon, having already performed it here to great acclaim in 2010, is certain to sweep listeners off their feet once again with this powerful, shimmering fresco of burning emotion.

Concert

Sunday January 26th 2025

Happy Birthday Bill !

A pioneer of Baroque rediscovery, a passionate defender of the arts and culture of the Grand Siècle, a conductor praised the world over: William Christie's flamboyant personality has left its mark on the international musical landscape. What better way to celebrate his 80th birthday than with music? This concert and event brings together some of William Christie’s most cherished works from his beloved repertoire of 17th- and 18th-century French music.

Concert

Tuesday January 28th 2025 - Royal Chapel

José de Torrès : Requiem for Louis I of Spain, king for 150 days!

Louis I Le Bien Aimé, King for 150 days, nevertheless had for his funeral a splendid Requiem for two choirs by his Maître de Chapelle José de Torres (1670-1738, Master of the Madrid Chapel for thirty-one years), resurrected by the young and talented Alberto Miguélez Rouco, with French and Spanish performers, for a totally new program that will bring the music of the Real Capilla de Madrid to the Chapelle Royale at Versailles!

Concert

Thursday January 30th 2025 - Hercules Room

The Three Counter-Tenors

With a trio as extraordinary as that formed by Samuel Mariño (Venezuela), Théo Imart (France) and Rafał Tomkiewicz (Poland), the audience is invited to a high-flying competition: baroque to the highest degree, the emulation between these primi uomi was the attraction of Italian operas, whose most thrilling vocal dynamics are here revived by the voices of three countertenors reviving for one evening the Glory of the Castrati.

Opera in concert version

Friday January 31st 2025

Handel : Acis et Galatea

When the young Handel arrived in Rome in 1707, he dazzled the city's elite with his exceptional talent. He became the "fashionable" composer, and his fame grew so rapidly that he was called to Naples, where he premiered his pastoral Aci, Galatea e Polifemo in July 1708, at the Court Theater in the Ducal Palace of Piedimonte Matese for a sumptuous wedding.

Opera in concert version

Monday March 3rd 2025 - Hercules Room

Francesca Caccini : Alcina

The composer Francesca Caccini is an exemplary figure of the flourishing of Italian music in the first half of the 17th century. Her graceful style flourished at the Medici court in Florence, where she delighted her contemporaries and was admired for her many musical talents, particularly her singing concerts, accompanying herself on the lute. Her refined writing brings this supernatural-inflected story to life, with melodious arias, character-revealing recitatives and choruses of monsters and enchanted plants.

Ballet

From Thursday March 6th to Sunday March 17th 2025

Malandain Ballet Biarritz : Marie-Antoinette

Thierry Malandain's ballet retraces Marie-Antoinette's journey to Versailles: from her arrival at court on the day of her wedding and the inauguration of the Royal Opera House, to her departure in October 1789, which took her to her fate...

Concerts

Friday March 7th 2025 - Royal Chapel

Campra: Requiem

This Requiem is one of the most striking works of the Grand Siècle, and contrary to what a modern ear might expect from such a text, the music here is of a solar intensity: the musician offers his particular reading of an ancestral text and a certain vision of death. Eternal light (lux perpetua) is at the heart of this southern work, which is resolutely positive, profound and radiant.

Ballet

From Wednesday March 12th to Wednesday March 19th 2025

Ballet Preljocaj : Requiem(s)

Between sadness, rage and moments of joy, French choreographer Angelin Preljocaj makes a stopover at the Royal Opera to present his new creation, more intimate than ever. After the emotion of Snow White and the transcendence of Triptych last season, Ballet Preljocaj reconquers the Versailles stage for a show built on rupture, glorifying Mozart's Requiem.

Concert

Friday March 14th 2025 - Royal Chapel

Charpentier : Te Deum/Haendel : Coronation Anthems

At the helm of the Choir and Orchestra of the Opéra Royal, Gaétan Jarry places the music of the English Crown alongside the Te Deum by the “Angel of French Baroque music”, with victorious trumpets and martial timpani drums supporting the choral acclamations. A majestic and dazzling programme under the vaulted ceiling of the Chapelle Royale!

Concert

Sunday March 23rd 2025 - Royal Chapel

The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci

Through Milanese music of the late 15th century, this concert is a sonic evocation of this pictorial masterpiece. The lamentations of the Holy Week liturgy echo the Missa Galeazescha dedicated to the Sforza family. The sacred concert is preceded by a moment of secular music, where songs and musical interludes suggest the soundscape of a princely banquet. Finally, the Milan Laudaire closes the show with a scene in the vernacular describing Christ's last moments.

Concert

Sunday March 30th 2025

Bach: Six Brandenburg concertos

In 1721, Bach dedicated a cycle of six concertos to the Margrave of Brandenburg, uncle of the King of Prussia. A veritable "art of the concerto" in the manner of Bach, these "six concerts à plusieurs instruments" are of rare virtuosity, involving not only the strings but also various soloists such as the harpsichord and trumpet, in a blend of styles where the Italian concerto dominates, but with an extraordinary science of German-style contrapuntal interweaving, and magnificent French influences.

Opera in staged version

From Friday April 4th to Sunday April 12th 2025

Donizetti : The Daughter of the Regiment

In 1840, crowned with exceptional success, Donizetti gave his first opera in French in Paris: La Fille du Régiment. Versailles has just reopened as a museum dedicated to "all the Glories of France", in which Napoleon is far more honored than Louis XIV, and France is preparing to welcome the return of the Emperor's ashes with fervor.

Opera in concert version

From March 10th to March 13th 2022

Handel : Alcina

London 1735: Handel was at the height of his fame, but his Royal Academy of Music was a colossus with feet of clay, given the stiff competition from the Opera de la Noblesse. It was therefore necessary to present a new masterpiece with a charismatic character. In 1733, Handel had triumphed with Orlando, based on Ariosto's epic poem, and for this new opus he drew on the same vein, using the libretto of L'Isola d'Alcina, the first opera seria by Riccardo Broschi (Farinelli's brother) created in Rome in 1728.

Concert

Monday May 5th 2024 - Crusades Room

Marie Lys Recital : Cantates of Haendel

The young soprano from Lausanne, Marie Lys, has won over audiences in just a few years, making her warm timbre and virtuosity her most winning assets. Here she is, carrying the flame of that most ebullient of Baroque composers, Georg Friedrich Handel. In these cantatas, the voice is brought to incandescence by the signer’s sensuality and passion. Marie Lys will perform a recital (recorded on CD) of these splendid works by her beloved Handel, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Opéra Royal, conducted by Gaétan Jarry.

Theatre

Thuesday May 13th and Wednesday May 14th 2025

Fabrice Luchini : La Fontaine et le confinement

“During the year of lockdown, I worked (modestly) on three great authors: Jean de la Fontaine, Blaise Pascal and Charles Baudelaire. I was so fascinated by them that I decided to create a show, La Fontaine et le Confinement (The Fountain and Lockdown)." Fabrice Luchini. Relating to current events, the texts are introduced by anecdotes of Luchini’s experiences during lockdown.

Concert

Thursday May 15th 2025

The Prodigies of Romanticism

After winning First Prize at the Concours International Long-Thibaud in 2022, and setting the stage on fire at the Opéra Royal the previous season in Beethoven's L'Empereur, young Korean Hyuk Lee tackles the most romantic of piano concertos! The following year, Ukrainian violinist Bohdan Luts took all the laurels at the Long-Thibaud Competition (First Grand Prize, Press Prize, Audience Prize and Orchestra Prize) at just eighteen years of age! He will perform one of the greatest violin concertos in the repertoire, accompanied by the brilliant Victor Jacob at the helm of the Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal!

Operas staged version

From Friday May 16th to Sunday May 18th 2025 - Royal Chapel

Charpentier: David and Jonathas

This production is a Baroque dream: to perform the sacred drama David and Jonathas in the Chapelle Royale at Versailles, with a sumptuous set by Antoine and Roland Fontaine, costumes by Christian Lacroix, dazzling Baroque staging by Marshall Pynkoski, choreography by Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg and the exquisite musical vision of Gaétan Jarry leading exceptional soloists. This is a stirring version of the powerful, fateful love story of David and Jonathas.

Opera in concert version

Thursday May 22nd 2025

Rameau : Les Fêtes de Ramire

Voltaire et Rameau avaient déjà collaboré pour La Princesse de Navarre, créée au début de l’année 1745. La cour leur demande de remanier cette fastueuse comédie-ballet pour en faire un ballet en un acte, mais les deux hommes n’ont pas le temps – ils préparent Le Temple de la Gloire – et confient la finalisation de l’adaptation à Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Le 22 décembre 1745, la cour découvre ainsi une œuvre mettant en scène une princesse espagnole captive à qui l’un de ses geôliers offre de superbes divertissements. Une œuvre à laquelle ont collaboré trois des plus brillants esprits du XVIIIe siècle.

Concert

Friday May 23rd 2025 - Royal Chapel

Clérambault : Te Deum - Story of the Adulterous Woman

This large-scale Te Deum magnifies the royal glory, in the tradition of Lully and Lalande. It is associated here with the famous Missa Assumpta est Maria by his elder Marc-Antoine Charpentier, as well as with L'Histoire de la Femme adulère, Clérambault's only known oratorio. The work is based on the canons of 17th-century Roman oratorio, modeled in particular by Carissimi. Clérambault succeeds in fusing French and Italian tastes, blending French declamatory style with ultramontane structural elements.

Opera in concert version

Sunday May 25th 2025

Wagner : Siegfried

Composed between 1856 and 1871, but premiered for the inauguration of Bayreuth in 1876, Siegfried is the opera of its eponymous hero, who slays the dragon Fafner and the dwarf Mime, then frees the Valkyrie Brünnhilde by crossing the wall of flames that protects her: kissing her to awaken her, he gives her the Ring in an oath of love... Wagner gives this powerful fresco extraordinary scope.

Opera in concert version

Tuesday May 27th 2025 - Crusades Room

Philidor : Ernelinde, Princess of Norway

A considerable composer and world-renowned chess player, Philidor was a pivotal figure in late 18th-century French opera. His Ernelinde princesse de Norvège was hailed as a highly modern composition, paving the way for Gluck and the reformed French opera of Louis XVI's reign. Music inspired by Pergolesi and the other great Italian masters, a drama concentrated into just three acts, vocal writing that is alternately virtuosic and heroic, and picturesque ballets are all features that distinguish Philidor's score as extremely singular for its time.

Concert

Tuesday June 3rd 2025 - Royal Chapel

Music for French Cathedrals in the 17th century

With the Pages and Chantres of the Center for Baroque Music in Versailles, Fabien Armengaud breathes new life into the finest works from the Tours and Deslauriers manuscripts, like a voyage through the provinces of the Kingdom in the 17th century.

Concert

Tuesday June 10th 2024 - Royal Chapel

Bach : Cantates for sunday "Jubilate"

The maestro John Eliot Gardiner continues to immerse himself in Bach's cantatas, taking the same approach as he did for his complete works to mark the 250th anniversary of the composer's death, following the liturgical calendar rather than chronological order. This first concert therefore focuses on the cantatas for Jubilate Sunday: the third or fourth Sunday after Easter.

Concert

Wednesday June 11th 2025 - Royal Chapel

Bach : Cantatas for the 16th Sunday after Trinity Sunday

The second part of this diptych devoted to Bach’s cantatas combines a work composed for Mühlhausen, where the first cantatas written by Bach in 1707-1708 appeared: the sumptuous funeral cantata actus tragicus (BWV 106), a true masterpiece, and those for Leipzig (BWV 8, 27 and 95) composed between 1723 and 1726. John Eliot Gardiner, a great specialist in the cantor, embarked on an incredible Bach pilgrimage throughout Europe in 2000: his masterful, humane and passionate interpretation was a landmark and continues to move audiences with its exceptional vision.

Ballet

From Tuesday June 12th to Saturday June 14th 2025

Junior ballet of Paris Opera

Made up of 18 dancers recruited through an international competition to give them all the tools they need to develop their talent, the Junior Ballet was born in 2024. And given the extraordinary reputation of the Paris Opera Ballet, it promises surprises, discoveries and extraordinary talent!

Opera in concert version

Sunday June 15th 2025

Lully : Proserpine

With Proserpine, Lully served the evolution of the lyric tragedy genre he himself had founded by exploring a wide variety of vocal and orchestral combinations. The orchestra was no longer content to play instrumental diversions framing the action, but contributed to the dramatic progression by supporting and replicating the characters and choruses. The duet of Pluton and Ascalaphe, the first bass duet in this repertoire, also testifies to the renewal of the genre. According to musicologist Jérôme de La Gorce, this work bears witness to "decisive changes for the future of tragedy".

Opera in concert version

Monday June 16th 2025 - Hall of Mirrors

Charpentier - Actéon

A pastoral blending jubilation and tragedy, beauty and cruelty, Actéon is an ideal musical gem to showcase the magnificent young singers of the Royal Opera Academy, gathered for their end-of-cycle performance: what better setting than the Galerie des Glaces for this highly Baroque work, and for an exceptional evening?

Opera in concert version

Wednesday June 18th 2025 - Hercules Room

Landi : La Morte d'Orfeo

Stéphane Fuget continues his exploration of early Italian opera, after recording Monteverdi's trilogy of operas at Versailles. Following on from the latter (Orfeo, 1607), Stefano Landi's La Morte d'Orfeo (1619) sets to music the hero's return after his failure to bring Euridice back to earth. Grief-stricken, Orfeo renounces earthly pleasures. Dionysus takes offense, and delivers him to the fury of the Bacchae: he dies torn to pieces under their blows.

Opera in staged version

From Thursday June 19th to Sunday June 22nd 2025

Le Carnaval Baroque

An original creation, a unique show: at the crossroads of Baroque music and circus arts, this Carnival tells the story of a day of festivities in Venice. From a picturesque feast to street theater and a manhunt along the canals, singers and acrobats enchant us with dances and popular songs.

Concert

Monday June 23rd 2025 - Crusades Room

Mozart / Jadin : Concertos of pianoforte

A jewel in the rising generation of French keyboardists, Justin Taylor connects these works through the dazzle they still bring today, the extraordinary freshness of youth and inspiration!

Concert

Thursday June 26th 2025 - Royal Chapel

In the Style of the Masters

The entire baroque period delighted in “parodying” and drawing inspiration from the music of the Masters, to whose style this programme is dedicated: Vivaldi and Rameau are the symbols of this, but their style, too, was much-copied. Valentin Tournet celebrates astonishing rediscoveries in this “original” programme, In the Style of the Masters.

Concerts

Monday June 30th 2025 - Hercules Room

Bach : Concertos for 1,2,3 violin(s)

For this exceptional concert of Bach’s famous concertos for violin, Théotime Langlois de Swarte, the young baroque violin prodigy, will direct the Orchestra of the Opéra Royal for the very first time. This is the perfect occasion to enjoy of Bach’s concertos for one, two and three violins, masterpieces of the genre and of late baroque, combining virtuosity and expressing singing in a tribute to the German composer.

Opera in staged version

Saturday June 5th and Sunday June 6th July 2025 - Queen's theater

Vivaldi : La Senna Festeggiante

This grand two-part Serenade, in the format of a small opera, brings together Virtue and the Golden Age on the banks of the festive Seine. The glory of the King of France is allegorically magnified by particularly sumptuous, virtuoso music.

Concert

From Saturday 12th to Monday 14th July 2025

Vivaldi/Guido : The Four Seasons

The publication of Guido's Seasons in Versailles does not bear a date, but is thought to date from the period 1725-1733. In any case, Guido's Seasons are contemporary with Vivaldi's famous Seasons, perhaps a little earlier. So, who inspired whom?

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