Concerts

Tuesday January 25th 2022

The 3 Countertenors and the Castrati Virtuosity Compétition

In Baroque Europe, the castrati had an extraordinary place as the first 'stars' in the history of music. Enjoy the talents of Filippo Mineccia, Samuel Mariño and Valer Sabadus at the Royal Opera House.

Operas in concert version

Wednesday January 26th 2022

Monteverdi : Orfeo

Based on the myth of Orpheus trying to rescue his wife Eurydice from the Underworld, Orfeo was a milestone in the history of music, marking the musical end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque, placing 'the individual at the centre of the new musical world'.

Opéras en version de concert

Friday January 28th 2022

Haendel : Partenope

William Christie conducts this opera in a concert version, in three acts on a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia created in London in 1730, on 28 January 2022 at the Royal Opera.

Recurring shows

Program of the National
Equestrian Academy of Versailles

Equestrian Show

The Royal Stables

The 2021-2022 musical season

All shows

Concerts

Concerts

Tuesday January 25th 2022

The 3 Countertenors and the Castrati Virtuosity Compétition

In Baroque Europe, the castrati had an extraordinary place as the first 'stars' in the history of music. Enjoy the talents of Filippo Mineccia, Samuel Mariño and Valer Sabadus at the Royal Opera House.

Concerts

Friday March 11th 2022

Bach: Advent Cantatas

What if the life of Christ could be summed up in three concerts, with the sublime music of Bach? This is the artistic challenge of Raphaël Pichon, who inspires his troops with the crazy energy to perform three days of masterpieces.

Concerts

Saturday March 12th 2022

Bach: Saint John Passion

What if the life of Christ could be summed up in three concerts, with the sublime music of Bach? This is the artistic challenge of Raphaël Pichon, who inspires his troops with the crazy energy to perform three days of masterpieces.

Concerts

Sunday March 13th 2022

Bach : Résurrection - Oratorios de Pâques et de l'Ascension

What if the life of Christ could be summed up in three concerts, with the sublime music of Bach? This is the artistic challenge of Raphaël Pichon, who inspires his troops with the crazy energy to perform three days of masterpieces.

Concerts

Wednesday March 16th 2022

Florie Valiquette : Opéra Comique !

The young Canadian soprano Florie Valiquette, with the complicity of Gaétan Jarry, presents a Comic Opera in the Crusades Room.

Concerts

Sunday March 20th 2022

Lully : Grands Motets - Benedictus

Conducted by Stéphane Fuget, the Grands Motets will be performed in the spectacular setting of the Chapelle Royale on Sunday 20 March 2022.

Concerts

Saturday March 26th 2022

Charpentier : Auprès du Feu l'on fait l'Amour, Airs Galants

Stéphane Fuget presents a concert on Airs Galants at the Crusades Room, under his direction.

Concerts

Saturday april 2nd 2022

Gala Placido Domingo

Accompanied by the Royal Opera Orchestra under the direction of the brilliant Laurent Campellone and in duet with the dazzling soprano María José Siri, Plácido Domingo arrives at Versailles as a true living legend of opera for an unforgettable evening.

Concerts

Sunday April 25th 2021

Concert-Commémoration du Génocide Arménien

The Royal Chapel will be the place where the voice of the Armenian people can be heard, through music that is today symbolic of its multi-millennial history.

Concerts

Thursday June 23rd 2022

Rameau : Nouvelle Symphonie

Marc Minkowski presents Rameau's New Symphony at the Royal Opera on Thursday 23 June 2022.

Concerts

From June 25th to June 26th 2022

Lully / Charpentier : Molière et ses musiques

Discover extracts from Le Malade imaginaire, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, L'Amour médecin, Le Mariage forcé, George Dandin... under the direction of William Christie at the Royal Opera.

Concerts

Monday June 27th 2022

Le Coucher du Roi

Louis XIV was a King of Music: the body of works composed for his "official" life demonstrates this enough, with Lully's Tragédies Lyriques, the Carrousels and the Fanfares de plein air... But who knows the intimate music of the Sun King?

Concerts

Sunday July 3rd 2022

Les Noces Royales de Louis XIV

No less than Du Mont, Lully, Cavalli and many other skilled composers were needed for the celebrations of the sovereign's marriage. Discover these musical works in the Royal Chapel.

Concerts

Monday July 4th 2022

Jakub Józef Orliński: Récital Virtuose

For this new programme, Jakub Józef Orliński works with his Polish compatriots from the Ensemble Il Giardino d'Amore, conducted on the violin by Stefan Plewniak. On the programme: an anthology of works by Vivaldi and Handel.

Concerts

Sunday July 10th 2022

Gloire Immortelle !

A great connoisseur of 19th century music, Hervé Niquet could not have found better performers than the French Army Choir and the Republican Guard Orchestra, true musical emblems of the Nation!

Concerts

Tuesday July 12th 2022

Philippe Jaroussky et Valer Sabadus : les Premiers Castrats à Paris

Under the luminous direction of Christina Pluhar, Philippe Jaroussky and Valer Sabadus bring to life the treasures that turned the heads of the courtiers and established Italian music as the source of opera in France.

Concerts

Saturday July 16th 2022

Vivaldi: the four seasons / Concerti di Parigi

The Royal Opera Orchestra, which is devoting a series of concerts and recordings to works linking Vivaldi and Versailles, offers a program combining the famous Quattro Stagioni with the Concerti di Parigi, true Vivaldian gems.

Operas in concert version

Operas in concert version

Wednesday January 26th 2022

Monteverdi : Orfeo

Based on the myth of Orpheus trying to rescue his wife Eurydice from the Underworld, Orfeo was a milestone in the history of music, marking the musical end of the Renaissance and the beginning of the Baroque, placing 'the individual at the centre of the new musical world'.

Opéras en version de concert

Friday January 28th 2022

Haendel : Partenope

William Christie conducts this opera in a concert version, in three acts on a libretto by Silvio Stampiglia created in London in 1730, on 28 January 2022 at the Royal Opera.

Operas in concert version

Sunday January 30th 2022

Lully : Psyché

A connoisseur of Lully's operas, almost all of which he has recorded, Christophe Rousset gives this Psyché - whose destiny is full of pomp and circumstance - all the lustre of the great works by the inventor of French opera.

Operas in concert version

Tuesday April 12th 2022

Campra : Le Destin du Nouveau Siècle

Campra's splendid (and unknown!) music presents a balanced alternation of short narratives, solo arias, dances, choruses and double choruses, magnificent from start to finish, which the exceptional team assembled by Patrick Bismuth finally gives back to the public!

Operas, staged version

Operas staged version

From March 10th to March 13th 2022

Haendel : Alcina

Václav Luks, a Händelian at heart, directs a rich and expressive production throughout Europe, which brings to life the spells of the Palace of the Magician in love.

Operas staged version

From March 19th to March 23rd 2022

Lully : Atys

The two myths of Atys come together in this new production directed by Leonardo García Alarcón. This masterpiece by Lully and Quinault was described as the "King's Opera" from its inception.

Operas staged version

From May 18th May 22nd 2022

Rameau : Platée

Conducted by Hervé Niquet, this grand opera-bouffon, in which the gods deceive a frog into believing that he is loved by Jupiter, is arguably the most extraordinary musical comedy of 18th-century France.

Operas staged version

From July 1st to July 2nd 2022

La Senna Festeggiante/La Seine en fête

This great Serenade to the glory of Louis XV, brings together Virtue and the Golden Age on the banks of the Seine in celebration. The Royal Opera Orchestra, led by Andréa Marchiol, will perform in the gardens of the Château de Versailles.

Operas staged version

From July 8th to July 9th 2022

Mondonville : Titon et L'Aurore

Splendid music that does not leave a moment's respite, an unleashed conductor for this work full of colours and twists.

Concert

Friday April15th 2022

Couperin: Leçons de ténèbres

Stéphane Fuget conducts the young and sublime Florie Valiquette and Sophie Junker in this concert, which is particularly in tune with Versailles and is also the subject of a recording for our collection.

Concerts

Saturday April 16th 2022

Pergoles/Vivaldi : Stabat Mater for two castrati

Two countertenors for an emblematic work, the Stabat Mater: this is the resurrection of what was the history of the creation of this work in France.

Concerts

Tuesday June 1st 2022

Bach: Six Brandenburg concertos

In 1721, Bach dedicated an ensemble of “Six concerts with several instruments” to the Markgrave of Brandenburg: enter the Brandenburg Concertos…

Ballets

Ballet

From June 3rd to June 5th 2022

Marie-Antoinette / Malandain Ballet Biarritz

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...

Comedy-Ballet

From thur. 9th to sun. 19th of June 2022

Molière / Lully : Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme

In Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Molière portrays an adventurer of the mind whose only desire is to escape from his common condition and set foot in territories from which he is excluded... the discovery of a terra incognita which, by virtue of his birth, is forbidden to him.

Comedy-Ballet

From wed. 13th to sun. April 17th 2022

Molière: Le Malade imaginaire

"Molière's last play begins in the shadows of a dying day. It is a twilight comedy tinged with bitterness and melancholy."