Recurring shows

Program of the National
Equestrian Academy of Versailles

Equestrian Show

The Royal Stables

Concerts

Concerts

Saturday 2nd October 2021

Crescentini, Napoleon's Castrato

Castrato Girolamo Crescentini (1762-1846) was the last true star of this voice category, which disappeared at the beginning of the 19th century. He is now embodied by a singer unequalled today for his wide vocal range, his virtuosity and expressiveness, which enable him to revive early bel canto at its peak.

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Sunday October 3rd 2021

Mathias Vidal : Rameau Triomphant

The singer Mathias Vidal is today one of the most brilliant representatives of the countertenor tessitura, and it is obviously in the great baroque works that he is most "at home". For a French singer with a passion for the 17th and 18th century repertoire, recording a recital of Rameau's Haute-Contre is a high point!

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Friday October 8th 2021

De Lalande : Symphonies pour les Soupers du Roi

Vincent Dumestre, a fine connoisseur of the works of the time of Louis XIV, brings together here (in concert and on recordings for our record collection) the best instrumentalists for the resurrection of this gastronomic and royal, and therefore opulent music...

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Saturday October 16th 2021

Berlioz : Symphonie Fantastique / Beethoven : 5ème Symphonie

Directed by François-Xavier Roth, find two musical masterpieces at the Opéra Royal on Saturday, October 16th, 2021.

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Wednesday November 10th 2021

Brahms : Un Requiem Allemand

In the special setting of the Chapelle Royale, this concert conducted by Raphaël Pichon will take place on Wednesday 10th November 2021.

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Thursday November 16th 2021

Campra : Requiem

Campra: Requiem in the Royal Chapel.

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November 20th and 21st 2021

Mozart et Salieri : Requiem

In the spectacular setting of the Chapelle Royale, discover this concert, conducted by Hervé Niquet on the weekend of November 20th and 21st, 2021.

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Wednesday December 8th 2021

Haendel : Le Messie

The young Valentin Tournet, who has been associated with Château de Versailles’s programmes for the last four seasons, delivers here his vision of Handel's most famous oratorio: we look forward to it!

Concerts

Friday December 10th 2021

Rameau / Mondoville : Grands Motets

Bringing together accomplished soloists and the choristers and musicians of his Ensemble Marguerite Louise, Gaétan Jarry imbues these composition with his enthusiastic interpretation and his passion for French music, for a splendid programme recorded in our record collection!

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Sunday December 19th 2021

Charpentier : Messe de Minuit

Sébastien Daucé returns to this beautifully recorded Christmas programme to celebrate the Nativity in a style admired by the Versailles of Louis XIV. Enjoy it at the Chapelle Royale on Sunday 19 December.

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Sunday January 9th 2022

Fagioli : Mozart et les Castrats

The incredible Franco Fagioli dedicates his resplendent timbre to this repertoire, which was Mozart's first great success and for which he wrote the virtuoso arias of his maturity.

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Thursday January 13th 2022

Molière / Charpentier : Les Plaisirs de Versailles

Sébastien Daucé and his Ensemble Correspondances, fine specialists in 17th century French music, bring these Plaisirs de Versailles to life with splendid colours !

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Friday January 14th 2022

Molière / Lully : Le Ballet des Jean-Baptiste

Discover the music of Le Bourgeois gentilhomme, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac and La Pastorale comique through the arias that form their rarely performed "soundtrack". Or when Baptiste meets Baptiste...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Thursday June 23rd 2022

Rameau : Nouvelle Symphonie

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

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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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, staged version

Operas staged version

From November 11th to November 14th 2021

Grétry: Richard Lionheart

Opera-comique in three acts on a libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine, created in 1784 in Paris.

Operas staged version

From November 27th to December 1st 2021

Mozart : Les Noces de Figaro

Mozart's masterpiece, powerfully directed by star filmmaker James Gray, and starring Robert Gleadow as Figaro.

Operas staged version

December 11th and 12th 2021

Rossi : Le Palais des Sortilèges

The libretto, signed by the future Pope Clement IX, adapts for the first time Ariosto's Roland furieux, a masterpiece of Italian poetry. Directed by Leonardo García Alarcón, the show will take place at the Royal Opera House.

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.

Operas in concert version

Operas in concert version

Sunday December 5th 2021

Monteverdi : Le Retour d'Ulysse dans sa Patrie

See this opera directed by Stéphane Fuget in the Grande Salle des Croisades.

Operas in concert version

Tuesday January 11th 2022

Desmarest : Circé

With Charpentier et Lorenzani, Henry Desmarest is one of the great “failed destinies” of music under Louis XIV. A precocious and talented composer, admired by the King when he was only twenty, he was not accepted as Master of the Royal Chapel, and Lully also convinced the King not to let him go study in Italy. Taking advantage of the weakness of one of Chapel’s composers, Desmarest secretly wrote several Grand Motets for him, until the scandal caused the King to dismiss the incompetent musician.

Opéras en version de concert

Sunday January 16th 2022

Rameau : Les Paladins

Directed by Valentin Tournet, with Mathias Vidal in the lead role and Anne-Catherine Gillet as Nérine.

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!

Ballets

Ballets

Tuesday December 14th 2021

La Belle au Bois dormant

With the company La Feuille d'Automne, directed by Hervé Niquet and staged by Shirley and Dino, find Sleeping Beauty at the Opéra Royal on Tuesday 14th of December 2021.

Ballets

From Saturday December 18th to Sunday December 19th 2021

Compagnie de Danse l'Eventail : les Quatres Saisons

Swirling the performers in the inspired steps and figures of the 18th century, Marie-Geneviève Massé creates a show in which the Royal Opera Orchestra shines with all its desks, with Stefan Plewniak's solo violin leading the way in Vivaldi's excitement !

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...

Ballet

From December 22nd 2021 to January 2nd 2022

Swan Lake

The first ballet composed by Tchaïkovski will become, with Marius Petipa's choregraphy of 1895, for the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg, the "king of ballets" of russian tradition.

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.

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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.

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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…