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The 2025-2026 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 2025–2026 music season at Versailles.

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The King's tour

From the Salon of Hercules to the Queen’s Chamber via the Hall of Mirrors illuminated with royal fireworks, musicians, dancers, singers, fencers and actors are preparing to welcome you under the gold of the Grand Apartments for a visit -an extraordinary show leading you to the Galerie des Batailles, where you will meet a very special guest… baroque Santa Claus!

Concert

Sunday October 5th 2025

Concert du 8e gala de l'Ador : florilège Rossini

One of the highlights of the 8th ADOR’s Gala evening in aid of the musical season will undoubtedly be the concert at the Royal Opera. What better way to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the ADOR than with a foray into bel canto territory ?

Concert

Friday October 10th 2025

Haendel: Theodora

Refusing to sacrifice herself to Venus, the young Christian Theodora is condemned by the Romans to prostitution before dying a martyr’s death. Far from the flamboyant heroism of Jules Caesar, Handel, in one of his last oratorios, displays an emotion of overwhelming depth. Carried along by fervent, elegiac music, Theodora transcends the intimate drama into a veritable spiritual meditation. Thomas Dunford, at the head of his Ensemble Jupiter, handles this work with rare sensitivity.

Staged Operas

From Saturday 11th to Saturday October 18th 2025

Rossini: Cinderella (La Cenerentola)

Rossini's Cinderella (La Cenerentola) is less a fairy tale than a merry masquerade. Ferretti, the librettist, set aside most of the magical elements from Perrault’s Cinderella, in favour of a moral fable built on a brilliant play of disguises and misunderstandings.

Concert

Wednesday November 5th 2025

Triomphe et mort des rois

Majesty, fervour, and solemnity are at the heart of this programme, in which the music celebrates the spiritual greatness of sovereigns. Three masterpieces of the European Baroque weave a striking fresco of sound, between royal pomp and sacred contemplation.

Opera in concert

Sunday November 9th 2025

Charpentier: Les arts florissants

To close the anniversary season of his 80th birthday, William Christie, William Christie decided on a symbolic choice: to share with the public Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s short opera which gave its name to the ensemble… Les Arts florissants. Presented in a double format with another operatic piece by the same composer, La Descente d’Orphée aux enfers, this new show will also provide an opportunity to discover the voices of the ten new laureates of Le Jardin des Voix, Les Arts Florissants’ international academy for young singers. A spectacular finale !

Concert

Friday November 14th 2025

Brahms: symphone n°1

Pygmalion continues its exploration of Romantic Germany with Stéphane Degout, after an unforgettable A German Requiem at the Royal Chapel the previous season. This new programme, centred on Brahms, is built around works in which death is no longer feared, but meditated upon and tamed.

Opera in staged version

From Saturday November 15th to Sunday 16th 2025

Purcell: Dido and Æneas

With Dido and Æneas, Purcell tells of the love and farewell of two mythical lovers: fleeing Troy, Æneas lands in Carthage and falls in love with Queen Dido. But witches and spirits end the idyll, driving Æneas to take to the sea again to found Rome. Abandoned, Dido dies of grief in an unforgettable lament. The majestic Gaëlle Arquez performs this iconic role of seduction and despair in the lively and fantastic staging by Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek, who blend mime, dance, and acrobatics in a fairy tale-like set design.

Ballet

From Wednesday 19th to Thursday November 20th 2025

Malandain Ballet Biarritz: Les Saisons

This creation by Thierry Malandain brings together in a single programme The Four Seasons by Vivaldi and The Four Seasons composed by Giovanni Antonio Guido. Combining these two scores is a bold challenge, for although they share the same era and a common celebration of nature, they remain profoundly different.

Concert

Saturday November 22nd 2025

Haendel: Dixit dominus

Václav Luks plunges us into the flamboyant world of Baroque music with two geniuses from contrasting backgrounds: Jan Dismas Zelenka, the forgotten master of Dresden, and Georg Friedrich Handel, the cosmopolitan prodigy. This concert highlights the mystical fervour and inventive daring of Zelenka, through his Missa Circumcisionis, and the dramatic power of Handel’s Dixit Dominus, a dazzling fresco of sound inspired by baroque Rome.

Concert

From Saturday 29th to Sunday November 30th 2025

Mozart: Requiem

An unfinished masterpiece, a musical testament, a timeless sacred composition that transcends the liturgical framework, Mozart’s Requiem amasses superlatives. By the time of his death on 5 December 1791, the composer had fully completed the Introit and the Kyrie, and largely defined the content of the next five parts, from the Dies Irae to the Confutatis.

Recital

Thursday December 4th 2025

Théo Imart: Vivaldi magnifico

Théo Imart, a regular on the Versailles stage, gives his first recital at the Château. The young French countertenor explores Vivaldi through a selection of secular cantatas for solo voice, filled with fire and lyricism. Betrayal, tears, hope, or abandonment – each page reveals the dramatic art of the “Red Priest”, blending vocal virtuosity with expressive depth. Conducted by Chloé de Guillebon, the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal brings the theatrical energy of these cantatas back to life in the setting of the Hercules Room.

Opera in staged version

From Friday December 5th to thursday 11th 2025

Haendel: Ariodante

Considered Handel’s most perfect opera, Ariodante includes some of the most famous arias in the baroque repertoire. Inspired by Ariosto’s Orlando furioso, the libretto takes us to medieval Scotland, where the love between the knight Ariodante and Ginevra is thwarted by the machinations of the sinister Polinesso. But a final twist will save the hero from despair and blindness, in an unexpected happy ending…

Recital

Wednesday December 10th 2025

The three counter-tenors!

In Baroque Europe, castrati held an extraordinary place: they were the first stars in the history of music. Almost all were Italian and trained in the conservatoires of Naples, dedicating themselves to careers in opera or serving in the most prestigious princely chapels, including the Vatican and the Royal Chapel of Versailles – often combining both.

Concert

Friday December 12th 2025

Bach: magnificat

Christmas Day 1723 marks a turning point in the history of music. Johann Sebastian Bach, who had taken up his post as Thomaskantor a few months earlier, led the one o’clock vespers in the Nikolaikirche with what was to become one of the greatest European masterpieces of sacred music: his Magnificat. It celebrated Christmas Day, shared between its three churches – the Thomaskirche, the Paulinerkirche and the Nikolaikirche – where the Magnificat, Sanctus, and Cantata BWV 63, were played in turn, accompanied by spiritual hymns.

Concert

Sunday December 14th 2025

Christmas

Once As I Remember is inspired by John Eliot Gardiner’s recreation of the story of Christmas based on the old Springhead Christmas plays. A Nativity play made up of music, speech, dance and mime took place almost every Christmas in the Millroom at Springhead, home of the Gardiner family in Fontmell Magna, Dorset.

Concert

Wednesday December 17th 2025

Charpentier: Midnight mass

In the religious times of Louis XIV, Easter was the most important time for the piety of society as a whole. But Christmas was becoming increasingly important, to the point where it took second place in the hearts of the faithful. Specific scores were dedicated to the Advent and Nativity seasons, using popular melodies and silencing the organ from the first Sunday in Advent until Christmas, when it re-emerged with a vengeance to play the famous Noëls variés !

Concert

From Saturday 20th to Sunday December 21st 2025

Haendel: Le Messie

Messiah is Handel’s most renowned work. Premièred in Dublin in 1742, this oratorio was an immediate triumph: demand for tickets was so great that gentlemen were asked to “leave their swords at home” and ladies to attend “without hoops in their skirts” to make room for more attendees and thus increase the proceeds “going to charitable causes”. During the great alto aria “He was despised”, Reverend Delany, overcome with emotion, stood up in the audience and cried out to the singer: “Woman, for this be all thy sins forgiven thee !”».

Opera in staged version

From Saturday December 27th 2025 to Sunday January 4th 2026

Offenbach: La vie parisienne

Unearthed thanks to the archives of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal, this version of La Vie parisienne is as it was originally conceived by Offenbach and his librettists, before the vocal limitations of the artists responsible for creating the work forced them to rework it. Acclaimed on stage for four years, this production, directed by Christian Lacroix, is coming to Versailles.

Concert

Monday December 29th 2025

New Year's Concert: Johann Strauss bicentenary

Two hundred years of brilliant and enchanting music: 2025 marks the bicentenary of Johann Strauss’s birth, and to celebrate properly, the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal of the Palace de Versailles is performing an exceptional New Year’s concert – Kaiser-Walzer, airs and overtures from the masterpieces Die Fledermaus, Pariser-Polka, and of course The Blue Danube !

Concert

Saturday January 10th 2026

Charpentier: les victoires de Louis XIV

Hervé Niquet is passionate about the music of Charpentier, to whom he has devoted some ten recordings with Le Concert Spirituel over the last forty years. Following the immense success of Médée (Diapason d’or 2024), he has decided to revive his sacred works. No fewer than eight soloists, two choirs, and two orchestras are required for this corpus of pieces that rank among the most gigantic works of the 17th and 18th centuries in France.

Concert

Saturday January 17th 2026

Vivaldi: gloria

In 1703, having just been ordained a priest, Don Antonio Vivaldi became violin master to the girls at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. This hospice took in orphans and illegitimate daughters of the Venetian aristocracy, offering them a thorough musical education. These young girls formed a choir of some of the world’s greatest virtuosos, as well as a concerto of instrumentalists, usually comprising thirty to forty musicians, or even seventy on special occasions.

Recital

Monday January 19th 2026

Alex Rosen: Monsters and Heroes, from Lully to Purcell

American bass Alex Rosen, a familiar presence at the Royal Opera, will give his first solo recital in Versailles. With a voice both deep and refined, he promises a performance of rare intensity, shedding light on the richness of the baroque repertoire for bass at times monstrous, at others heroic…

Opera in staged version

From Saturday 24th to Wednesday January 28th 2026

Lully: Atys

The two myths of Attis converge in this new production: this masterpiece by Lully and Quinault, which was called the “King’s Opera” upon its creation in 1676 before the court, also became, three centuries later, a significant moment in the rediscovery of the great French Baroque operas, thanks to the productions by William Christie and Jean-Marie Villégier presented twice at the Royal Opera of Versailles.

Recital

Monday January 26th 2026

Juliette Mey: Vivaldi Lirico

After several appearances on the stage of the Royal Opera, with Les Arts Florissants, Les Épopées, and the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal, young mezzo-soprano Juliette Mey gives her first recital of Vivaldi at Versailles! Recently crowned “Révélation Artiste lyrique” at the Victoires de la musique awards and winner of the prestigious Queen Elisabeth competition, she is sure to thrill audiences alongside Théotime Langlois de Swarte at the helm of the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal !

Recital

Friday January 30th 2026

Max Emanuel Cenčić: Haendel, Vivaldi and Porpora

Max Emanuel Cenčić, accompanied by the ensemble {oh!} Orkiestra under the direction of Martyna Pastuszka, explores the splendours of Baroque opera. Between dazzling virtuosity and refined expressiveness, Handel, Vivaldi, and Porpora engage in a dialogue through a selection of heroic and sensitive arias. A journey to the heart of Baroque passions, carried by the art of the countertenor and the orchestral richness of a flamboyant repertoire.

Opera in concert

Saturday January 31st 2026

Salomon: Medea and Jason

The myth of Medea and Jason has inspired many composers and librettists, the best-known French version of the opera being Médée by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble a nocte temporis chose to revive Joseph-François Salomon’s version, which was published twenty years before Charpentier’s. Médée et Jason from 1713 has been forgotten, but nevertheless enjoyed considerable popularity in the 18th century, as the opera was revived several times at La Monnaie in Brussels in 1726.

Ballet

From Tuesday 3rd to Saturday February 7th 2026

Ballet Preljocaj: Le lac des cygnes

Following Snow White and Romeo and Juliet, Angelin Preljocaj returns to narrative ballet and his love for magnificent stories that make timeless tales. Elevating Tchaikovsky’s musical masterpiece, he takes hold of the swan-princess myth and transposes the story into a powerful world shaped by the ecological disasters of our time. Power, beauty, love, and death are at the heart of this masterpiece by Angelin Preljocaj, which moved audiences so deeply that the Royal Opera of the Palace of Versailles is presenting it again: a major event for all ages, a choreographic miracle that transcends styles.

Theater

From Thursday 12th to Sunday February 22nd 2026

Molière: the bourgeois gentleman

Here is a masterpiece that celebrated its 350th anniversary in 2020, and whose power remains undiminished. Thanks to Molière’s masterful writing, we are still, even today, hanging on every word of this bourgeois gentleman. Denis Podalydès takes on this classic and offers a production full of humour and lightness, perfectly aligned with the text and Molière’s devastating wit.

Opera in concert

Saturday February 14th 2026

Rameau: Pigmalion

This programme is above all a personal and artistic reflection on the myth of Pygmalion. By exploring two versions of this story (Rameau and Bailleux), I sought to reveal not only the different facets of this legend but also to question the role of art in our lives as artists. The myth of Pygmalion, beyond its first reading that might reduce the woman to a creation, serves as a pretext to explore what it means to create, what it means to give life to the inanimate – a reflection that, as artists, resonates deeply within us.

Opera in concert

Monday March 9th 2026

Lully: Roland

A mature work from both Lully and Quinault, Roland is part of a “trilogy” of epic-inspired operas, standing apart from mythological lyric tragedies. It lies between Amadis, based on the Spanish chivalric novel Amadis de Gaule by Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (parodied by Cervantes in Don Quichotte), and Armide, inspired by Gerusalemme Liberata, Tasso’s sublime epic, romantic before its time. Roland focuses on a famous episode from Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, in which a knight literally goes mad with love for the woman who betrayed him.

Theater

From Wednesday 11th to Thursday March 12th 2026

Fabrice Luchini reads victor hugo

I gave a first reading of texts and poems by Victor Hugo in front of an audience in June 2021, in the gardens of the Chateaubriand house. Contrary to the phrase by André Gide, a fine analyst, “Who is the greatest French poet? Victor Hugo, alas,” for me there are dazzling moments in Victor Hugo’s writings that go beyond a gifted craftsman, and the joys of writing that arise from his highly fertile creative output.

Recital

Saturday March 14th 2026

Sandrine Piau: Haendel concerti grossi and opera airs

William Christie reunites with French soprano Sandrine Piau around the Handelian repertoire, for a musical anthology combining bravura arias and Concerti grossi. One of the highlights of the Les Arts Florissants season !

Opera in staged version

From Sunday 22nd to Monday March 30th 2026

Gounod: Faust

Since its première in 1859, Gounod’s Faust has been at the pinnacle of French opera. Goethe’s text deeply influenced the Romantics – Liszt, Berlioz, Gounod, and later Boito all set it to music. Gounod was twenty years old when he discovered this work during his Prix de Rome stay in 1839 and fell under its spell. And for good reason: the hero, in the twilight of his life, wants to poison himself, convinced that all science and belief are futile. Doctor Faust calls upon the Devil and sells his soul in exchange for youth, through the diabolical figure of Mephistopheles.

Recital

Monday March 23rd 2026

Franco Fagioli: Arias for Velluti, the last castrato

Giovanni Battista Velluti, born in 1780, was the last heir of the great Italian castrati. His exceptional voice, both powerful and agile, and his impressive vocal mastery opened the doors to the most prestigious opera houses in Europe. His talent for highly complex vocal ornamentation had a lasting influence on 19th -century vocal performance style. Franco Fagioli immerses himself in Velluti’s theatricality to fully convey the extent of his genius, performing his most famous roles superbly, accompanied by the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal of the Palace of Versailles.

Opera in concert

Friday March 27th 2026

Lully: Armide

Among the significant works in the history of opera, Lully’s Armideholds a special place. It was the last lyric tragedy by Lully and Quinault: arguably the librettist’s greatest dramatic success and the culmination of the tragédie en musique project of the composer, who died the year following its première. Never did language seem so beautiful and tragic in Lully’s music, and the drama of this Christian knight falling in love with the Muslim sorceress who spares his life was so powerfully felt that it remained on stage for a century !

Theater

Sunday March 29th 2026

Karol Beffa and Mathieu Laine: The Adventures of the King Who Didn't Like Music

This is the story of a grumpy, authoritarian, and jealous king who ruled over a very small people of musicians. But… he hated music! And since he was the king, he decided to forbid his subjects from playing a single note. But how can one live without music? Like Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, this musical tale allows young children to discover and become familiar with different musical instruments.

Concert

Tuesday March 31st 2026

Couperin: Lessons of darkness

The Leçons de Ténèbres became increasingly popular musical compositions in the mid-17th century. Michel Lambert was the first in France to compose a full cycle in 1662, soon followed by Charpentier and Lalande. But the most famous – and the first to be rediscovered by the recording industry and the wider public – are those of François Couperin, dating from 1714.

Concert

Wednesday April 1st 2026

Bach: St Matthew Passion

St Matthew Passion, Bach’s crowning achievement, was probably premièred on Good Friday. The year 1727 at St. Thomas’s in Leipzig has haunted music history for almost three centuries. Played several times during Bach’s lifetime, it spearheaded the rediscovery of Bach in the 19th century. Almost one hundred years after its premiere, Felix Mendelssohn performed a version in Berlin, placing Bach back at the forefront of German musical heritage, where it has remained ever since.

Concert

From Friday 3rd to Saturday April 4th 2026

Bach: St John Passion

Of the two surviving Passions by Bach, the St John Passion was the first to be composed, and the Cantor reworked it several times for different performances between 1724 and 1747.

Concert

Thursday April 2nd 2026

Pergolesi: stabat mater for two castrati

Two countertenors for an iconic work: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. This is the resurrection of the history of the French premiere of this work, originally performed by two castrati from Louis XV’s Royal Chapel !

Concert

Sunday April 5th 2026

Bach: Oratio de pâques

John Eliot Gardiner, at the head of his new ensemble, brings together religious fervour and jubilant theatricality in this landmark Bach work of striking intensity. Composed in 1725, the Easter Oratorio unfolds a sonic fresco of the joy of the Resurrection, conveyed through virtuoso arias, resplendent choruses, and colourful instrumentation – notably with soaring flutes and oboes d’amore.

Opera in concert

Wednesday April 8th 2026

Peri: Euridice

A village in Arcadia prepares for the wedding of Orpheus and Euridice. But suddenly the nymph Daphne comes to tell us that Euridice has died, bitten by a snake. Orpheus then descends into the Underworld to rescue her from death. Despite the strict prohibition against releasing a soul from the Underworld, Pluto is moved by Orpheus’ song and allows him to return to earth with her. After some concern among the shepherds awaiting Orpheus’ return, the couple finally reappears. Together we celebrate the triumph of poetry and love over death.

Concert

Friday April 10th 2026

Vivaldi: magnificat

At the helm of Les Arts Florissants, William Christie offers a new reading of two masterpieces of Italian sacred music: Scarlatti’s Messa di Santa Cecilia and Vivaldi’s Magnificat.

Opera in concert

Sunday April 12th 2026

Rameau: Castor and Pollux

Castor et Pollux explores the theme of the power of sacrifice and brotherly bonds in the face of divine laws. Pollux, the immortal son of Jupiter, renounces his immortality to descend to the Underworld and bring his brother Castor back to life. Rameau explores the intertwining of brotherly love against a backdrop of heroism and echoes of war.

Opera in staged version

From Monday 13th to Sunday April 19th 2026

Rameau: Platée

1745 : Louis XV marries his son, the Dauphin Louis, to the Spanish Infanta Maria Teresa. For the royal wedding celebrations, a new work is performed in the Great Stables of Versailles – converted into a temporary theatre – commissioned from Rameau: the comic opera Platée. This grand opéra-bouffon, in which the gods trick a frog into believing that Jupiter is in love with her, is without doubt the most extraordinary musical comedy of the 18th century in France – even if the audience at the première thought they recognised the ugly little Spanish princess in the croaking heroine !

Opera in concert

Sunday May 10th 2026

wagner: Twilight of the Gods

For any opera house, Wagner’s Ring – Der Ring des Nibelungen – is one of the pinnacles of lyrical art. Composed between 1853 and 1874, this mythical cycle is conceived as a “scenic festival” consisting of a prologue: Das Rheingold, and three days: Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung. This legendary tetralogy was premièred in its entirety for the opening of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus in 1876.

Opera in staged version

Monday May 11th 2026

Morin: la chasse du cerf

Jean-Baptiste Morin, a musician in the service of the music-loving Duc d’Orléans, performed a perfectly seasonal entertainment for His Majesty Louis XIV in August 1708 at the Château de Fontainebleau: La chasse du cerf, which means “Stag hunting”.

Concert

Monday May 18th 2026

Lully: Fragments amoureux

A celebrated dancer and passionate music lover, Louis XIV met Jean-Baptiste Lully in the early years of his reign. This intelligent, perceptive, and talented violinist quickly became the devoted architect of the Royal Grand Divertissement, alongside Molière. Lully was one of the most imaginative opera composers of his time, not to mention his court ballets, comédie-ballets, and hybrid stage works combining theatre and music.

Concert

Thursday May 21st 2026

Haendel: Music for the Royal Fireworks

The famous Music for the Royal Fireworks was composed in 1749 by George Frideric Handel for the festivities honouring the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle. To mark the occasion, King George II commissioned Handel to write festive music to accompany a grand fireworks display over the River Thames. Handel was then a living legend in England, and the magnificent music he composed made a great impression on the public.

Theater

From Tuesday 26th to Sunday May 31st 2026

Molière: Dom Juan

By a semantic shift around the figure of the libertine, my Dom Juan will be very sadistic, very 18th-century French, with the scent of an unmade bed, an atmosphere of Dangerous Liaisons, and an elegant transgressive and pleasure-seeking cynicism. Sadistic because, like this other “great lord and wicked man”, there is pleasure in doing Evil; there is the desire to display impiety and all kinds of excesses.

Concert

Saturday May 30th 2026

Christine de suède

The life of Christina of Sweden seems straight out of a novel – or better yet, an opera. Born on 18 December 1626 in Stockholm, she ended her days in Rome in 1689 after an exile that led her to encounter more and more protagonists throughout the different acts of her life. A great lover and patron of the arts, her life was marked by the omnipresence of music, of which she was a major supporter. This concert musically retraces her life in three acts – and a prologue – through works she might have heard or even commissioned.

Opera in concert

Tuesday June 2nd 2026

Rameau: Les boréades

To mark the ensemble’s tenth anniversary, a nocte temporis continues its exploration of French Baroque opera. A masterpiece of the genre and the last work by the undisputed master of French baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Boréades tells the story of the thwarted love between Alcidiane, a young princess, and one of the sons of Boreas, the god of the north wind. Avant-garde, critical, and irreverent towards the powers that be, the work was neither performed nor published during the composer’s lifetime, when he died a few months after the première was cancelled.

Opera in staged version

From Friday 5th to Sunday June 7th 2026

Gasparini: L'avare

The reform of Italian opera in the 18th century was largely inspired by French theatre, and Molière resounded on opera stages. Consisting of three singing characters and a fourth mute one, accompanied by a light orchestral ensemble, Il Vecchio Avaro is an intermezzo (the most famous example of which remains Pergolesi’s La serva padrona, protagonist of the famous Querelle des Bouffons in 1752).

Concert

Monday June 8th 2026

Boismortier: the seasons

Although it is not known to what mysterious figures they were dedicated, the cantatas of Joseph de Boismortier’s Quatre Saisons, published in 1724, resonate with the splendour of courtly festivities and the eloquence of the salons de conversation. The libretto, written by an anonymous but certainly romantic hand, unfolds its poetry through the seasons, and the composer seems to have enjoyed recreating all its subtleties in his music.

Concert

Friday June 12th 2026

Bach: Cantates II 'Actus tragicus'

The Leipzig Bachfest invited its audiences to choose the works for two Bach cantata programmes filled with masterpieces: John Eliot Gardiner responded to the public’s preferences by composing two programmes based on these suggestions.

Concert

Thursday June 11th 2026

Bach: Cantates I 'The Road to Emmaus'

Concert

Wednesday June 17th 2026

Henry Du Mont: Grands Motets pour la Chapelle de Louis XIV

A major figure in France’s musical heritage, Henry Du Mont is at the heart of the work carried out for thirty years by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, which is about to complete a full edition of his works. To mark this achievement, the Pages and the Singers of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles are joining forces with the ensemble Les Folies françoises to perform a series of previously unheard grand motets.

Opera in staged version

From Thursday 18th to Tuesday June 23rd 2026

Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio

In 1781, the young Mozart left the city of Salzburg and his position with Archbishop Colloredo, with whom he no longer got along. He then settled in Vienna, the musical capital, which he set out to conquer. To make a name for himself in the opera world, the young composer took advantage of a commission from Emperor Joseph II for the Burgtheater. He then composed an opera that moved away from the highly codified opera seria to develop a more national genre: the singspiel, a musical comedy that would be his first opera in the German language.

Opera in staged version

From Saturday 27th to Sunday June 28th 2026

Gluck: The Cinesi

A rare and lively work, Gluck’s Le cinesi takes us to a fantasy orient, typical of the rococo taste for the exotic. Composed in 1754, this little gem of a comic opera features three young Chinese women and a young man, brought together for a musical joust in which each tries to seduce through song. Gluck has fun parodying the operatic styles of his time, from the tragic to the heroic, in a score that is lively, elegant, and full of humour.

Concert

Monday July 6th 2025

Bach: Keyboard concertos

After a highly successful programme combining Mozart and Jadin last season, young keyboardist Justin Taylor returns to the Versailles stage, swapping the pianoforte for an immersion into the abundant world of Baroque harpsichord writing.

Ballet

From Thursday 9th to Sunday July 12th 2026

Malandain Ballet Biarritz: Marie-Antoinette

The last Queen of France, with her exceptional, tragic, and glamorous destiny, deserved a ballet: Thierry Malandain has tailored a made-to-measure costume for her in a colourful production deeply devoted to Versailles and its Royal Opera.

Concert

Monday July 13th 2026

Vivaldi: The four seasons

Vivaldi’s famous The Four Seasons, published in Amsterdam in 1725, were so successful that they almost overshadow his other concertos (of which there are more than five hundred!). Although they owe their success to a particularly expressive and virtuosic “programme music”, Vivaldi was already a master in demand throughout Europe, and his success in opera put him at the forefront of Italian composers, to the point of being particularly admired and performed in France, and of being asked by the French ambassador in Venice to write works in honour of Louis XV.

Concert

Tuesday July 14th 2026

vivaldi: the four seasons

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