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 2023–2024 music season at Versailles.
All shows The 2023-2024 musical season
SHOWS at the palace
As part of this special new programme, the Royal Opera is staging 13 major productions, including four new “house” operas:
- Zingarelli’s Romeo and Juliet
- Mozart’s Don Giovanni
- Mozart’s The Abduction from the Seraglio
- Vivaldi’s Gloria e Imeneo
This new season will also feature special guest artists in some unforgettable concerts and shows: John Eliot Gardiner conducting Berlioz’s Les Troyens, William Christie conducting Handel’s Ariodante, Jordi Savall conducting Monteverdi’s Orpheus, plus performances by Sony Yoncheva, Philippe Jaroussky, Jakub Józef Orlińsk and Cecilia Bartoli.
Over the course of the season, the Royal Opera will be celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Palace of Versailles, established in 1623, with iconic French musical works, such as the famous Bourgeois Gentilhomme by Molière and Lully, the Naissance de Versailles (Birth of Versailles) concert with the Consecration Mass of Louis XIII’s Palace, Rameau’s comic operatic ballet Platée, Charpentier’s and Lully’s Te Deum, and Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse (Don Quixote visits the Duchess), by Boismortier.
In terms of dance performances, Thierry Malandin will be staging his new production Les Quatre Saisons (The Four Seasons) based on the music of both Vivaldi’s and Guido’s Four Seasons. Angelin Preljocaj returns with the magnificent ballet Blanche Neige (Snow White) and his Homage to Russian Ballets.
Operas staged version
The Royal Opera is hosting magnificent operatic productions that are sure to captivate you.
- Zingarelli: Romeo and Juliet, conducted by Stefan Plewniak
- Mozart: Don Giovanni, conducted by Gaétan Jarry
- Boismortier: Don Quichotte chez la Duchesse, conducted by Hervé Niquet
- Gluck / Berlioz : Orpheus and Eurydice, conducted by Václav Luks
- Mozart: The Abduction from the Seraglio, conducted by Gaétan Jarry
- Handel: Julius Caesar, featuring Cecilia Bartoli
- Cecilia Bartoli / John Malkovich: Duel of the stars
- Monteverdi: Orpheus, conducted by Jordi Savall
- Vivaldi: Gloria e Imeneo, conducted by Stefan Plewniak
opera concert version
- Berlioz: Les Troyens, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
- Handel: Ariodante, conducted by William Christie
- Mozart: Mitridate, re di Ponto, conducted by Marc Minkowski
- Monteverdi: The Coronation of de Poppaea, conducted by Stéphane Fuget
- Gasparini: Atalia, conducted by Emmanuel Resche-Caserta
- Lully: Atys, conducted by Christophe Rousset
- Lully: Alceste, conducted by Stéphane Fuget
- Wagner: The Valkyrie, conducted by Sébastien Rouland
- Rameau: Platée, conducted by Valentin Tournet
- Cimarosa: L’Olimpiade, conducted by Christophe Rousset
- Rameau: Les Boréades, conducted by Václav Luks
- Destouches: Télémaque et Calypso, conducted by Sylvain Sartre and Margaux Blanchard
- Purcell: The Fairy-Queen, conducted by William Christie
- Colin de Blamont: Les Fêtes Grecques et Romaines, conducted by Valentin Tourne
ballets
- Les Quatre Saisons with choreography by Thierry Malandain
- Blanche Neige with choreography by Angelin Preljocaj
- Hommage aux Ballets Russes with choreography by Angelin Preljocaj
- Molière/Lully: Le Bourgois Gentilhomme with La Révérence Ensemble
Concerts
- Concert of the Gala of Ador with the Royal Opera Orchestra
- La Naissance de Versailles conducted by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas
- Mozart: Requiem conducted by Raphaël Pichon
- The Crown with the Royal Opera Choir and Orchestra
- Bach: Cantatas conducted by Raphaël Pichon
- Philippe Jaroussky recital: Airs Oubliés
- Jakub Józef Orliński recital: Beyond
- Charpentier/Lully: Te Deum with Le Poème Harmonique
- Mozart/Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Concertos for violin with Théotime Langlois de Swarte
- Campra: Requiem conducted by William Christie
- Récital Sonya Yoncheva : Noël à Versailles
- Bach: Christmas Oratorio conducted by Valentin Tournet
- Haendel : Le Messie with the Royal Opera Choir and Orchestra
- Bach: Concertos for 1.2.3 violin(s) with Théotime Langlois de Swarte
- Monteverdi : Vêpres de la Vierge conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón
- The Three Counter-Tenors: Bruno de Sá, Théo Imart, Nicolò Balducci
- Charpentier: Missa Assumpta est Maria conducted by Gaétan Jarry
- Samuel Mariño Recital
- Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia conducted by Vincent Dumestre
- Beethoven: The Emperor with the Royal Opera Orchestra
- Bach: Cantatas conducted by Sébastien Daucé
- Handel: Israel in Egypt conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
- Couperin: Leçons de Ténèbres Royal Opera Choir and Orchestra
- Vivaldi/Pergolèse: Stabat Mater pour deux castrats with the Royal Opera Orchestra
- Bach: The Passion of Saint John conducted by Gaétan Jarry
- Bach: Mass in B Minor conducted by Raphaël Pichon
- Monteverdi: Selva Morale e Spirituale with Le Poème Harmonique
- Mozart: The Great Mass in C Minor with the National Orchestra of the Île-de-France
- Au Service de Sa Majesté with Sébastien Daucé
- Vivaldi/Guido: Les Quatre Saisons with the Royal Opera Orchestra