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.
All shows The 2024-2025 musical season
SHOWS at the palace
With this exceptional new program, the Royal Opera offers six new productions:
- Dido and Aeneas by Purcell
- Sonya Yoncheva chante Noël at the Royal Chapel
- Polifemo by Porpora
- L’Uomo femina by Galuppi
- Carmen by Bizet
- The Daughter of the Regiment by Donizetti
This program marks the return of some great productions:
- The Magic Flute by Mozart
- David And Jonathas by Charpentier
- Le Carnaval Baroque imagined by Vincent Dumestre
- La Senna Festeggiante by Vivaldi in the incredible setting of the Queen's Theatre
In concert, here are rare works from the repertoire: Francesca Caccini's Alcina, the first opera by a woman composer, Philidor's Ernelinde, Princess of Norway and Clérambault's Story of the Adulterous Woman, will rub shoulders with masterpieces of the genre, such as Rameau's Pygmalion, Handel's Alcina, Monteverdi's L’Orfeo and Stefano Landi's, or Handel's monumental Solomon. José de Torres' Requiem of Louis I of Spain, King for 150 days, will be performed exactly 300 years after its premiere in Madrid.
This new program brings together all the generations of artists who have graced the Royal Opera stage: singers Philippe Jaroussky, Reinoud Van Mechelen, Bruno de Sá, Sabine Devieilhe, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Marie Lys, Lisette Oropesa, Gaëlle Arquez and Samuel Mariño. Conductor William Christie celebrates his 80th birthday with two exceptional concerts in this prestigious venue.
The Royal Opera continues its already famous Ring by Wagner with the troupe of the Théâtre National de la Sarre: in 2025, Siegfried will be presented under the direction of Sébastien Rouland, for yet another extraordinary musical moment.
Sacred music concerts at the Royal Chapel complete the program: Handel's Messiah, Monteverdi's Vespers of the Virgin, Mozart's Requiem and Brahms' Requiem, Charpentier's Midnight Mass and Bach's Cantatas will make this incomparable edifice resound.
Over the coming season, the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal will be in the spotlight in the pit and in the Chapel, with more than 20 productions and over 40 performances on the program, not to mention tours in France and abroad, often accompanied by the Chœur de l’Opéra Royal. And his musicians will be celebrating Johann Strauss's Bicentenary with you as a New Year's concert!
The Royal Opera will also welcome for the first time Molière's mythical The Miser, played by Jérôme Deschamps, and, following its triumph in 2023, will revive Fabrice Luchini's La Fontaine et le confinement. Several exceptional ballets will be on offer: Thierry Malandain's powerful Marie-Antoinette, the Soloists of the San Carlo Theatre Ballet in Naples in a program by Jerome Robbins, and Angelin Preljocaj's latest creation, Requiem(s).
special evenings
Experience an exceptional moment at the Palace of Versailles, with a show at the heart of your evening, accompanied by cocktails and surprises in sumptuous surroundings. This is what the Royal Opera is offering you for seven productions this season: a timeless, unforgettable experience, as only Versailles can offer...
- Philippe Jaroussky : Passacalle de la Follie, conducted by Christina Pluhar
- Mozart : The Magic Flute, conducted by Hervé Niquet
- The Tree Counter-Tenors, Samuel Mariño, Théo Imart, Rafał Tomkiewicz, conducted by Stefan Plewniak
- Wagner : Siegfried, conducted by Sébastien Rouland
- Junior Balle of Paris Opera
- Charpentier - Actéon, conducted by Chloé de Guillebon
- Vivaldi : La Senna Festeggiante, conducted by Gaétan Jarry
Operas staged version
The Royal Opera hosts sumptuous opera productions that are sure to thrill.
- Purcell Dido and Aeneas, new Royal Opera's production
- Porpora Polifemo, new production by the Royal Opera Academy of Baroque Dance and the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal
- Galuppi L’uomo Femina, new Royal Opera's production
- Mozart The Magic Flute with choreography by Cécile Roussat and Julien Lubek
- Bizet Carmen, new production by Royal Opera, Chœur de l’Opéra Royal and Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal
- Donizetti The Daughter of the Regiment , new production by the Royal Opera, Chœur de l'Armée française, Chœur de l’Opéra Royal and Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal
- Charpentier David And Jonathas, new Royal Opera's production
- Charpentier Actéon, Gala's concert of Opera Academy, Royal Opera's production
- Le Carnaval Baroque imagined by Vincent Dumestre
- Vivaldi La Senna Festeggiante with choreography by Hande Kodja
opera concert version
- MozartThe Duty of the First Commandment
- Monteverdi L’orfeo
- Rameau Pygmalion
- Handel Sosarm, re di Média
- Handel Messiah
- Handel Solomon
- Handel Acis And Galatea
- Caccini Alcina
- Handel Alcina conductor Stéphane Fuget
- Rameau Les Fêtes De Ramire
- Wagner Siegfried
- Philidor Ernelinde, Princesse De Norvège
- Lully Proserpine
- La Morte D'Orfeo de Landi
ballets and theater productions
Ballets
- Jerome Robbins Eternal by the Ballet of Napoli's San Carlo Theater
- Malandain Ballet Biarritz Marie-Antoinette, conducted by Stefan Plewniak, with choreography by Thierry Malandain
- Ballet Preljocaj Requiem(s)
- Junior Ballet of Paris Opera
Theater productions
- Molière The Miser with choreography by Jérôme Deschamps
- Fabrice Luchini La Fontaine Et Le Confinement
Concerts
- Monteverdi Vespro Della Beata Vergine
- Joyaux Du Bel Canto, Gala's concert of ADOR
- Fauré Requiem
- Philippe Jaroussky Passacalle De La Follie
- Recital Marina Viotti
- Charpentier and Italy: Mass for Four Choirs
- Mozart Requiem
- Bruno De Sá recital : Mille Affetti
- Masters of the Chapelle Royale
- Charpentier Midnight Mass
- Brahms : A German Requiem
- Roma with the Namur Chamber Choir Cappella Mediterranea
- Bach / Charpentier : A Baroque Christmas conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
- Kings And Heroes : Recital by Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian featuring Théotime Langlois de Swarte
- Christmas with Sonya Yoncheva
- New Year's Concert : Johann Strauss Bicentenary
- Happy Birthday, Bill ! conducted by William Christie
- De Torres Requiem for Louis 1st of Spain, king for 150 days !
- The Tree Counter-Tenors with Samuel Mariño, Théo Imart and Rafał Tomkiewicz
- Campra Requiem
- Charpentier : Te Deum Handel : Coronation Anthems
- The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci conducted by Jean-Baptiste Nicolas
- Bach The Six Brandebourgeois Concertos
- Marie Lys recital
- The Prodigies of Romanticism conducted by Victor Jacob
- Clérambault Te Deum – Story of the Adulterous Woman
- Music for French Cathedrals in the 17th century
- Bach "Jubilate" Sunday Cantatas conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
- Bach Cantatas For the 16th Sunday after the Trinity Sunday conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
- Janus 2025: of past and present
- Mozart / Jadin Concertos for Pianoforte
- In the Style of the Masters
- Bach Concertos for 1,2,3 Violin(s) conducted by Théotime Langlois de Swarte
- Vivaldi / Guido The Four Seasons
