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from the 19to20 September

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

43rd European Heritage Days

Built between 1741 and 1748, the Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs originally housed the administration of the King’s Menus-Plaisirs, which was responsible for organising the entertainments of the king and the [...]

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Wed 23 September

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Based on listening, gentleness and sharing, the Baby Baroque workshops invite toddlers (0–3 years old) and their parents to experience the Baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes through a sensitive approach. [...]

Concert – Choir school

Sat 10 October

Eglise Saint Gervais, Paris, France

Louis Couperin, 400 years

It was at Saint-Gervais that Louis Couperin became the first organist of a long family dynasty. To celebrate this anniversary, the current titular organists are inviting a host of fellow keyboard players, [...]

Study day – Research

Wed 14 October

Petit Château de Sceaux - pavillon de préfiguration du musée du Grand Siècle, Sceaux, France

The Royal Academy of Music revealed: Different Perspectives on an Anonymous Painting

Speakers Mickaël Bouffard (Sorbonne University - TMS - CELLF) Dominique Brême Benoît Dratwicki (CMBV - CESR) Bruno Forment (Orpheus Instituut) Florence Gétreau (IReMus) Gaëlle Lafage (INHA) Barbara [...]

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Wed 14 October

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Based on listening, gentleness and sharing, the Baby Baroque workshops invite toddlers (0–3 years old) and their parents to experience the Baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes through a sensitive approach. [...]

Conference – Research

Wed 21 October

Bibliothèque musicale La Grange-Fleuret, Paris, France

Des musiciens au service des églises (XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles)

In France, before the Revolution, the musical establishments of cathedrals and collegiate churches employed professional musicians and served as training grounds for musicians of every kind. Since the [...]

Academy

from the 21to25 October

Prague conservatoire, Prague, Czech Republic

Akademie Versailles

Conceived as part of the international partnership between Collegium Marianum , the Summer Festivities of Early Music festival and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, the Akademie Versailles continues [...]

Study day – Research

Thu 22 October

Université d'Artois, Arras, France

16th meeting of the Muséfrem Network: “Learning (through) singing: Choirboys in France in the 18th Century”

Organised in partnership with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, the 16th meeting of the Muséfrem Network devotes its study day to choirboys in France. Drawing on the data assembled by this [...]

Concert

Sun 25 October

Prague conservatoire, Prague, Czech Republic

Akademie Versailles

Conceived as part of the international partnership between Collegium Marianum , the Summer Festivities of Early Music festival and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, the Akademie Versailles continues [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 5 November

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Un bouquet de myrrhe

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Seminar – Research

Fri 6 November

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Circulation and Transfer in 18th Century European Theatre: Rewritings and Professional Mobility

Speakers Lorena Vallieri (University of Florence - SAGAS) Yseult Martinez (Sorbonne University - Roland Mousnier Center) Francesca Fantappiè (University of Milan) The Centre de musique baroque [...]

Study day – Research

Mon 9 November

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Between tradition and innovation: approaches to reed-making for period instruments

Speakers  Peter Nahon (CNRS - CMBV) Lola Soulier (University of Tours - CMBV) Jean-Louis Epain Bernard Desblancs Mathys Marie Nolwenn Zaour Simon Froger Gaëtan Polteau As part of the [...]

Concert – Choir school

Thu 12 November

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Lalande – Charpentier : Te Deum

Born in 1657, Michel-Richard de Lalande was successively a choirboy, an organist, and then sous-maître of the Chapelle royale following the famous 1683 competition, succeeding Henry Du Mont and Pierre [...]

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Wed 18 November

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Based on listening, gentleness and sharing, the Baby Baroque workshops invite toddlers (0–3 years old) and their parents to experience the Baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes through a sensitive approach. [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 19 November

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Petits motets by Henry Du Mont

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Symposium – Research

from the 20to21 November

Maison Française d’Oxford, Oxford, Royaume-Uni

Lalande’s Legacy: from Fame to Posterity

Scientific Committee Rémy Campos (CNSMDP / HEM Genève - Neuchâtel - HES-SO) Thierry Favier  (University of Poitiers - IUF) Bénédicte Hertz (CMBV - CESR) Thomas Leconte (CMBV - CESR) Deborah Mawer [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 26 November

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Moulinié : Cantique de Moïse and Litanies

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 3 December

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Christmas concert

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 10 December

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Musiques royales et instruments rois

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

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Wed 16 December

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Based on listening, gentleness and sharing, the Baby Baroque workshops invite toddlers (0–3 years old) and their parents to experience the Baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes through a sensitive approach. [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 17 December

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Christmas concert (rerun)

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 7 January

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

The Clicquot organ in all its glory

With the aim of showcasing the Clicquot organ, which stands majestically in the Royal Chapel, this concert – presented with verve and a touch of humour – will offer an opportunity to appreciate all the [...]

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Wed 13 January

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Based on listening, gentleness and sharing, the Baby Baroque workshops invite toddlers (0–3 years old) and their parents to experience the Baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes through a sensitive approach. [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 14 January

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Music for Marie-Antoinette

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Stage production

from the 16to17 January

Opéra Royal du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Le Carnaval de Venise

Edited by the CMBV and recorded following a series of concerts with Le Concert Spirituel in 2010, as part of the “Grandes Journées Campra”, Le Carnaval de Venise was subsequently recreated as a staged [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 21 January

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Pergolesi - Stabat Mater

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Seminar – Research

Fri 29 January

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Antiquity on Stage (15th–17th centuries)

The Centre de musique baroque de Versailles is hosting a new session of the research seminar of the CESR’s ‘The European Stage – Performing Arts, Art of Performance’ research group, devoted to the representation [...]

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Wed 3 February

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Based on listening, gentleness and sharing, the Baby Baroque workshops invite toddlers (0–3 years old) and their parents to experience the Baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes through a sensitive approach. [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 25 February

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Henry Desmarest, le Lully lorrain

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 4 March

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Requiem by Eustache du Caurroy

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Study day – Experimentation – Research

from the 8to 9 March

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

The continuo in French Opera (1669-1791): sources and practices (II)

Speakers Benoît Dratwicki , researcher and artistic director (CMBV - CESR) Julien Dubruque , researcher and editorial manager (CMBV - CESR) Thomas Leconte , researcher and editorial manager (CMBV - CESR) [...]

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Wed 10 March

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Based on listening, gentleness and sharing, the Baby Baroque workshops invite toddlers (0–3 years old) and their parents to experience the Baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes through a sensitive approach. [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 11 March

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Cantica Sacra et autres Meslanges

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 18 March

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

L’Italie de retour à Paris

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Concert – Choir school

Fri 19 March

Auditorium Rainier III, Monaco, Principauté de Monaco

Charpentier : Vêpres à la Vierge

In the 1680s, Jesuit ceremonies were among the most spectacular in the capital. The liturgy became a form of sound architecture: choirs answered one another from one gallery to the next, orchestras engaged [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 1 April

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Carte blanche for the Canterbury Choir

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Seminar – Research

Thu 1 April

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Concerts and Sociability in the 18th Century

Le Concert in the French provinces have recently been the subject of major research at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, particularly through the AcadéC project, leading to a reassessment [...]

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Wed 21 April

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Based on listening, gentleness and sharing, the Baby Baroque workshops invite toddlers (0–3 years old) and their parents to experience the Baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes through a sensitive approach. [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 22 April

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

In all its glory: the pomp and greatness of the Grand Siècle

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 29 April

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

La grotte de Versailles by Lully

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Concert – Choir school

Thu 6 May

Cathédrale Saint-Étienne (Cité musicale-Metz), Metz, France

Henry Desmarest, le Lully lorrain

Baroque and romantic, such was the life of Henry Desmarest. Born in Paris in 1661, he first served as a Page of the Chapelle royale and sang in the choirs of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s tragédies lyriques. [...]

Study day – Experimentation – Research

from the 12to13 May

Maison Française d’Oxford, Oxford, Royaume-Uni

‘Lyrical Recitation’ in France, Italy and England in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: A Different Perspective on the Concept of Style

Speakers  Barbara Nestola (CESR - CMBV) Benoît Dratwicki (CMBV - CESR) Jonathan Williams (St Hilda’s College, University of Oxford) As part of its three-year partnership with the Maison Française [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 13 May

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Carte blanche for partner conservatoires

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

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Wed 19 May

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Based on listening, gentleness and sharing, the Baby Baroque workshops invite toddlers (0–3 years old) and their parents to experience the Baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes through a sensitive approach. [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 20 May

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

The organ and polyphony at the Collège Louis-le-Grand in 1690

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 27 May

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Carte blanche for the former Chantres

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Jeudi musical – Choir school

Thu 3 June

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Charpentier and 21st-century polyphony

This season will, in particular, explore the musical repertoire, which is as rich as it is little-known, of 17th century French cathedrals, featured on the 2026 Château de Versailles Spectacles recording [...]

Concert – Choir school

Fri 11 June

Manège de la Grande Écurie du château de Versailles - Académie équestre de Versailles, Versailles, France

Voyage au cœur des opéras de Lully

At a time when the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles is celebrating its 40th anniversary, this concert also echoes another anniversary: the rediscovery of Lully and French opera of the Grand Siècle, [...]

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Wed 23 June

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs - CMBV, Versailles, France

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Based on listening, gentleness and sharing, the Baby Baroque workshops invite toddlers (0–3 years old) and their parents to experience the Baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes through a sensitive approach. [...]

Concert – Choir school

Wed 23 June

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Charpentier : Vêpres à la Vierge

In the 1680s, Jesuit ceremonies were among the most spectacular in the capital. The liturgy became a form of sound architecture: choirs answered one another from one gallery to the next, orchestras engaged [...]