Le Carnaval de Venise

Published by the CMBV and recorded following a series of performances with Le Concert Spirituel in 2020 for the Campra festival, Le Carnaval de Venise  was turned into a stage version in the [...]

The new French Hautboy

Invited by the French Institute in the UK, the CMBV will describe the scientific research that went into the rebuilding of 17th century French oboes. For the occasion, the instruments will be presented [...]

French Baroque operatic masterpieces

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Discovery Day: workshop, guided tour, treasure hunt & Meet-a-Researcher events

The ‘Meeting with a researcher’ originally scheduled for 5pm has been cancelled. We apologise for this change and thank you for your understanding. 10 am – 5 pm NEW! Digital treasure hunt – [...]

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

The Baby Baroque workshops offer 45 minute sessions of relaxed listening and sharing led by CMBV teacher Sylvie Goueffon - combining baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes with a presentation of vocals [...]

Italy in Paris (2/2)

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Church service in Reims cathedral, 1760

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Musical gems from 17th century Italy

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

A concert in Lyon in the 18th century

This concert stems from recent AcadéC research findings, part of the 2022-2026 research project on 18th century Concert Academies led by the CMBV and financed by the French research agency, to shed fresh [...]

Le Carnaval de Venise

Published by the CMBV and recorded following a series of performances with Le Concert Spirituel in 2020 for the Campra festival, Le Carnaval de Venise  was turned into a stage version in the [...]

Petits motets by Nicolas Bernier

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

The Baby Baroque workshops offer 45 minute sessions of relaxed listening and sharing led by CMBV teacher Sylvie Goueffon - combining baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes with a presentation of vocals [...]

Airs & Reveries for flute

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Persée

In the wake of Marais’ Ariane et Bacchus , Charpentier’s Médée  and Desmaret & Campra’s Iphigénie en Tauride , Lully’s Persée  has been chosen to close the Baroque tetralogy [...]

Discovery Day: workshop, guided tour, treasure hunt & Meet-a-Researcher events

10 am – 5 pm NEW! Digital treasure hunt – La saga Papillon à Versailles Delve into the closely guarded secrets at 22 Avenue de Paris in Versailles. Built under Louis XV it is crammed with [...]

ICCARE: Score and digital

This event will bring together publishers, engravers, musicologists, researchers, musicians, librarians, booksellers, lawyers, developers and educators to explore together the challenges and opportunities [...]

AcadéC – Académies de Concert in France, 1710-1770

Programme CONTRIBUTORS SESSION  Research project news and life PUBLIC SESSION Moderator Sylvie Bouissou  (CNRS - IReMus) Participants Thomas Soury [...]

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

The Baby Baroque workshops offer 45 minute sessions of relaxed listening and sharing led by CMBV teacher Sylvie Goueffon - combining baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes with a presentation of vocals [...]

Symphonies by Desmazures

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Concert de la Loge, 10th Anniversary concert

The CMBV has been a partner of the Concert de la Loge orchestra since it started up in 2015, and participates in this exceptional event celebrating its tenths anniversary at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. [...]

Ceremony of Carols

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Le Carnaval de Venise

Published by the CMBV and recorded following a series of performances with Le Concert Spirituel in 2020 for the Campra festival, Le Carnaval de Venise  was turned into a stage version in the [...]

Early cantatas

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Discovery Day: workshop, guided tour, treasure hunt & Meet-a-Researcher events

10 am – 5 pm NEW! Digital treasure hunt – La saga Papillon à Versailles Delve into the closely guarded secrets at 22 Avenue de Paris in Versailles. Built under Louis XV it is crammed with [...]

José de Torrès: Requiem for Louis I of Spain

King Philip V of Spain (1683-1746), grandson of Louis XIV, ascended the Spanish throne in 1700 and deployed active foreign policies from1722, notably marrying his daughter Marie-Anne-Victoire of Spain [...]

Rameau’s Pygmalion

Following the trilogy devoted to the haute-contre , Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble a nocte temporis embark on a new project in association with the CMBV and the Grand Manège de Namur - an exploration [...]

Cantanti e virtuose di musica in Italia e in Francia nel Seicento

Program session chairman Mila De Santis (Università di Firenze) Teresa M. Gialdroni (Università di Roma Tor Vergata) Speakers Antonella D’Ovidio (Università di Firenze) Per [...]

Médée et Jason

In the wake of their previous productions (Véronique Gens’ recital Passion, one-act operas by Rameau and Bury and sacred music by Charpentier and Desmarest), Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas and his [...]

Choral music in Germany

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Discovery Day: workshop, guided tour, treasure hunt & Meet-a-Researcher events

2 am – 5 pm NEW! Digital treasure hunt – La saga Papillon à Versailles Delve into the closely guarded secrets at 22 Avenue de Paris in Versailles. Built under Louis XV it is crammed with [...]

À la venue de Noël

Christmas music has been around for centuries and belong to our collective memory, bridging popular and serious music. Many composers were inspired to write a Christmas Mass, notably Minoret, Brossard [...]

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

The Baby Baroque workshops offer 45 minute sessions of relaxed listening and sharing led by CMBV teacher Sylvie Goueffon - combining baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes with a presentation of vocals [...]

Choirmaster carte blanche

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

AcadéC – Académies de Concert in France, 1710-1770

Programme CONTRIBUTORS SESSION  Research project news and life PUBLIC SESSION Moderator Pascal Dénecheau (IReMus) Speakers Natasha Roule (independent [...]

Christmas concert

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Use of Archives in Stage Productions

Program Moderators Anne-Madeleine Goulet  (CESR – CNRS) Laurent Guillo (CESR – CMBV) INTRODUCTION Anne-Madeleine Goulet  (CESR – CNRS) Laurent Guillo (CESR – [...]

The Kingdom of France & the Savoy States - Festivities, Stage Productions & Artistic Creations in the County of Nice under the Ancien Régime

Program Thursday the 7th of november chair of sessions Barbara Nestola  (CMBV – CESR) Bénédicte Louvat  (Sorbonne Université) Speakers Pierre-Yves Beaurepaire [...]

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

The Baby Baroque workshops offer 45 minute sessions of relaxed listening and sharing led by CMBV teacher Sylvie Goueffon - combining baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes with a presentation of vocals [...]

Spotlight on the Tours and Deslauriers manuscripts (1/2)

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Discovery Day: workshop, guided tour, treasure hunt & Meet-a-Researcher events

10 am – 5 pm NEW! Digital treasure hunt – La saga Papillon à Versailles Delve into the closely guarded secrets at 22 Avenue de Paris in Versailles. Built under Louis XV it is crammed with [...]

Divertissements galants

Ensemble Diderot and artistic director and violinist Johannes Pramsohler specialise in string instrument music, and pursue their exploration of French repertoire alongside the CMBV in conjunction with [...]

Italy in Paris (1/2)

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Jephté

The Sleeping Beauties theme offers a chance to hear rarely or never-performed works, such as Messe à six voix by Jean Colin, symphonies by Charles Desmazures or motets from the Tours et Deslauriers [...]

Rameau’s Pygmalion

Following the trilogy devoted to the haute-contre , Reinoud Van Mechelen and his ensemble a nocte temporis embark on a new project in association with the CMBV and the Grand Manège de Namur - an exploration [...]

Médée et Jason

In the wake of their previous productions (Véronique Gens’ recital Passion, one-act operas by Rameau and Bury and sacred music by Charpentier and Desmarest), Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas and his [...]

In the footsteps of Marc-Antoine Charpentier

In February 1704, after years of loyal service as music director at the Sainte Chapelle, Marc-Antoine Charpentier died leaving behind a large corpus, recognised over three centuries later as some of France’s [...]

In the footsteps of Marc-Antoine Charpentier

In February 1704, after years of loyal service as music director at the Sainte Chapelle, Marc-Antoine Charpentier died leaving behind a large corpus, recognised over three centuries later as some of France’s [...]

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

The Baby Baroque workshops offer 45 minute sessions of relaxed listening and sharing led by CMBV teacher Sylvie Goueffon - combining baroque repertoire and nursery rhymes with a presentation of vocals [...]

Discovery Day: workshop, guided tour, treasure hunt & Meet-a-Researcher events

10 am – 5 pm NEW! Digital treasure hunt – La saga Papillon à Versailles Delve into the closely guarded secrets at 22 Avenue de Paris in Versailles. Built under Louis XV it is crammed with [...]

Les Menus-Plaisirs des Chantres

The Chantres teaching team at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles will be engaging students in advanced training in baroque singing in a three-day opera workshop from 21 to 23 October 2024. [...]

14th Muséfrem Event

The latest Muséfrem project (Musiciens d’Église en France à l'époque moderne ) to be held at Artois university in association with Clermont-Auvergne university and the CMBV, will present material, [...]

Baby Baroque: music workshop for little ones

Baby Baroque is a multisensory experience devised by the CMBV for mothers-to-be, babies under 3 years old and their parents. A series of ten Wednesday workshops are scheduled at the Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs [...]

European Heritage Open Days – 41st Event

The Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs was built between 1741 and 1748, initially to house the department in charge of royal festivities and entertainments. It served as a repository for the stage props and decor [...]

Visual Dramaturgies (1500–1800)

In collaboration with Sorbonne University, the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles is organising an international colloquium devoted to the "dramaturgy of the visible" between the 16th and 18th [...]

Visual Dramaturgies (1500–1800)

Program committee Renaud Bret-Vitoz (CELLF / Sorbonne Université) Georges Forestier (CELLF / Sorbonne Université) Rebecca Harris-Warrick (Cornell University) Ulla Kallenbach (Bergen University) Bénédicte [...]

Les Rencontres des Menus-Plaisirs

The Centre de musique baroque de Versailles invites you to the Rencontres des Menus-Plaisirs, a series of lectures at the Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs. TUESDAY 04 JUNE 2024 - 6PM Jouer Molière aujourd'hui [...]

Charpentier in majesty

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th  century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

The Stuarts and their Music in France (1689-1718) – fresh avenues of research

Program First session (10h-12h) INTRODUCTION Barbara Nestola  (CESR - CMBV) Matteo Giannelli  (Rome university Tor Vergata - CMBV) MODerator Barbara [...]

The Cantata in 18th century France

Programme Nathalie Berton-Blivet  (IReMus, CNRS) Comment lire les cantates à grands effectifs ? Cette communication abordera la cantate à grands effectifs, qui met en œuvre des [...]

Parade baroque

« On raconte que Jacques Séguier, seigneur de La Verrière est le descendant d’un dénommé Sergeste, compagnon du Héros troyen, Enée, qui s’enfuit pour aller créer Rome après la chute de Troie… Il [...]

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]

Télémaque

Les Ombres, directed by Sylvain Sartre and Margaux Blanchard, joined the residency project in 2020, resulting in three French Baroque concerts and a recording of grands motets by Royal Chapel music master [...]

Splendeurs du petit motet français

Référence pour la musique baroque française, le chœur des Pages et des Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV) s’inspire des effectifs vocaux de la Chapelle royale à la fin du règne [...]

La Journée du clavecin invite le violon baroque

Programme From 2pm to 6pm EXHIBITION  Exhibition of baroque violins and harpsichords, introduction to the T@lenschool digital applications (La musique se joue aussi en numérique ! [...]

Ernelinde princesse de Norvège

In the wake of Grétry’s Barbe-Bleue, the CMBV and the Orkester Nord directed by Martin Wåhlberg pursue their exploration of late 18th century opera. Ernelinde princesse de Norvège seemed an obvious [...]

Une soirée en chantant !

The primary school choirs of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles offer you a festive and musical experience based on a rich and varied repertoire from the Baroque period to the present day. To [...]

The Pléiade in music

With its creation and double album devoted to La Pléiade en musique , the Compagnie Outre Mesure honours the famous poets of La Pléiade. Of the thirty or so texts on offer, two-thirds of the programme [...]

Une année de musique de chambre

The 17 singers from the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles - students on advanced professional training in baroque singing - accompanied by their conductors, invite you to a chamber music audition. [...]

Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting

BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]

Lutheran Mass, G minor BWV 235

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th  century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting

BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]

Éclats royaux

Ce concert explore les liens entre la musique de l'époque et l'œuvre du peintre Noël Coypel, l'une des figures marquantes au XVIIe  siècle des grands décors sculptés que l’on retrouve notamment [...]

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]

About the manuscript of Deslauriers

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th  century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Cantiques spirituels et Idylle sur la paix by Collasse and Lully

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th  century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Psalms of David by Schütz

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th  century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

AcadéC – Music Academies in the 18th century

Programme CONTRIBUTORS SESSION Invitation à croiser les données des programmes AcadéC et ACA-RES  (Les Académies d’art et leurs réseaux dans la France préindustrielle) Guest: [...]

Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting

BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]

Un juste tempérament de joie et de crainte : Michel Lamy

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Janus

Like Janus, the double-faced Roman god who looks towards both the past and the future, for several years the CMBV has teamed up with the Ircam research institute, commissioning for its choir Les Pages [...]

Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting

BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]

Médée et Jason

In the wake of their previous productions (Véronique Gens’ recital of Passion , one-act operas by Rameau and Bury, and sacred music by Charpentier and Desmarest), Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas and his [...]

ThéPARis-France – Theatres in France under the Ancien Régime

Program moderators Tiphaine Karsenti (Université Paris-Nanterre, HAR) Théodora Psychoyou (Sorbonne Université, IReMus) speakers Emanuele De Luca  (Université Côte d’Azur, CTELA) Introduction [...]

Requiem and Coronation Mass

Mathieu Lussier, artistic director of Arion Baroque Orchestra in Montreal, is passionate about French Baroque music. His collaboration with the CMBV since 2021 has already produced two record albums, the [...]

Atys

In the wake of Rameau’s Zoroastre, Francoeur’s Symphonies pour le Festin royal de Monseigneur le comte d’Artois and Mondonville’s Carnaval du Parnasse, the spotlight now focuses on the Grand Siècle. [...]

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]

ThéPARis-France – Theatres in France under the Ancien Régime

Program Moderators Camilla Cederna (Université de Lille, CECILLE) Speakers Caroline Grapa (Université de Lille, ALITHILA) La première de Mahomet ou le fanatisme de Voltaire à [...]

Little motets for equal voices

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting

BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]

AcadéC – Music Academies in the 18th century

Program CONTRIBUTORS SESSION Vie du projet Retour de collecte Ludivine Panzani (Université de Lille – IRHiS) Sur les traces de l’Académie de musique de Nancy, une institution [...]

Travel to Saintes, motets of Louis Grénon

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

ThéPARis-France – Theatres in France under the Ancien Régime

Program moderators Sophie Marchand Julien Goeury (Sorbonne Université, CELLF) speakers François Rémond (Sorbonne Nouvelle, CRTHT) Le Voyage comique : circulation des interprètes [...]

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]

Médée et Jason

In the wake of their previous productions (Véronique Gens’ recital of Passion , one-act operas by Rameau and Bury, and sacred music by Charpentier and Desmarest), Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas and his [...]

Iphigénie en Tauride

In the wake of Marais’ Ariane et Bacchus (2022) and Charpentier’s Médée (2023), this little known Iphigénie en Tauride is now being resuscitated. Long before Gluck’s better known version, Iphigénie [...]

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]

Te Deum

Everyone will recognise the opening bars of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Te Deum , but few are familiar with Henry Desmarest’s equally stunning Lyon Te Deum . Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas has chosen to [...]

Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting

BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]

ThéPARis-France – Theatres in France under the Ancien Régime

Program moderators Jennifer Ruimi Franck Salaün (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, IRCL) speakers Marine Roussillon (Université d’Arras, IRCL) Le Ballet des incompatibles [...]

Psalms of David by Charpentier

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Carte blanche

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

AcadéC – Music Academies in the 18th century

Programme CONTRIBUTORS SESSION  Actualités et vie du projet Base de données : fonctionnement et calendrier Bénédicte Hertz (CMBV, CESR) Pauline Lemaigre-Gaffier (Dypac, UVSQ-Paris [...]

Requiem by Bouteiller

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]

Passion

Three years ago, during their joint residency with the Sinfonia en Périgord festival and the CMBV, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas and his ensemble Les Surprises invited soprano Véronique Gens to join [...]

Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting

BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]

Messe de minuit by Charpentier

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th  century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Les Sauvages, advent of the concerto in France

The Ensemble Diderot, specialists of string instrument music, and artistic director Johannes Pramsohler have concocted a programme featuring the concerto across a wide range of formats and styles.  It [...]

Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting

BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]

Penthée

Penthée is an opera in Five Acts and a Prologue written by the Regent to be Philippe d’Orléans, with a libretto by Charles-Auguste de la Fare based on Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It was first performed before [...]

Messe Surge propera

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Stage Productions at court during the French Regency (1715-1723)

Program MODERATORS Alexandre Dupilet Petra Dotlačilová (Stockholm University, CMBV-CESR) Thomas Leconte (CMBV-CESR) SPEAKERS José de Los Llanos  (Conservateur [...]

Te Deum

Everyone will recognise the opening bars of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Te Deum , but few are familiar with Henry Desmarest’s equally stunning Lyon Te Deum . Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas has chosen to [...]

Italy in Paris

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Histoires sacrées

The season’s first theme, For Equal Voices, features convent music, music from the royal house of Saint-Cyr, as well as music from the early 18th  century Italianate music salons, showcasing composers [...]

Jéliote

Pierre Jéliote, Rameau’s favourite singer, is probably the most famous haute-contre ever. He is celebrated here, with selections from Rameau, Dauvergne, Colin de Blamont, Mondonville, Rebel, Francœur, [...]

Legros

Reinoud Van Mechelen is a devotee of the haute-contre or French tenor and has become one of its leading proponents. Here he completes his trilogy of three great opera singers, which includes Dumesny at [...]

Discovery Day – workshop, stage production, guided tour, treasure hunt & meeting

BAROQUE NURSERY RHYMES WORKSHOP Les Comptines de Lutèce will transport you into the much loved children’s world of traditional nursery rhymes. The children can sing and dance to selections of 17th [...]

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]

13th Muséfrem study day

In November 1774, the Affiches d’Angers gazette featured an announcement encouraging ‘those who have children aged seven or thereabouts with the right voice and disposition’ to bring their sons to the [...]

Passion

Three years ago, during their joint residency with the Sinfonia en Périgord festival and the CMBV, Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas and his ensemble Les Surprises invited soprano Véronique Gens to join [...]

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

With its focus on listening, peace and sharing, the 45 minute Baby Baroque workshop offers a mixture of baroque music, nursery rhymes and samples of voice and instruments (on the piano, harpsichord [...]

40th European Heritage Days

The Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs was built between 1741 and 1748, initially to house the royal entertainments department. It served as a repository for the stage props and decor used in the plays and operas [...]

Les Boréades

The CMBV’s collaboration with Hungarian conductor György Vashegyi and his Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir ensembles, commenced in 2014 to mark the anniversary of the death of Jean-Philippe Rameau with [...]

Jéliote

Pierre Jéliote, Rameau’s favourite singer, is probably the most famous haute-contre ever. He is celebrated here, with selections from Rameau, Dauvergne, Colin de Blamont, Mondonville, Rebel, Francœur, [...]

Télémaque

Les Ombres, directed by Sylvain Sartre and Margaux Blanchard, joined the residency project in 2020, resulting in three French Baroque concerts and a recording of grands motets by Royal Chapel music master [...]

Les Sauvages, advent of the concerto in France

The Ensemble Diderot, specialists of string instrument music, and artistic director Johannes Pramsohler have concocted a programme featuring the concerto across a wide range of formats and styles.  It [...]

La Jérusalem délivrée ou La Suite d’Armide

La Jérusalem délivrée ou La Suite d’Armide is a tragédie lyrique in a Prologue and Five Acts. It was composed by the future Regent Philippe d’Orléans in the early 18th century and was played by the Musique [...]

In Paradisum

The programme of the first ever collaboration between the CMBV choir Les Chantres and Daniel Cuiller’s Stradivaria ensemble evokes the final glimmers of the baroque world before the collapse of the Ancien [...]

ThéPARis-France

Program MODERATOR Alessandro Di Profio (Sorbonne Nouvelle University) SPEAKERS Benoît Dratwicki (CMBV) De Lyon à Versailles, d’une gloire à l’autre : Mlle Huguenot aux Concerts [...]

1520, music for the Camp du Drap d’Or

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

1520, music for the Camp du Drap d’Or

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Circé

From 4th – 11th June 2023, the Boston Early Music Festival, CMBV partners for over fifteen years, will present a new stage production of one of Henry Desmarest’s finest scores, a tragédie lyrique from [...]

‘Musical academicism’

The advent of public concerts (Académies) from 1710 in around forty French towns was unprecedented. These official institutions, somewhere between a learned society and a public entertainment establishment, [...]

17th & 18th century Court Opera

Knowledge about French opera has considerably improved over the last few decades, thanks to numerous research projects which have since become reference works. However, researchers have tended to focus [...]

Janus

Janus is the Roman deity of beginnings and endings, of choices, gates and transitions. He has two faces, one looking into the past and the other into the future. Mirroring this, for several years now the [...]

The Cantata in 18th century France

SPEAKERS Don Fader Inken Meents With students from the CRR of Paris The French cantata was all the rage in the 18th century and offered composers great [...]

La Jérusalem délivrée ou La Suite d’Armide

La Jérusalem délivrée ou La Suite d’Armide is a tragédie lyrique in a Prologue and Five Acts. It was composed by the future Regent Philippe d’Orléans in the early 18th century and was played by the Musique [...]

ThéPARis-France

Program MODERATOR Fabrice Chassot (Toulouse – Jean Jaurès University) SPEAKERS Amandine de Pérignon (Association des Toulousains de Toulouse ; revue L’Auta ) Philippe Chométy (Toulouse [...]

Sacred music in the reign of Louis XIII (2)

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

André Campra, from sacred to secular

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Lobet ihn mit Posaunen

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Des théâtres de Versailles à l’Académie royale de musique de Paris

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Sacred music in the reign of Louis XIII (1)

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Castor et Pollux

The 1754 second version of Castor et Pollux  is popular in concert form and on stage, whereas the original and considerably different 1737 version with a Prologue is rarely performed. As part [...]

Les Génies ou les Caractères de l'Amour

At a time when female composers from the past are being re-discovered, Camille Delaforge, at the head of her ensemble Il Caravaggio, has chosen to reinstate a unique score and an atypical figure. Mlle [...]

Le Carnaval du Parnasse

An outstanding composer under Louis XV, Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville’s grands motets and operas met with unprecedented success. He was also one of the few musicians to successfully rival the great [...]

Lully : Te Deum

Stéphane Fuget completes his three year residency programme with Château de Versailles Spectacles celebrating the prestigious occasions, royal weddings, military victories and King’s healings centred on [...]

ThéPARis-France

Program 11am — 11:30am Welcome 11:30am — 1pm SPEAKERS  Emanuele De Luca  (Université Côte d'Azur) Bénédicte Louvat  (Sorbonne Université) Barbara Nestola [...]

Journey to Rome (1)

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Journey to Rome (1)

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Journey to Rome (2)

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Médée

Hervé Niquet, a tireless researcher, has always used his ensemble Le Concert Spirituel to promote in particular long-forgotten French music. For over thirty years he has naturally forged close links with [...]

The Triumph of Peace

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Journey to Rome

A trip to Italy was not just for painters and architects, it was a sine qua non for many composers. When Marc-Antoine Charpentier arrived in Rome in the late 1660’s he was undoubtedly impressed by the [...]

Te Deum

Everyone knows the opening bars of Charpentier‘s Te Deum  but few have heard of Henry Desmarest’s equally magnificent so-called Te Deum de Lyon ? Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas has chosen [...]

Motets for Vannes cathedral

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

ThéPARis-France

Program MODERATORS Renaud Bret-Vitoz (Sorbonne University) Andrea Fabiano (Sorbonne University) SPEAKERS Emanuele De Luca (Côte d’Azur University) Bénédicte Louvat (Sorbonne [...]

Mass in G major, D.167 by Franz Schubert

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Sacred stories

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

The Cantata in 18th century France

Programme 10:30 am - 1 pm / Seminar Barbara Nestola (CMBV-CESR) La cantate italienne en France au début du XVIIIe  siècle : modalités de transmission et circulation du répertoire [...]

Tenebris

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Music master carte blanche

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Revival of a programme from the Académie des beaux-arts de Lyon (1713-1773)

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Revival of a programme from the Académie des beaux-arts de Lyon (1713-1773)

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Handel, European musician

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Motets for the Regent

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Te Deum

Everyone knows the opening bars of Charpentier‘s Te Deum  but few have heard of Henry Desmarest’s equally magnificent so-called Te Deum de Lyon ? Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas has chosen [...]

Jéliote

Pierre Jéliote is probably the most famous haute-contre in history and was Rameau’s favourite singer! He is celebrated here by one of today’s most remarkable voices, with a selection of music by Rameau, [...]

Messe des Morts by Jean Gilles

Jean Gilles was born in Tarascon in 1668 and died in Toulouse in 1705. He trained at the Aiix-en-Provence choir school which turned out many illustrious composers such as André Campra and François Estijnne. [...]

Legros

Reinoud Van Mechelen is a devotee of the haute-contre or French tenor voice and has become one of its leading proponents. Here he concludes his trilogy devoted to three giants of opera – starting with [...]

Christmas in Versailles

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Rigel – A Whiff of Revolution

With an insatiable appetite for 17th century French music from Lalande to Gossec, Mathieu Lussier and the Arion ensemble pursue their international partnership with the CMBV. After embarking on music [...]

Missa In aeternum cantabo

Scheduled 24 Novembre 2022 to 1st June 2023 Les Jeudis musicaux concerts are jointly  organised by the CMBV, the public institution of the Palace of Versailles and the Paris CNSMD. Weekly concerts [...]

Iphigénie en Aulide

A devotee of European classical and pre-Romantic music, Julien Chauvin has risen to the challenge during his CMBV joint residency with ADAMA (l’Aisne), namely to use period instruments for a world premiere [...]

Music for the Royal Banquet

Alexis Kossenko, musical perfectionist and dedicated conductor, has forged close relations with the CMBV during his residency at the Atelier lyrique de Tourcoing . Their artistic and academic collaboration [...]

Zoroastre

A fan of the composer and of musicology in general, Alexis Kossenko coproduced Achante et Céphise with the CMBV in 2020. He has now embarked on Zoroastre , another hitherto unperformed work by [...]

Louis XIV’s coronation

In Reims cathedral on 7th June 1654, Louis Dieudonné de Bourbon was crowned King of France and became Louis XIV. This highly important ceremony in the life of a Monarch, imbued with religious drama, was [...]

Expectations of Theatre Artists & Technicians

As witnessed by the capricious demands of singer Antoinette de Saint-Huberty and Lekain’s Mémoires instructing the Gentilshommes de la Chambre , those involved in the business of theatre had clear expectations. [...]

Les Fâcheux

"No theatrical undertaking could be as rushed as this – it is, I feel, unprecedented for a comedy to be devised, written, learned and performed within a mere fortnight”. So said Molière of this stage production [...]

12th Muséfrem event

In 1771-1772, Henri Hardouin, music master at Reims cathedral, proposed his Masses to enrich church repertoire. His offer was rejected by Autun cathedral but met with great success at Metz. In 1786, Guignet, [...]

Concertos by Rigel

The pianoforte, which gradually replaced the harpsichord at Paris salons from the 1770’s, changed piano music in France in the late 18th century. The sonata (with or without accompanying instruments) [...]

Music for the Royal Banquet

Alexis Kossenko, musical perfectionist and dedicated conductor, has forged close relations with the CMBV during his residency at the Atelier lyrique de Tourcoing . Their artistic and academic collaboration [...]

Louis XIV’s coronation

In Reims cathedral on 7th June 1654, Louis Dieudonné de Bourbon was crowned King of France and became Louis XIV. This highly important ceremony in the life of a Monarch, imbued with religious drama, was [...]

Polydore

Concert livestreamed on the Müpa website. EN SAVOIR PLUS   To celebrate the anniversary of the end of the Regency in France, this 2022/23 Season features a production of Polydore, a [...]

From Venice to Paris

Avid historical researcher and violonist Johannes Pramsohler and his Ensemble Diderot have embarked on a three year joint residency project with the CMBV this summer at the Festival du Périgord Noir . [...]

Jéliote, Rameau’s haute-contre

Heading A Nocte Temporis , the Belgian tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen continues his haute-contre trilogy with the cooperation of the CMBV, AMUZ and the Alpha record label. The second part in 2021 focuses [...]

Te Deum

Everyone knows the opening lines of Charpentier’s Te Deum  but this is not the case for Henry Desmarest’s equally dazzling Te Deum  ‘de Lyon’. The CMBV’s third joint residency event at the [...]

Académie in Vác

On the strength of the links forged in 2014 with the Orfeo Orchestra and Purcell Choir under György Vashegyi, the CMBV has created other artistic and educational partnerships in Hungary. In conjunction [...]

Musical and Theatrical Migrations: Performance Practice in 17th and 18th -Century Europe

In 2022, the CMBV’s research unit will join the Centro de Estudos Musicais Setecentistas de Portugal to run an international symposium on the migration of musicians across Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries. [...]

Jéliote, Rameau’s haute-contre

Heading A Nocte Temporis , the Belgian tenor Reinoud Van Mechelen continues his haute-contre trilogy with the cooperation of the CMBV, AMUZ and the Alpha record label. The second part in 2021 focuses [...]

Le Malade Imaginaire, Molière’s comédie-ballet in a Prologue, Three Acts & Three Interludes (1673)

  To celebrate Molière’s 400th anniversary, the Théâtre Molière Sorbonne has joined forces with its artistic and research partners to offer the public an exceptional and totally unique aesthetic [...]

Sacred music and children’s choirs, from Naples to Salzburg

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province, Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs. The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Jeudis musicaux at the Royal Chapel in Versailles 2021 / 2022

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Sacred music and children's choir, from Naples to Salzburg

Music table

While the ritual of the King’s supper in France and Europe helped promote ‘the glorification of a divine Monarch’ (Jean-Pierre Babelon [2]), the upheavals of the Age of Enlightenment, the relaxation [...]

Cantatas in France in the 18th century

The triennial cantata seminar brings together writers, musicologists and musicians involved in this important genre in 18th century France. The three partner institutions host one session per year, followed [...]

[Canceled] Concertos de Rigel

The pianoforte gradually replaced the harpsichord in Paris salons from the 1770’s and stimulated a revival of piano music in France during the latter part of the 18th century. The sonata, with or without [...]

Music for the King’s supper

The music played for the royal table is the theme of this French-Canadian partnership between the CMBV and the Arion ensemble, including Lalande’s famous Symphonies pour le Souper du roy composed for Louis [...]

17th century English Baroque

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province, Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs. The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Jeudis musicaux at the Royal Chapel in Versailles 2021 / 2022

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

3rd ThéPARis seminar

The third edition of the ThéPARis research seminar aims to broaden its scope of investigation. After a first part (2019) dedicated to the significant spaces 'between' institutional, public and professional [...]

For three male voices

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province, Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs. The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Ariane et Bacchus

Le Concert Spirituel with director Hervé Niquet have joined forces with the CMBV to produce a revival of Marin Marais’ little known masterpiece Ariane et Bacchus, which has been specially published for [...]

3rd ThéPARis seminar

The third edition of the ThéPARis research seminar aims to broaden its scope of investigation. After a first part (2019) dedicated to the significant spaces 'between' institutional, public and professional [...]

Table music

While the ritual of the King’s supper in France and Europe helped promote ‘the glorification of a divine Monarch ’ (Jean-Pierre Babelon [2]), the upheavals of the Age of Enlightenment, the relaxation [...]

Sacred music under Louis XIII

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province, Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs. The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Jeudis musicaux at the Royal Chapel in Versailles 2021 / 2022

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Rivals

Sandrine Piau and Véronique Gens, who have been involved in the baroque revival from the start, come together to perform a series of duets portraying two late 18th century stars of the stage, Madame Dugazon [...]

The bizarre, the strange, the extraordinary – and the Baroque!

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province, Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs. The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Miroirs 2

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province, Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs. The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Zoroastre

The joint residency project involving Les Ambassadeurs (director Alexis Kossenko), the CMBV and the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing showcases the great Rameau with a production of the previously unreleased [...]

Music for the King’s supper

The music played for the royal table is the theme of this French-Canadian partnership between the CMBV and the Arion ensemble, including Lalande’s famous Symphonies pour le Souper du roy composed for Louis [...]

3rd ThéPARis seminar

The third edition of the ThéPARis research seminar aims to broaden its scope of investigation. After a first part (2019) dedicated to the significant spaces 'between' institutional, public and professional [...]

3rd ThéPARis seminar

The third edition of the ThéPARis research seminar aims to broaden its scope of investigation. After a first part (2019) dedicated to the significant spaces 'between' institutional, public and professional [...]

Overtures à la française

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Jeudis musicaux at the Royal Chapel in Versailles 2021 / 2022

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Pastorales

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Pastorales set to music

The pastorale, a romantic genre From Molière’s Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Monsieur Jourdain “Why always shepherds? – they are everywhere!” Dancing Master “Singing has always been assigned to [...]

The Maison Royale de Saint-Cyr

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Scylla et Glaucus

The CMBV has commissioned György Vashegyi to produce a new version of the French baroque masterpiece Scylla et Glaucus , Jean-Marie Leclair’s only opera. Vashegyi is an undisputed expert in 17th [...]

Sacred music under Louis XIII

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Table music

While the ritual of the King’s supper in France and Europe helped promote ‘the glorification of a divine Monarch’ (Jean-Pierre Babelon [2]), the upheavals of the Age of Enlightenment, the relaxation [...]

Baroque Europe

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Jeudis musicaux at the Royal Chapel in Versailles 2021 / 2022

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Funeral cantatas

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Miroirs 1

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Passion

Program Arias, dances and choruses from operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Henry Desmarest, Pascal Collasse, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Marin Marais It’s ‘back to Lully’ for Véronique Gens, accompanied [...]

[Postponed] Back to Lully

Following the government's decisions on coronavirus COVID-19, the performance of November 21, 2020 at the Arsenal in Metz is canceled. The performance of March 31, 2021 at the Opéra de Massy is postponed [...]

The Prophets

The prophet theme was launched by the Philharmonie de Paris music museum. The Chantres, in conjunction with CMBV Publications, will be performing two hitherto unpublished cantata for solo voice by André [...]

Early motets by Michel-Richard de Lalande

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province,  Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Jeudis musicaux at the Royal Chapel in Versailles 2021 / 2022

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Singing the tune (Middle Ages through 21st century)

Singing the tune dates back to late Antiquity and the Middle Ages in centonization. It featured widely in popular songs, canticles, spiritual music and carols, and in fairground shows, singing societies, [...]

Sacred music under Louis XIII

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Cantatas in France in the 18th century

The triennial cantata seminar brings together writers, musicologists and musicians involved in this important genre in 18th century France. The three partner institutions host one session per year, followed [...]

Music conductor carte blanche

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Missa Surge propera by François Cosset

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Requiem mass by Jean de Bournonville

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Jeudis musicaux at the Royal Chapel in Versailles 2021 / 2022

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Ernelinde

Littéraires et musicologues, historiens de la musique, de la danse et des costumes joindront leurs efforts pour distinguer les différentes versions de l’œuvre (1767, 1769, 1773 et 1777), afin d’éclairer [...]

A Ceremony of Carols

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Christmas time

Appointed sous-maître at the Royal Chapel alongside Lalande, Collasse and Goupillet for the famous music contest of 1683, Guillaume Minoret composed several grands motets plus a gorgeous Christmas mass [...]

Christmas time

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr , L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Lessons from the Animal Kingdom

The ensemble Les Lunaisiens returns to La Verrière to participate in the La Fontaine en scènes outreach project run by the CMBV since 2019. Arnaud Marzorati and Les Lunaisiens present a grandiose musical [...]

Jeudis musicaux at the Royal Chapel in Versailles 2021 / 2022

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Amours, délices et orgues !

The themes shaping the 2021-2022 season are: Les Musiciens de Province , Paris-Versailles-Saint-Cyr, L’Europe baroque  and Miroirs . The year starts off with two hitherto unpublished grands [...]

Pont-Neuf - young Molière’s stamping ground

Arnaud Marzorati’s ensemble Les Lunaisiens and the CMBV choir Les Pages have produced a CD book about the young Molière whose 400th anniversary falls in 2022. Following a CD book on the fables of [...]

Gender bending

The basse-taille voice preceded the baritone and was popular with 17th and 18th century composers for the portrayal of duplicitous calculating traitors. However, in the spectacular mythological world of [...]

Cantatas in France in the 18th century

The triennial cantata seminar brings together writers, musicologists and musicians involved in this important genre in 18th century France. The three partner institutions host one session per year, followed [...]

11th Muséfrem event

For a long time, only church organists and singers were thought to pursue several professional activities (singing not being required in abbey and parish churches on a daily basis), but gradually evidence [...]

Gervais - Grands Motets

After recording Mondonville’s grand motets in 2015, György Vashegyi now proposes a fresh sample of the Royal Chapel repertoire - several grands motets by Gervais, court musician at Versailles in the [...]

Magnificence

Presenting Gervais, unsung hero of the musical scene, whose fine compositions are imbued with the Italian influence which marked his whole career. Matched against Vivaldi, he added a new slant to the goûts [...]

Magnificence

Presenting Gervais, unsung hero of the musical scene, whose fine compositions are imbued with the Italian influence which marked his whole career. Matched against Vivaldi, he added a new slant to the goûts [...]

Omphale

The CMBV has rescued from obscurity a composer called Cardonne and his opera Omphale which was first performed in 1769, between the musical reign of Rameau and Gluck. This new Hungarian venture, [...]

Sacred dialogue during the Grand Siècle

Alternating the grand organ and the choir was an essential part of liturgy in France during the Ancien Régime. Here, four female singers from the CMBV are led and accompanied by Fabien Armengaud and Nicolas [...]

La Vénitienne

For two years Limoges, in partnership with the CMBV, focuses on French baroque music highlighted by the first ever stage performance of a long forgotten masterpiece, La Barre’s La Vénitienne . Through [...]

Rameau chez la Pompadour

Following the government's decisions on coronavirus COVID-19, the performance of May 4 at the Auditorium of Radio France is only broadcast on France Musique radio.  Programme Bernard de [...]

The early French music copyists' workshops

Speakers Denis Herlin Un scribe mystérieux et prolifique : le cas du copiste Z        Bénédicte Hertz Copier de la musique pour une Académie de Concert : de la constitution [...]

Passion

Program Arias, dances and choruses from operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Henry Desmarest, Pascal Collasse, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Marin Marais It’s ‘back to Lully’ for Véronique Gens, accompanied [...]

[Postponed] Back to Lully

Following the government's decisions on coronavirus COVID-19, the performance of November 21, 2020 at the Arsenal in Metz is canceled. The performance of March 31, 2021 at the Opéra de Massy is postponed [...]

David et Jonathas

The CMBV choir Les Pages & les Chantres transport us to the stage of the prestigious Jesuit college Louis-le-Grand in 1688 with a performance of Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s masterpiece David et Jonathas. [...]

[Canceled] Académie baroque de Versailles

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the Académie Baroque de Versailles is canceled.  The CMBV will be holding its first academy of French baroque song, music and dance in [...]

Grands Motets by Clérambault

The CMBV choir Les Pages & les Chantres and Collegium Marianum have come together to perform Louis-Nicolas Clérambault’s Grands Motets and resurrect these dramatic sacred frescoes, emblematic [...]

Le Roi danse !

The CMBV is deeply involved in early dance and a driving force behind many stage productions, including this one by Marie-Geneviève Massé. As the Sun King aged only memories remained of the young [...]

Akademie Versailles

The fifth Akademie Versailles, organised in Prague by the CMBV and Czech partners Collegium Marianum to promote French baroque music. 2021 will be the fifth Akademie Versailles, an event set up [...]

The early French music copyists' workshops

Speakers   Rebekah Ahrendt The Legacy in Vocal Music of Charles Babel, Prolific Transcriber of Italian Arias Louis Delpech Copistes francophones et ateliers de copistes dans [...]

Music for the Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520

Jeudis musicaux concerts offer a special opportunity to hear the CMBV choir Les Pages & Chantres and other partner conservatoires and ensembles in the magnificent setting of the Royal Chapel at Versailles. [...]

Music for the Field of the Cloth of Gold, 1520

Jeudis musicaux concerts offer a special opportunity to hear the CMBV choir Les Pages & Chantres and other partner conservatoires and ensembles in the magnificent setting of the Royal Chapel at Versailles. [...]

Evocative Gabrieli

Jeudis musicaux concerts offer a special opportunity to hear the CMBV choir Les Pages & Chantres and other partner conservatoires and ensembles in the magnificent setting of the Royal Chapel at Versailles. [...]

Messe à quatre chœurs H4 by Marc-Antoine Charpentier*

Jeudis musicaux concerts offer a special opportunity to hear the CMBV choir Les Pages & Chantres and other partner conservatoires and ensembles in the magnificent setting of the Royal Chapel at Versailles. [...]

The Cantata in 18th century France

Speakers: Marie Demeilliez  (Université Grenoble-Alpes, Institut Universitaire de France) Laura Naudeix  (Université Rennes-II) Le Consort  ensemble (dir. Justin Taylor [...]

Passion

Program Arias, dances and choruses from operas by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Henry Desmarest, Pascal Collasse, Marc-Antoine Charpentier and Marin Marais It’s ‘back to Lully’ for Véronique Gens, accompanied [...]

[Postponed] Back to Lully

Following the government's decisions on coronavirus COVID-19, the performance of November 21, 2020 at the Arsenal in Metz is canceled. The performance of March 31, 2021 at the Opéra de Massy is postponed [...]

Rameau chez la Pompadour

Following the government's decisions on coronavirus COVID-19, the performance of May 4 at the Auditorium of Radio France is only broadcast on France Musique radio.  Programme Bernard de [...]

[Canceled] Henri Frémart, Chapel Master at Notre-Dame de Paris*

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the jeudi musical on May 6 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles is canceled.  Program Music by Henri Frémart Jeudis musicaux [...]

The early French music copyists' workshops

Speakers Jean Duron Les copistes de la collection de musique française manuscrite réunie par Sébastien de Brossard Jean-Philippe Goujon Les autographes de Campra Beverley Wilcox [...]

ThéPARis

Chair: Jean-Noël Laurenti (CESR, Scène européenne) Speakers: Marie Demeilliez (Université de Grenoble) Une grande réunion de danseurs : les ballets du collège jésuite Louis-le-Grand [...]

[Canceled] Les Prophéties des Sibylles by Roland de Lassus

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the jeudi musical on May 20 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles is canceled.  Program Les Prophéties des Sibylles by Roland de [...]

[Canceled] Opera singers and their roles during the early modern period

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic,  the seminar on May 22 at Oxford University is canceled.  In conjunction with Oxford University, the CMBV is holding a seminar [...]

[Canceled] Dies Irae by Jean-Baptiste Lully*

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the jeudi musical on May 27 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles is canceled.  Program Dies Irae by Jean-Baptiste Lully* Jeudis [...]

The early French music copyists' workshops

Speakers Rosalba Agresta Présentation du projet REMDM (BnF-IReMus) Nathalie Berton-Blivet et Fabien Guilloux L'économie de la copie dans une maîtrise capitulaire : l'exemple de [...]

[Canceled] Convent music

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the jeudi musical on April 1 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles is canceled.  Program Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s* Messe pour le [...]

[Canceled] Sacred music under Louis XIII*

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the jeudi musical on April 8 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles is canceled.  Program Motets from Music Manuscript N° 168 [...]

The Cantata in 18th century France

Keynote speaker​: Jérôme Dorival Presentations by: Nathalie Berton-Blivet   (IReMus) Julien Dubruque  (CMBV) Thomas Vernet  (Fondation Royaumont) Programme [...]

[Canceled] The Spirit of the 17th & 18th Centuries

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the jeudi musical on April 15 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles is canceled.  Program Music by Georg Philipp Telemann, Carl Philipp [...]

ThéPARis

Chairs: Dominique Quéro (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, CRIMEL) & Marie-Emmanuelle Plagnol-Diéval (Université Paris-Est Créteil, EA LIS Lettres, Idées, Savoirs) Speakers: [...]

[Postponed] David et Jonathas

Following the government's decisions on coronavirus COVID-19, this event is postponed on July 2021, 8th. Further details .  Programme MUSIC Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) [...]

[Canceled] Sacred music under Louis XIII*

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the jeudi musical on March 4 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles is canceled.  Program Motets from Music Manuscript N° 168 [...]

Les Fêtes d’Hébé ou Les Talents lyriques (1747 version)

Following the government's decisions on coronavirus COVID-19: - The performance of March 8 at the Palace of Arts of Budapest is only broadcast via the Hungarian radio station Bartók Rádió . The pre-concert [...]

ThéPARis

Chairs: Emanuele De Luca (Université Côte d’Azur, CTEL) Barbara Nestola (CNRS, CESR-CMBV) Speakers: Marina Nordera (Université Côte d’Azur, CTEL) and Bruno Benne,  dancer [...]

The early French music copyists' workshops

Speakers Pascal Denécheau et Laurent Guillo Le projet AteCop : méthodologie et premiers résultats​ Alessio Ruffatti Les copies françaises de musique italienne dans la mouvance de [...]

[Canceled] Flos florum, fleur des fleurs

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the jeudi musical on March 11 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles is canceled.  Program Sacred music by Hugo de Lantins, Guillaume [...]

[Canceled] English Baroque from the 17th century

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the jeudi musical on March 18 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles is canceled.  Program Motets by Thomas Weelkes, Thomas Tomkins, [...]

[Canceled] Didon

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic,  the performance on March 23 at Théâtre des Champs-Elysées in Paris and the recording for the Alpha Classics label  are canceled.  [...]

[Canceled] Le Triomphe de l’Harmonie

In the context of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic, the jeudi musical on March 25 at the Royal Chapel of Versailles is canceled.  Program Orchestral suites from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s [...]