Versailles Grand Parc regional conservatoire carte blanche

Four major themes will form the common thread running through this year's educational concerts. First, Henry Du Mont: to mark the completion of the monumental edition of his work by the CMBV, several of [...]

Charpentier : les victoires de Louis XIV

This first programme immerses us in the splendour of the great Parisian ceremonies of the 17th century, where music magnified faith and the royal figure. Although he never held a formal position at court, [...]

Online resources for Baroque music

Trainer Marco Lo Cascio , librarian (CMBV) Marco Lo Cascio is a music archivist and orchestra librarian. He has focused his career on centres for the conservation of music and performing arts collections. [...]

Cantica Sacra by Henry Du Mont

Four major themes will form the common thread running through this year's educational concerts. First, Henry Du Mont: to mark the completion of the monumental edition of his work by the CMBV, several of [...]

Focus on: Introducing students to the French Baroque repertoire

Objectives Discover and understand the artistic and educational virtues of the French Baroque repertoire Explore concepts of interpretation of the proposed corpus through the CMBV's ‘Découvertes’ collections [...]

What scores for the French orchestra?

Objectives Combining educational content and practical exercises, the workshop will explore the specific characteristics of the French-style ensemble. Its aim is to provide tools adapted to the implementation [...]

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 [...]

Anne de La Barre

Programme Introduction Alexandre Gady (Prefiguration Mission of the Musée du Grand Siècle ) Barbara Nestola ( Centre de musique baroque de Versailles – CESR) Session I Moderators Alexandre Gady  [...]

Vocality before Lully

Objectives Deepen your mastery of 17th century arias by analysing and exploring the stylistic subtleties specific to this period. Perfect your interpretation of arias from this repertoire by closely examining [...]

Villancicos

Four major themes will form the common thread running through this year's educational concerts. First, Henry Du Mont: to mark the completion of the monumental edition of his work by the CMBV, several of [...]

The Dancourt case (1661–1725): news from a theatre professional

Scientific Committee Christelle Bahier-Porte (University of Saint-Étienne) Jan Clarke (Durham University) Ioanna Galleron (University of Sorbonne Nouvelle) Hubert Hazebroucq (Cie Les Corps Éloquents, [...]

Discovery day: workshops, show, guided tour, treasure hunt, meet-and-greet

11 a.m.: workshop 'Discovering Baroque: Instruments'  Harpsichord, organ, violins du Roi, oboe... discover rare instruments, some of which have disappeared, but have now been recreated. The Centre [...]

Choirmaster carte blanche

Four major themes will form the common thread running through this year's educational concerts. First, Henry Du Mont: to mark the completion of the monumental edition of his work by the CMBV, several of [...]

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 [...]

Christmas concert

Four major themes will form the common thread running through this year's educational concerts. First, Henry Du Mont: to mark the completion of the monumental edition of his work by the CMBV, several of [...]

AcadéC project closing symposium

Programme Wednesday, 5th November  10 a.m. : INTRODUCTION Welcome message Karine Buonanno (CMBV) General introduction Bénédicte Hertz (CMBV – CESR) Thomas Vernet (Royaumont Foundation) 10:30a.m.-1p.m. [...]

Grands motets by Henry Du Mont 1/2

Four major themes will form the common thread running through this year's educational concerts. First, Henry Du Mont: to mark the completion of the monumental edition of his work by the CMBV, several of [...]

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 [...]

Petits motets by Nicolas Bernier 1/2

Four major themes will form the common thread running through this year's educational concerts. First, Henry Du Mont: to mark the completion of the monumental edition of his work by the CMBV, several of [...]

Pastorales pour le Roi-Soleil

On this occasion, the CMBV is joining forces with several educational partners, notably the early music departments of Versailles and Paris conservatories, for the French revival of two of the composer's [...]

Ode to the Night

Four major themes will form the common thread running through this year's educational concerts. First, Henry Du Mont: to mark the completion of the monumental edition of his work by the CMBV, several of [...]

Artistic Practices in the Functioning of Aristocratic Families

Programme Introduction Rémy Campos (CNSMDP) Anne-Madeleine Goulet (CNRS - CESR) Speakers Francesca Fantappiè (Università Statale di Milano)The Practice of the Performing Arts within Sovereign Families [...]

7th Baroque Music Week in Rio

Between 2016 and 2021, the CMBV forged a strong partnership with several cultural actors in Rio de Janeiro, creating a French Baroque Music Week aimed at a diverse audience—students, amateurs, and professionals. [...]

7th Baroque Music Week in Rio

Between 2016 and 2021, the CMBV forged a strong partnership with several cultural actors in Rio de Janeiro, creating a French Baroque Music Week aimed at a diverse audience—students, amateurs, and professionals. [...]

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 [...]

Focus on : Michel-Richard de Lalande (1657–1726)

Objectives (Re)discover the life, career and work of Michel-Richard de Lalande. Examine the figure of this composer, emblematic of the French Baroque repertoire, through his influence and legacy. Analyse [...]

Les Menus-Plaisirs des Chantres

The teaching team at the Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles invites students enrolled in higher education programmes in Baroque singing to participate in a three-day opera workshop. [...]

15th meeting of the Muséfrem network

Speakers Jean-François Heintzen Pierre Mesplé Bastien Mailhot François Caillou Thomas D'Hour Bernard Dompnier Gaëtan Naulleau The Centre de musique baroque de Versailles invites you to the annual [...]

Music for French cathedrals in the 17th century

The Tours and Deslauriers manuscripts contain over three hundred pieces and are a vital testimony of French Baroque music in the early 17th century. Most of the works were composed for cathedral choir [...]

Les Rencontres des Menus-Plaisirs

THE BAROQUE MUSETTE: THE HISTORY OF A FRENCH INSTRUMENT, FROM OBLIVION TO REVIVAL TUE. 3 JUNE 2025 - 6PM Conference by Peter Nahon, CNRS researcher at the CMBV PLAYING ALCESTE AND CÉLIMÈNE IN MOLIÈRE'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

Exceptional opening of the CMBV library ! On the occasion of this Discovery Day, the CMBV library will be exceptionally open to the public from 10am to 4pm. Come and explore its unique collection of books, [...]

Janus 2025 – Yesterday and Today

Like Janus, the doublel-faced Roman god, turning towards both the past and the future, the CMBV has joined forces with Ircam, supported by the French Ministry of Culture, to commission four new works for [...]

La Journée du clavecin invite le hautbois

Concerts, presentations and an exhibition will punctuate the afternoon, in partnership with the association Clavecin en France. The event will showcase the harpsichords and oboes recently rebuilt for the [...]

Bestiaries or colours

A year of chamber music

Italy in Paris

Italy has always been a source of  inspiration and fascination for French composers. A voyage to Italy was not just for painters and architects – it was a must for many. In Paris as early as the late [...]

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 [...]

AcadéC – Académies de Concert in France, 1710-1770

Programme Moderator Thierry Favier  (IUF-Université de Poitiers, CRIHAM) Participants Jean Duron (CMBV) Opera as concert – 17th century Musical Practices Bénédicte [...]

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 [...]

L'Amant jaloux

Following a project devoted to music at the King’s table, with works by Lalande, Destouches, Colin de Blamont, Rameau and Francœur, and a recital of sacred music from the lavish events in the Royal Chapel [...]

Messe pour les couvents by François Couperin

François Couperin was only 20 years old when he composed his two organ Masses in 1690. These early works were astonishingly inventive. His Messe pour les paroisses  and Messe pour les couvents [...]

Music and art at the court of the Stuarts in 18th-century Rome

Program Moderator Barbara Nestola (CESR - CMBV) Speakers Michela Berti (Conservatorio di Perugia)Arti performative e reti sociali: Sobieska e gli Stuart attraverso il database PerformArt Matteo [...]

Ernelinde, princesse de Norvège

After the Norwegian performances and the recordings of Grétry’s Raoul Barbe-Bleue  and Philidor’s Ernelinde princesse de Norvège  in association with the CMBV, the Orkester Nord under conductor [...]

Italians in Paris

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 [...]

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

Exceptional opening of the CMBV library ! On the occasion of this Discovery Day, the CMBV library will be exceptionally open to the public from 10am to 4pm. Come and explore its unique collection of [...]

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 [...]

From France to 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 [...]

Theatre, opera and choreography troupes in France

Programme MoDERATORS Suzanne Rochefort (Université de Lorraine) Julia Gros de Gasquet (Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle) Emanuele De Luca (Université Côte d’Azur) Benoît Dratwicki [...]

Grand siècle concert

This recital marks the 60th anniversary of Alfred Kern organ at Saint-Séverin which was rebuilt in 1964, the first French reproduction of the Ancien Régime instrument in the 20th century. It has played [...]

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 [...]