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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

ThéPARis-France

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

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]