Concert

Sun 10 September

Bayreuth Baroque Opera Festival, Bayreuth, Allemagne

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 [...]

Education and culture

Wed 13 September

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, CMBV, Versailles

Baby Baroque : music workshop for little ones

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

Education and culture

Du 1617 September

Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, CMBV, Versailles

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 [...]

Concert

Thu 21 September

MUPA, Budapest, Hongrie

Sat 23 September

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

Tue 26 September

Concert hall, Musiikkitalo, Helsinki, Finlande

Sat 30 September

Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

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 [...]

Concert

Thu 28 September

Laeiszhalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Allemagne

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, [...]

Concert – Choir school

Fri 29 September

Abbatiale du CCR d’Ambronay, Ambronay, France

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 [...]

Concert

Sun 06 August

Festival Périgord Noir - Église Saint-Martin d'Ajat, Ajat, France

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 [...]

Concert

Sun 02 July

Salon d’Hercule du Château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert – Choir school

Fri 07 July

Festival de Sarrebourg, Sarrebourg, France

Sat 08 July

Festival des Abbayes, Senones, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 01 June

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Seminar

Thu 01 June

CMBV, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert

Fri 02 June

Salle des fêtes de l'Hôtel de Ville de Versailles

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 [...]

Stage production

Sun 04 June, Wed 07 June, Fri 09 June , Sun 11 June

Cuter Majestic theatre at Emerson college, Boston, USA

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 [...]

Study day

Du 7 8 June

Archives municipales / Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon, Lyon, France

‘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, [...]

Symposium

Du 1617 June

CMBV, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert – Choir school

Thu 22 June

IRCAM, Paris

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 [...]

Seminar

Fri 23 June

Centre de musique baroque de Versailles

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 [...]

Concert

Fri 30 June

Concert Hall, Namur, Belgique

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 [...]

Seminar

Thu 11 May

Université Jean Jaurès, Toulouse, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 11 May

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 25 May

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 06 April

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 13 April

Galerie des Batailles du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 20 April

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert

Thu 02 March

MUPA, Budapest, Hongrie

Sat 04 March

Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas

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 [...]

Concert

Tue 07 March

Salon d’Hercule du Château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert

Fri 10 March

Opéra royal du Château de Versailles, Versailles, France

Sat 11 March

Théâtre municipal Raymond Devos, Tourcoing, France

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 [...]

Concert – Choir school

Sat 11 March

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Seminar

Thu 16 March

Université Lumière Lyon 2, Lyon, France

ThéPARis-France

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

Jeudi musical

Thu 16 March

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Projet pédagogique

Sat 18 March

Auditorium Claude Debussy - Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Versailles Grand Parc

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 23 March

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert

Mon 27 March

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 30 March

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert – Choir school

Fri 31 March

Abbaye Saint-Victor, Marseille, France

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 [...]

Concert

Wed 01 February

Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 02 February

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 09 February

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Seminar

Thu 09 February

Sorbonne Université, Amphithéâtre Quinet, Paris, France

ThéPARis-France

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

Jeudi musical

Thu 16 February

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Seminar

Mon 20 February

Fondation Royaumont

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 05 January

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 12 January

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 19 January

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Projet pédagogique

Fri 20 January

Auditorium du CRR de Paris, Paris, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 26 January

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert

Thu 01 December

Chapelle de la Trinité, Lyon, France

Fri 02 December

Arsenal de Metz, Metz, France

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 01 December

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert

Fri 02 December

Eglise Boutersem, Belgique

Sat 03 December

Auditorium du Conservatoire, Tourcoing, France

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, [...]

Concert

Thu 08 December

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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. [...]

Concert

Sun 11 December

AMUZ, Anvers, Belgique

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 15 December

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert

Du 4 6 November

Salle Bourgie, Musée des beaux-arts, Montréal, Canada

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 [...]

Jeudi musical

Thu 24 November

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert

Sun 02 October

Auditorium de la Cité de la Musique et de la Danse, Soissons

Fri 07 October

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

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 [...]

Concert

Sun 02 October

Opéra royal du Château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Concert

Fri 14 October

Théâtre Impérial, Compiègne, France

Sun 16 October

Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Paris

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 [...]

Concert

Sun 16 October

Chapelle royale du château de Versailles, Versailles, France

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 [...]

Study day

Thu 20 October

Sorbonne Université, Salle des Actes, Paris, France

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. [...]

Concert

Wed 26 October

Studio 104, Maison de la radio et de la musique , Paris, France

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 [...]

Study day

Thu 27 October

Université d'Artois, Arras, France

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, [...]

Concert

Fri 28 October

Sintra, Portugal

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) [...]

Concert

Thu 01 September

Tivolivredenburg grote zaal, Utrecht, Pays-Bas

Sat 24 September

Théâtre municipal Raymond Devos, Tourcoing, France

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 [...]

Concert

Sat 03 September

Tivolivredenburg grote zaal, Utrecht, Pays-Bas

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 [...]

Concert

Tue 13 September

MUPA, Budapest, Hongrie

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 [...]

Concert

Tue 02 August

Innsbruck, Austria

Sun 14 August

Église d’Ajat, Périgord Noir, France

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 . [...]

Concert

Thu 25 August

Collégiale Saint-Lazare de Avallon, Vézelay, France

Fri 26 August

Reinoldihaus, Dortmund, Germany

Sun 28 August

Tivoli Vredenburg, Utrech, Netherlands

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 [...]

Concert

Fri 01 July

Potager du Roi, Versailles, France

Sat 02 July

Fehérek Temploma, Vác, Hongrie

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 [...]

Academy

Sat 02 July , Sat 09 July

Vác conservatoire, Hungary

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 [...]

Symposium

Du 810 July

Palais National de Queluz, Portugal

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. [...]

Concert

Sat 16 July

Basilique Saint-Pierre, Luxeuil-les-Bains, France

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 [...]