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 
• Barbara Nestola

Speakers

• Sofie Plovie (Independent Scholar)
  Florence Gétreau (IReMus)
  Davitt Moroney (Harpsichordist and Musicologist)
  Un portrait retrouvé d’Anne de La Barre 
• Lisandro Abadie (Universität Mozarteum Salzburg)
  Anne de La Barre. Sa vie, son temps, sa voix

Session II

Moderator

• Étienne Faisant (Prefiguration Mission of the Musée du Grand Siècle)

Speakers

• Frédérique Lanoë (Prefiguration Mission of the Musée du Grand Siècle) 
  Peintres et musiciens au Grand Siècle : petite étude des liens entre l’atelier de Philippe de Champaigne et le monde musical
• Nicola Usula (Conservatorio di Torino “G. Verdi”) 
  “Gli sguardi di una donzella onesta”: Dissimulation, Diplomacy and Self-promotion Techniques in the Portraits of Leonora Baroni and Her Fellow Italian Singers from the 17^th Century

Round Table: "Anne de La Barre et son temps : technique, style et répertoire"

Moderator

• Benoît Dratwicki (Centre de musique baroque de Versailles - CESR)

Speakers

• Lisandro Abadie (Universität Mozarteum Salzburg)
• Elisabeth Belgrano (Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg)
• Thomas Leconte (Centre de musique baroque de Versailles - CESR)
• Barbara Nestola (Centre de musique baroque de Versailles - CESR)

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For its first collaboration with the Musée du Grand Siècle, the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles is organising a study day devoted to the singer Anne de La Barre, a famous performer at the court of Louis XIV, followed by a masterclass dedicated to the vocal style of the period preceding the birth of French opera.

This event echoes the rediscovery of a previously unseen portrait of Anne de La Barre, a famous singer at the court of Louis XIV, in a private collection in 2023. The first identified iconographic evidence of a singer in 17^th century France, this painting will be exceptionally exhibited to the public in December 2025 at the Petit Château de Sceaux, a precursor to the Musée du Grand Siècle. On this occasion, the CMBV wishes to highlight this discovery by organising a study day, coupled with a masterclass, devoted to the vocal music of the period preceding the creation of French opera, a repertoire in which Anne de La Barre was one of the most emblematic and renowned performers: court ballets, the comedy-ballets of Lully and Molière, and the Italian music of composers present at court in the middle decades of the 17^th century.

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TUESDAY, 2 DECEMBER 2025 - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Hôtel des Menus-Plaisirs, Versailles
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