royal opéra

Monteverdi: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin (1610-2010, 400 years)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Running time: 2 h – Without intermission
Royal Chapel
Wednesday 8 September 2010 > 9 pm

Vivica Genaux - Rossini
Rossini at the Opera - Bâle Chamber Orchestra
Director Attilio Cremonesi
Mezzo-soprano  Vivica Genaux

Bach : Christmas Oratorio
Johann Sebastian Bach Cantate I, II, III, & IV
Christina Lanshamer soprano
Ulrike Schneider alto
Collegium Vocale de Gand Orchestra - Concerto Köln
Conductor Marcus Creed 

Running Time: 2 hours and a half - With intermission
Royal Chapel
Tuesday 21 December 2010 > 9:30 pm

Haendel : The Messiah
Chorus and Orchestra The Sixteen - Conductor  Harry Christophers
Grace Davidson soprano
Robin Blaze contre-tenor
Mark Dobell tenor
Ben Davies bass

Running Time: 3 hours - With Intermission
Royal Chapel
Wednesday 22, December 2010 > 8:30 pm

Bolchoï - Ballet Preljocaj
Angelin Preljocaj - Laurent Garnier - Subodh Guptah

Running Time : 1 hour and a half - With intermission
Royal Opera
Monday 27, Tuesday 28, Wednesday 29, Thursday 30, 
December 2010 > 8:30 pm

Handel: Rinaldo
Opera seria in three acts, livret  of Aaron Hill and Giacomo Rossi
Mariana Rewerski Rinaldo
Collegium 1704 Orchestra – Musical Conducting Václav Luks
Louise Moaty Direction

Running time: 3h & 30 min - With intermission
Royal Opera
Tuesday 11 and Wednesday 12, January 2011 > 8 pm

Bizet : Carmen - grands airs et duos
Stéphanie d'Oustrac Carmen
Luca Lombardo Don José
André Heyboer Escamillo
Conception  Yves Coudray
Orchestre Pasdeloup - Conductor Philippe Hui

Running Time: 2h
Royal Opera
Friday 14, January 2011 > 8:30 pm

Rameau and the Louis XV Orchestra
Rameau - Suites d’orchestre: Indes Galantes (1735), Dardanus (1739), Zoroastre (1749)
Orchestra Le Concert des Nations
Concertino  Manfredo Kraemer
Conductor Jordi Savall

Running time: 2h & 15min - With intermission
Royal Opera
Sunday 16, January 2011 > 3 pm

Cherubini : Requiem in C Minor for Louis XVI
Choir Accentus
Opéra de Rouen Orchestra - Conductor Hervé Niquet
Requiem n°1 in ut mineur, for mixed choir and orchestra  (Composed in memory of Louis XVI in 1816)

Running Time  50 min. Without intermission
Royal Chapel
Friday 21, January  2011 > 7 pm and  9 pm
(Louis XIV's death anniversary)

Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld
Direction Yves Beaunesne
Choir of the  Opéra de Dijon
Orchestra Pasdeloup - Conductor Samuel Jean
Soloists of the Académie Européenne de Musique du Festival d’Aix en Provence


Running time : 2h30 – With intermission
Royal Opera
Sunday 23 January > 15 pm
Tuesday 25, Wednesday 26, January 2011 > 8 pm 

Julia Migenes sings Schubert
Philippe Calvario director & récitant
Edouard Ferlet piano

Running time: 1h20 - Without intermission
Opera Royal
Saturday,29 January 2011 > 9 pm

Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea
Soloists and Orchestra Les Paladins
Conductor Jérôme Corréas
Director Christophe Rauck

Running time: 3h10 – With intermission
Opera Royal
Friday 4 and Saturday 5, February 2011 > 8 pm
Sunday 6, February 2011 > 3 pm

Purcell : King Arthur
Choir and Orchestra Le Concert Spirituel
Conductor Hervé Niquet
Conception and direction Corinne & Gilles Benizio (Shirley & Dino)

Running time: 1h45 – Without intermission
Opera Royal
Wednesday 2, Thursday 3, Saturday 5, March 2011 > 8:30 pm
Sunday 6, March 2011 > 5 pm
 

Purcell : Didon et Enée
Tragic Opera in Three acts (1689)
Conductor Sebastien d’Hérin
Direction Bernard Levy
Didon Isabelle Druet
Enée Chang-Han Lim
Belinda Camille Poul

Running time: 1h15
Royal Opera
Friday 18, Saturday 19, March 2011 > 9 pm
Sunday 20, March 2011 > 5 pm

Natalie Dessay – Laurent Naouri
Airs et Duos
Gaetano Donizzeti, Giuseppe Verdi, Ambroise Thomas
Natalie Dessay soprano
Laurent Naouri baryton
Orchestre National de Lorraine – Conductor Jacques Mercier

Running time: 2 h - With intermission
Royal Opera
Sunday 27, March 2011 > 5 pm


 

Giselle
Opéra National de Lyon Ballet
Mats Ek Choreography
Adolphe Adam Music
Dorothée Delabie / Caelyn Knight Giselle

Running time: 1h30
Royal Opera
Wednesday 30, Thursday 31, March 2011 > 9 pm
 

Racine : Bérénice
The French Comedians Company - La Comédie Française
Direction Muriel Mayette

Royal Opera
Friday 1 & Saturday 2, April 2011 > 8:30 pm
Sunday 3 April 2011 > 3 pm

Minkowski, Schubert and Mozart
Les Musiciens du Louvre - Conductor Marc Minkowski
Symphony Haffner Mozart
Extracts of Rosamund Schubert
Symphony n°8 de Schubert

Royal Opera
Tuesday 5 April 2011 > 9 pm

Charles Gounod / Molière: The Mock Doctor
Molière’s Comedy arranger in comic opera by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré
Soloists Orchestre de Picardie
Conductor Pascal Verrot
Direction Sandrine Anglade

Running time : 2h – Without intermission
Royal Opera
Friday 29 & Saturday 30 April 2011 > 8:30 pm

Handel: Julius Caesar
An opera in 3 acts
La Grande Écurie and La Chambre du Roi – Conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire
Director Christian Schiaretti
Julius Caesar Christophe Dumaux

Running Time: 3h30 - With intermission
Royal Opera
Thursday 19 & Friday 20, May 2011 > 8 pm
Sunday 22 May 2011 > 5 pm

Casanova
An chamber opera play in two acts
Music passages from works by W. A. Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte
John Malkovich Giacomo 1
Director Michael Sturminger
Soloist and orchestra Wiener Akademie
conductor Martin Haselbök 

Running Time: 4 h -  With intermission
Royal Opera
Monday 4 to Thursday 7, July 2011 > 8:30 pm

Lully : Atys
Soloists, choir and orchestra Les Arts Florissants
Conductor William Christie
Director Jean-Marie Villegier
During Venise Vivaldi Versailles

Running Time: 4 h - With intermission
Royal Opera
Wednesday 14, Thursday 15, July 2011 > 6 pm
Saturday 17, July 2011 > 3 pm

VIVALDI RITROVATO : CÉCILIA BARTOLI À VERSAILLES
Cécilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano
Ensemble Matheus
Direction Jean-Christophe Spinosi
 
Galerie des Glaces
Lundi 27 juin 2011 > 20h30
Opéra Royal
Mercredi 29 juin 2011 > 20h30

Un festival inédit à Versailles
Dans la droite ligne des fêtes mémorables imaginées par Louis XIV, Versailles accueille Vivaldi et Venise pour des soirées inoubliables.
Le Château de Versailles et Naïve s’associent pour la réalisation d’un grand évènement à Versailles, à l’occasion de l’aboutissement de la publication discographique de l’intégrale des œuvres de Vivaldi.
Du 24 juin au 17 juillet 2011