season tickets
Five kinds of season tickets are available
royal opera
History of the place
other places of shows
Hall of mirrors, hall of battles....
camille: god is sound
vivaldi et haendel virtuoses
Tuesday 2 and Wednesday 3 February 2010, 9pm
Always precise and demanding, Camille is working to create a new type of performance for Versailles. This unbeliever will bring to life a repertoire of sacred songs that she will perform in the Royal Chapel
Saturday 6 February Sandrine Piau, soprano Ensemble Mattheus Conducted by Jean Christophe Spinosi
Saturday 6th March 2010, 6:30 pm, Sunday 7th March 2010, 3 pm, Saturday 13th March 2010, 6:30 pm, Sunday 14th March 2010, 3 pm. Le Poême Harmonique / Vincent Dumestre / directed by Benjamin Lazar
Monday 22 March 2010 9pm Arias from Handel’s Serse and Faramondo Max-Emanuel Cencic, Countertenor – I Barocchisti, conductor: Diego Fasolis
mozart: the marriage of figaro
cherubini
Sunday 28 March 2010 3pm, Tuesday 30 March 2010 8pm. Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra de Rouen, conductor: Oswald Sallaberger, directed by Stephan Grögler
SHOW CANCELLED
bach: brandenburg concertos
4 elements - 4 seasons
Wednesday 2 June 2010 9pm Royal Opera
Wednesday 9 June 2010, 9pm, Thursday 10 June 2010, 9pm. Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin - Choreography and direction: Sasha Waltz Company
era la notte
tribute to rameau - alexandre tharaud, piano
Wednesday 16 June 2010, 9pm Monteverdi: from the Lamento d’Arianna to the Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Anna Caterina Antonacci, Soprano – Les Siècles – directed by Juliette Deschamps
Sunday 20 June 6:30pm
For the first time, Rameau on the piano comes to Versailles for a concert that to some extent rounds off this quest for excellence.
handel: music for the royal fireworks
shinbaï, le vol de l’âme
Thursday, 24 June 9:30pm
Le Concert Spirituel – conducted by Hervé Niquet – with firework display
5 December 2009 5pm and 8 pm Choreography by Emmanuelle Huynh
le malade imaginaire (the hypocondriac)
Thursday 10 décember 2009 et Friday 11 décembe 2009, 9pm Molière and Versailles are so closely intertwined that there would seem to be no need to justify a performance of his final masterpiece, Le Malade Imaginaire (played by the great interpreter of French theatre, Michel Bouquet), at the Royal Opera.
juliette greco
lyrical gaiety: royal offenbach!
Monday 14th december 2009 9pm Royal Opera
Wednesday 16 December 2009, 9pm Anne Marguerite Werster, soprano, Gilles Ragon, tenor Orchestre National d’Ile de France, conducted by Jean Christophe Keck
mozart : cosi fan tutte
handel: messiah
Friday 18 December at 8 pm, Sunday 20 December at 3 pm, Monday 21 December at 8 pm
Libretto: Lorenzo Da Ponte
Ensemble Philidor
Conductor: François Bazola
Director: Yves Beaunesne
Tuesday 22 December 2009, 8pm Royal Chapel
barbara hendricks: sacred masterpieces around pergolesi’s stabat mater
barbara hendrick : arias from purcell to handel
Friday 8th January, 9pm Since her 1974 New York Town Hall debut, Barbara Hendricks has been acclaimed as one of the leading and most active recitalists of her generation. This concert will be a religious programme focusing on Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in the setting of the Royal Chapel
Saturday 9th January 9pm Since her 1974 New York Town Hall debut, Barbara Hendricks has been acclaimed as one of the leading and most active recitalists of her generation. This concert will be a recital of operatic arias by Purcell and Handel performed on the stage of the Royal Opera.
orchestre des champs élysées - andreas staier, pianoforte
