Château de Versailles Spectacles
132 products
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![Corell & Melani: Trionfo Romano / de Negri, Resche-Caserta, Ensembles EXIT & Hemiola]()
Corell & Melani: Trionfo Romano / de Negri, Resche-Caserta, Ensembles EXIT & Hemiola$20.99
The most impressive public celebration in baroque Rome was given in honor of Louis XIV in 1686. To celebrate the undisputed protector of the Catholic Church, and one year later the successful operation on the...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 24, 2022
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![Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria / Fuget, Les Épopées]()
Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria / Fuget, Les Épopées$40.99
Ulysses and Monteverdi: passion and action at the heart of musical drama. Penelope sings of her endless wait, her hope to see the king of her heart again, while her suitors besiege her to take...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 24, 2022
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![Bach: Motets / Fuget, La Chapelle Harmonique]()
On SaleBach: Motets / Fuget, La Chapelle Harmonique$13.99 Regular price
$20.99The Motets are singular masterpieces in Bach's output. They were all composed in Leipzig between 1727 and 1730 for exceptional ceremonies: the funeral services of important figures. Each motet is a virtuoso composition for double...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 24, 2022
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![Sacrati: La finta pazza - World Premiere Recording / Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea]()
Sacrati: La finta pazza - World Premiere Recording / Alarcón, Cappella Mediterranea$40.99
14 December 1645: for the pleasure of the Queen Mother Anne of Austria, and attended by a young King Louis XIV, Cardinal Mazarin put on the first Italian opera in Paris. The Italian company, invited...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 27, 2022
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![Cavalli, Lully et al.: The Royal Wedding of Louis XIV / Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique, Choir of La Tempête]()
Cavalli, Lully et al.: The Royal Wedding of Louis XIV / Dumestre, Le Poème Harmonique, Choir of La Tempête$20.99
The wedding of Louis XIV with the Infanta of Spain, on 9 June 1660, was an exceptional event, sealing the peace between two monarchies that had been opposed for centuries. The 21-year-old King set off...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 27, 2022
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![Mondonville: Grands Motets / Jarry, Marguerite Louise Choir & Orchestra]()
Mondonville: Grands Motets / Jarry, Marguerite Louise Choir & Orchestra$20.99
Mondonville achieved the apotheosis of the Grand Motet à la Française: the fruit of Lalande's rhetorical heritage and Rameau's operatic style, in which he developed a sacred work symbolic of the Enlightenment. His great musical...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 13, 2022
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![Rameau: Nouvelle Symphonie / Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre]()
Rameau: Nouvelle Symphonie / Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre$20.99
Marc Minkowski returns with relish to Rameau: the rich colors of the orchestra, the irrepressible dynamics, an exceptional melodic sense make the extracts of his greatest lyrical tragedies shine, like so many anthological moments. These...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 22, 2022
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![Vivaldi: 12 Concerti di Parigi / Plewniak, Orchestre de l'Opera Royal de Versailles]()
Vivaldi: 12 Concerti di Parigi / Plewniak, Orchestre de l'Opera Royal de Versailles$20.99
Vivaldi's work is extraordinarily profuse, and from his “extraordinary fury of composition” resulted a collection of 12 concertos, preserved in Paris since then, genuine jewels of Vivaldian music! However, for whom were they composed? The...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 08, 2022
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![Vivaldi: La Senna Festeggiante / Fasolis, Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal]()
Vivaldi: La Senna Festeggiante / Fasolis, Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal$20.99
A small opera played in the evening as part of a festive event, the Venetian Serenata was performed outdoors as a crowning moment of the ceremonies. The French Ambassador is said to have commissioned Vivaldi...
Format: CD
Release Date: April 08, 2022
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![Robert: Grand Motets / Schneebeli, Concerto Soave, Les Pages et Les Chantres du CMBV]()
Robert: Grand Motets / Schneebeli, Concerto Soave, Les Pages et Les Chantres du CMBV$20.99
From 1663 to 1683, Pierre Robert and Henry Dumont were the official composers of the Royal Chapel of Louis XIV, in charge of the Sovereign's daily sacred music, while Lully reigned over the exceptional ceremonies...
Format: CD
Release Date: October 22, 2021
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![Jean-Baptiste: Cadmus & Hermione]()
Jean-Baptiste: Cadmus & Hermione$29.99
An ancient hero, a dragon, a young goddess: love and glory are at the heart of Lully's first opera, first performed in front of Louis XIV. As in his previous works - divertissements, ballets de...
Format: CD
Release Date: May 14, 2021
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![Handel: Messiah / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel]()
Handel: Messiah / Niquet, Le Concert Spirituel$34.99
The resounding success Handel’s Messiah encountered the first time it was presented in Dublin in 1742 set the scene for its future. The oratorio depicts the Sacred History of Christ in three parts: the Nativity,...
Format: DVD
Release Date: January 10, 2020
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![Zingarelli: Giulietta e Romeo / Fagioli, Charvet, Plewniak, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal]()
Zingarelli: Giulietta e Romeo / Fagioli, Charvet, Plewniak, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal$29.99
Napoleon was intensely enthusiastic about opera. The conquering music lover called for the young Italian star, the contralto Giuseppina Grassini, and the most magnificent castrato: Girolamo Crescentini to perform for him. He was the only...
Format: DVD with CD
Release Date: August 27, 2021
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![Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni / Gabetta, Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal]()
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni / Gabetta, Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal$40.99
What if Vivaldi’s famous Quattro Stagioni, performed in Paris in 1728, had been preceded by those of Guido, the star violinist of the Parisian orchestras of Louis XIV’s maturity? Here, at last, are these two...
Format: DVD with CD
Release Date: July 09, 2021
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![Rameau: Rameau Triomphant / Vidal, Jarry, Ensemble Marguerite Louise]()
Rameau: Rameau Triomphant / Vidal, Jarry, Ensemble Marguerite Louise$20.99
Master of 18th century French opera, Rameau wrote for the stage for three decades (1733-1764). His thirty or so operatic works give considerable space to the haute-contre voice, the quintessence of most of the title...
Format: CD
Release Date: June 11, 2021
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