Château de Versailles Spectacles

  • Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini / Gardiner, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
    Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini / Gardiner, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique

    $42.99

    The flamboyant destiny of the Florentine sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, a misunderstood genius, gave Berlioz the energy to compose his first opera in 1836. It allowed him to identify with the hero of his work: a...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: October 02, 2020

  • Bach: 6 Cello Suites / Rignol
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    Bach: 6 Cello Suites / Rignol

    $19.99 Regular price $29.99

    Could Bach’s Suites be most representative of his French identity? Composed in Germany around 1720 at the Court of Köthen, like the Brandenburg Concertos, for a Francophile and gambist, they find in Myriam Rignol’s vision...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 11, 2021

  • Campra: Le destin du nouveau siecle / Bismuth, La Tempesta
    Campra: Le destin du nouveau siecle / Bismuth, La Tempesta

    $20.99

    Le Destin du Nouveau Siècle [The Fate of the New Century]: what a pertinent idea for a libretto for the year 1700! This unknown opera-ballet by Campra, premiered at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, foreshadowed the Century...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 11, 2022

  • Dieupart: Suites de Clavecin / Rhijin
    Dieupart: Suites de Clavecin / Rhijin

    $20.99

    François Dieupart is an intriguing composer of the early 18th century and a pioneer of the repertoire, even before Couperin and Rameau, a precursor of the “Goûts Réunis” whose grace already heralded the Regency. Closely...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 11, 2022

  • La Captive du serail / Valiquette, Jarry, Royal Opera Orchestra
    La Captive du serail / Valiquette, Jarry, Royal Opera Orchestra

    $20.99

    Here are the Oriental Turqueries galantes of the Opéra Comique, where the lovers are captured by Corsairs and held as prisoners: the Harem for the Belle and the galleys for her knight.... These enslaved Christians...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 11, 2022

  • Lully, Rameau, Rebel, Mozart, Gluck: Les caracteres de la danse - Du Bourgeois gentilhomme a Orphee / Goebel, Royal Opera Orchestra
    Lully, Rameau, Rebel, Mozart, Gluck: Les caracteres de la danse - Du Bourgeois gentilhomme a Orphee / Goebel, Royal Opera Orchestra

    $20.99

    French music owes a great deal to dance, from the survival of the Ballet de Cour in the comedies-ballets of Lully, to his tragedies lyriques, these compositions imposed the French choreographic model in Europe. Here...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 11, 2022

  • Rameau: Grands Motets / Jarry, Choeur & Orchestre Marguerite Louise
    Rameau: Grands Motets / Jarry, Choeur & Orchestre Marguerite Louise

    $20.99

    Although celebrated for opera and harpsichord in his fifties, Rameau had formerly been first and foremost a master of sacred music. These works, composed between 1712 and 1721 when he was in his thirties, are...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 14, 2022

  • Rameau: Les Paladins /  Tournet, La Chapelle Harmonique
    Rameau: Les Paladins / Tournet, La Chapelle Harmonique

    $40.99

    Rameau’s key forgotten comédie-lyrique is brought back to life: in 1760, at the age of 77, Les Paladins would be his last work performed in public. Inspired by the triumph of his other comedy, Platée,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 28, 2022

  • Lully: Grand Motets, Vol. 2 / Fuget, Les Epopées
    Lully: Grand Motets, Vol. 2 / Fuget, Les Epopées

    $20.99

    Here are assembled three Grands Motets by Lully, associated with key moments in the reign of Louis XIV. In 1660, the Jubilate Deo celebrating the La Paix des Pyrénées and the king's wedding, erupts in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 11, 2022

  • Lully, Purcell, Blow: Versailles Westminster / Taillard
    Lully, Purcell, Blow: Versailles Westminster / Taillard

    $20.99

    France and England had strong musical links during the reign of Louis XIV, with two English sovereigns exiled to France, Francophiles and Francophones, Catholics and allies, linked by blood to their cousin, the Greatest King...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 28, 2022

  • Balbastre, D’Agincour, Raison, Piroye: Tiroirs Secrets / Dollat, Metzler
    Balbastre, D’Agincour, Raison, Piroye: Tiroirs Secrets / Dollat, Metzler

    $20.99

    This is a compendium of festive rarities in the ‘Grand Siècle’ of the French organ: their authors have almost been forgotten, secular and the sacred mix with dance rhythms, and half of these works have...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 28, 2022

  • Lully: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme / Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique
    Lully: Le Bourgeois gentilhomme / Dumestre, Le Poeme Harmonique

    $20.99

    In 1670, Molière and Lully presented to the King Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, a sumptuous Comédie-Ballet performed by Molière's Troupe, with musicians conducted by Lully, ballets by Pierre Beauchamp, scenery by Carlo Vigarani and Turkish costumes...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: January 28, 2022