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Charpentier : Vespers for the Virgin

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Summary

Concert
Homepage Charpentier : Vespers for the Virgin

Cast

  • Fanny Valentin* Dessus
  • Anders Dahlin Hautes-contre
  • Antoine Ageorges*, François-Olivier Jean Tailles
  • Matthieu Walendzik, Thierry Cartier* Basses-tailles
  • *Members of the Royal Opera Academy – 2025/2027 cohort
  • Les Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (Fabien Armengaud art direction)
  • Le Concert Spirituel Choir and Orchestra
  • Hervé Niquet Conductor

Presentation

A passionate admirer of Charpentier’s music, to which he has devoted around ten recordings with Le Concert Spirituel over nearly forty years, Hervé Niquet has decided to bring his sacred works back to life. And what luxury! By recreating today a concert that only Louis XIV could afford to produce at the time, Le Concert Spirituel and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles revive the splendour of Versailles by summoning Charpentier’s Roman and Italian musical influences. With an octet of soloists, a double orchestra and a double choir, this trilogy brings together sixty-three performers in unison.

 

And the conductor warns us: “You have to be a bit mad to do this, to reproduce this exceptional acoustic experience that makes Heaven and Earth communicate. I have been working on Charpentier for a long time and I now understand him very quickly; I decipher his mathematics: when one pays attention to his rhythm and meter, the music emerges on its own.”

 

Co-production: Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, Le Concert Spirituel
Scores published by the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles

Programme

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)

Vêpres à la Vierge

 

Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)

Salve Regina H.24

Litanies à la Vierge H.87

Ouverture pour le sacre d’un évêque H.536

Dixit Dominus H.190

Lauda Jerusalem H.191

Laudate Dominum H.223

Beatus Vir H.224

Magnificat H.74

Beatus Vir H.224

Magnificat H.74

The Royal Chapel of the Château de Versailles

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147€

  • Full rate
    147€
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104€ à 121€

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    121€
  • Under-26s rate
    104€
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    104€
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    104€
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    104€
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72€ à 85€

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    85€
  • Under-26s rate
    72€
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    72€
  • Opera Experience rate
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  • Opera Experience Rate
    72€
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48€ à 57€

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    57€
  • Under-26s rate
    48€
  • CMBV-Cercle Rameau
    48€
  • Opera Experience rate
    48€
  • Opera Experience Rate
    48€
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28€ à 34€

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    34€
  • Under-26s rate
    28€
  • CMBV-Cercle Rameau
    28€
  • Opera Experience rate
    28€
  • Opera Experience Rate
    28€

PRESTIGE VIP CATEGORY : Best seats in house, you will receive a complimentary programme and a glass of champagne.

 

PRESTIGE CATEGORY : Excellent seats, you will receive a complimentary programme and a glass of champagne.

 

REDUCED GROUP RATE : available for groups of more than 10 people, excluding corporate offers.

CORPORATE GROUP RATES : for more information, please refer to our page dedicated to works councils and groups.

 

In case of any technical problem, the box office service remains available to complete your order by phone at +33 (0)1 30 83 78 89 (Monday-Friday from 11am to 6pm) or in our box office-shop (3 bis rue des Réservoirs, 78000 Versailles ; Monday-Friday from 11am to 6pm, and on Saturdays with concerts or shows except during the Musical Fountains Shows, from 2pm to 5pm).

 

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