Château de Versailles Spectacles
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Plácido Domingo. The Versailles Gala
Placido Domingo (baritone), Jennifer Rowley (soprano), Orchestre de l’Opera Royal, Laurent Campellone
A baritone now, the voice is not what it was; yet what the voice has lost in range is amply made up for by an artistry that has been honed for six decades. Even in his recital white tie and... — More…
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Stravaganza d'Amore
The Birth of Opera at the Medici Court
Lea Desandre, Lucile Ricardot, Eva Zaïcik, Emiliano Gonzalez-Toro; Ensemble Pygmalion, Raphaël Pichon
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Marie Antoinette: Ballet Sur der Symphonies de Haydn et Gluck
Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut
Malandain Ballet Biarritz, Orchestre Symphonique d’Euskadi, Thierry Malandain
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Lully: Te Deum and Biber: Missa Salisburgensis
The Pages of the Centre de Musique, Baroque de Versailles, Collegium Vocale 1704, Vaclav Luks
[Lully] Conductor Vàclav Luks maintains a tight control, delivering a spectacular performance from fanfare opening to the magnificent contrapuntal conclusion with its jaunty dance rhythm and... — More…
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the many instrumentalists are superb, the scoring options imaginative, and there’s some technically wonderful singing from eight magnificent soloists plus compelling eruptions from a volcanic... — More…
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Handel: Messiah
Sandrine Piau, Anthea Pichanick, Božidar Smiljanić, Krešimir Špicer
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
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This is a ‘normal’ concert, and filmed as such, the focus being very much on its 21st-century performers…The singing and playing here are of predictable high quality. A college or cathedral... — More…
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Offer,
Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Michael Spyres, Sophia Burgos, Maurizio Muraro, Tareq Nazmi, Adèle Charvet
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
The orchestra plays superbly throughout, once again underscoring the advantage of employing period instruments to reveal Berlioz’s glittering, brilliant orchestration in all its full glory…[Spyres... — More…
