Opéra Royal - Rameau: LES BOREADES

Tuesday 02 June 2026

20:00 to 23:00

Location : Opéra Royal

Destination

3 Pl. Léon Gambetta, 78000 Versailles

78000

Versailles

GPS coordinates

Latitude : 48.804798

Longitude : 2.120273

BY CAR
Motorway A13 - Versailles Notre-Dame exit
Motorway 186 - Versailles Centre exit
Free "Place d'armes" parking from 19:00

BY TRAIN

Gare Montparnasse > Gare Versailles Chantiers
Dreux, Mantes-la-Jolie, Rambouillet direction

Gare St. Lazare > Gare Versailles Rive Droite
Rive Droite direction

Paris RER C > Gare Versailles Rive Gauche - Château
Rive Gauche Château direction

Pont de Sèvres - Bus 171 > Versailles Château stop

Event Organizer

Château de Versailles Spectacles

Phone : +33 1 30 83 78 89

"Château de Versailles Spectacles"

Location

Opéra Royal

3 Pl. Léon Gambetta, 78000 Versailles

78000

Versailles

Réservation

Presentation

To mark the ensemble's tenth anniversary, a nocte temporis continues its exploration of French Baroque opera with Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades.

A masterpiece of its genre and the last work by the undisputed master of French Baroque opera, Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Boréades tells the story of the thwarted love between Alphise, a young princess, and one of the sons of Boreas, the god of the north wind. Avant-garde, critical and irreverent towards the ruling powers, the work was neither performed nor published during the composer's lifetime, who died a few months after the premiere was cancelled.

Reinoud Van Mechelen, a flamboyant performer of this repertoire on the world's greatest stages, had already recorded some excerpts from Les Boréades in the second part of his trilogy on haute-contre (Jéliote, haute-contre de Rameau). He now tackles this musical masterpiece with his musicians from a nocte temporis, accompanied by a cast of remarkable soloists and the Namur Chamber Choir.