Opéra Royal - Rameau: Ramire's Festivities

Thursday 22 May 2025

at 20:00

Location : Opéra Royal

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Place d'Armes Château de Versailles

78000

Versailles

GPS coordinates

Latitude : 48.806038

Longitude : 2.122558

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

Phone : +33 1 39 24 88 88

"Château de Versailles Spectacles"

Location

Opéra Royal

Place d'Armes Château de Versailles

78000

Versailles

Château de Versailles Spectacles

Presentation

A ballet based on a libretto by Voltaire, first performed at Versailles in 1745.

Voltaire and Rameau had already collaborated on La Princesse de Navarre, which premiered in early 1745. The court asked them to rework this sumptuous comedy-ballet into a one-act ballet, but the two men had no time - they were preparing Le Temple de la Gloire - and entrusted the finalisation of the adaptation to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. ‘You bring together, sir, two talents that have always been separated until now’, Voltaire wrote to him. ‘These are already two good reasons for me to esteem you and to seek to love you. The famous falling out would come later. For the time being, Rousseau added a few recitatives and arias that Rameau would later revise. On 22 December 1745, the court discovered a work depicting a captive Spanish princess to whom one of her captors offers superb entertainment. It was a work on which three of the most brilliant minds of the 18th century collaborated.