Petit Théâtre de la Reine - Vivaldi: La Senna Festeggiante

From Saturday 05 to Sunday 06 July 2025

Location : Petit théâtre de la Reine

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Jardin du Petit Trianon
78000
Versailles
GPS coordinates
Latitude : 48.815912
Longitude : 2.108053
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
Château de Versailles Spectacles
Phone : +33 1 30 83 78 89
Phone : +33 1 39 24 88 88
Location
Petit théâtre de la Reine
Jardin du Petit Trianon
78000
Versailles

Presentation

Vivaldi's works played a significant role in the rich relationship between Venice and Versailles, which stretched around the Grand Canal from the flotilla of Little Venice to the mirrors in the Hall of Mirrors.
Vivaldi's works played a significant role in the rich relationship between Venice and Versailles, which stretched around the Grand Canal from the flotilla of Little Venice to the mirrors in the Hall of Mirrors.

His famous Four Seasons were widely performed in Paris, and his work La Senna festeggiante was strictly intended to celebrate Louis XV. This commission from the French ambassador in Venice honoured the marriage of King Louis XV to Marie Leszczynska in 1725. The young king was fifteen and his wife twenty-two. This grand Serenade in two parts, in the format of a small opera, brings together Virtue and the Golden Age on the banks of the festive Seine. The glory of the King of France is allegorically magnified by particularly sumptuous and virtuoso music.



Inaugurated in 1780 for the private use of Marie-Antoinette performing before the Court, the Théâtre de la Reine is an absolute marvel: built by Richard Mique as a veritable miniature theatre, it still has all its antique machinery and numerous sets in which we imagine the Queen may have performed... Before turning away from these theatrical performances in 1784 in favour of the country splendour of her new refuge: the Hameau de Trianon.



Presenting this work in period costume on the sumptuous mobile sets of the Théâtre de la Reine is guaranteed to be an unforgettable evening.

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For all PRM/PSH bookings, we recommend that you contact us directly at billetterie@chateauversailles-spectacles.fr or on 01 30 83 78 89.
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