Versailles, Portrait of a Royal Domain

Tuesday, November 29, 2016, 7:30 pm
Series tickets: 
1 opera and 1 concert: $100; $80 for members.
Tickets: 
$65; $55 for members.

Boston Early Music Festival 
Chamber Opera Series: Versailles, Portrait of a Royal Domain 
Charpentier’s Les Plaisirs de Versailles & Lalande’s Les Fontaines de Versailles

The GRAMMY Award-winning BEMF Chamber Opera Series presents an all-new, semi-staged production of French Baroque chamber operas by Charpentier and Lalande exalting the splendor and majesty of the palace of Versailles alongside excerpts from Lully’s Atys.

Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs Musical Directors 
Gilbert Blin Stage Director 
Carlos Fittante Choreographer 
Anna Watkins Costume Designer 
Melinda Sullivan Dance Director
Robert Mealy Concertmaster 
BEMF Vocal Ensemble:
Mireille Asselin, Jesse Blumberg, Olivier Laquerre, Mireille Lebel, Jason McStoots, Oliver Mercer, Sophie Michaux, Molly Netter, Aaron Sheehan, Margot Rood, John Taylor Ward, & Virginia Warnken 
BEMF Chamber Ensemble & BEMF Dance Company

Pre-concert talk: 
7 pm with Benoît Dratwicki, Artistic Director of the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles.

Mireille Asselin in BEMF’s 2011 production of Charpentier’s La Couronne de Fleurs. Photography by André Costantini.

Please call (212) 685-0008 ext. 560 or e-mail tickets@themorgan.org for information.