Name: Richard Coeur de Lion
Start: 2019-10-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-10-13T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Opéra Royal

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Tenor

Rémy Mathieu

Blondel

Reinoud Van Mechelen

Richard Cœur de Lion

Soprano

Melody Louledjian

Laurette

Marie Perbost

Antonio

Baritone

Jean-Gabriel Saint-Martin

Urbain

Bass-baritone

Florestan

Mathurin

François Pardailhé

Guillot

Charles

Cécile Achille

Madame Mathurin

Geoffroy Buffière

Williams

Conductor

Hervé Niquet

Stage director

Marshall Pynkoski

Set designer

Antoine Fontaine

Costume designer

Camille Assaf

Lighting designer

Hervé Gary

Charles Barbier

Seneschal

Agathe Boudet

Colette

Virginie Lefèvre

Béatrix

Chorus master

Elisabeth Geiger

Opéra Royal de Versailles

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Concert Spirituel

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Le Ballet de l'Opéra Royal

Richard Coeur de Lion -  (Richard the Lionheart)

Versailles

France

Richard Coeur-de-lion
'Comédie mise en musique' in three acts by André Grétry (1741 - 1813)
Libretto by Michel-Jean Sedaine
First performance in Paris, Comédie-Italienne, 21 October 1784

Recording: October 12 2019 - Opéra Royal | Versailles
Director: Julien Condemine
Duration: 01:27

Opéra Royal

For the first time since the beginning of the French Revolution, André Grétry's Richard Cœur de Lion (Richard the Lionheart) returns to the Palace of Versailles in 2019—230 years after its last Royal Opera performance! Rediscover a comic opera masterpiece, brought to you by an eminently qualified team: the renowned Canadian duo of Baroque specialists Marshall Pynkoski (stage director) and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg (choreographer); Baroque ensemble par excellence Le Concert Spirituel, under the baton of their director Hervé Niquet; acclaimed vocalists like Rémy Mathieu as Blondel and Reinoud Van Mechelen as King Richard; and the exquisite ballet dancers of the Royal Opera of Versailles.

One of the most popular operas of its day—and the best-known 18th-century opéra comique for a century after its premiere—Richard Cœur de Lion recounts the captivity of King Richard the Lionheart in Austria on his way home from the Crusades, and his rescue by faithful squire Blondel de Nesle. This rich and stunning production transposes the medieval action upon Revolutionary era accoutrements, recreating the fashion and decor familiar to the Versailles audiences who last appreciated this masterwork in 1789

In celebration of the Royal Opera of Versailles'250th anniversary,André Grétry's famed eighteenth century masterpiece returns to the stage as the company's first full production since 1789. Hervé Niquet and Marshall Pynkoski deliverareimagined take of the classic comic opera,depicting the legendary tale of captivity and rescue of King RichardIof England.Conveying music,costumes and sets transport the audience back to the Marie Antoinette period,in this anniversary performance.

Richard Coeur de Lion Grétry

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Richard the Lionheart

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Vous l'aviez manqué ? Il revient ! Après un succès triomphal à l'Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles en 2019 pour la célébration de ses 250 ans, l'opéra "Ri...

Presenter "Richard Coeur-de-Lion" de Grétry en overture de cette saison pour l'anniversaire des 250 ans de l'Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles est all un symbols. Laurent Brunner - Directeur de Château de Versailles Spectacles - et Hervé Niquet - chef de l'ensemble Le Concert Spirituel - reviennent sur les multiples facettes entourant cet opéra-comique et vous en disent plus sur le choix de la distribution et de l'orchestration. Un événement à ne pas manquer les jeudi 10, vendredi 11, samedi 12 and dimanche 13 octobre sur la scene de cette salle emblématique et prestigieuse du Château de Versailles ! Information and reservations

An imprisoned King, his knights who want to free him and sing their loyalty to him, a famous air "Ô Richard Ô mon Roi" sung in the Royal Opera by the Gardes du Corps of Louis XVI during their banquet on October 1, 1789, for salute Marie-Antoinette and the King, unleashing vengeance and bringing the crowd to Versailles, which forces the royal family to leave the castle on October 6, never to return... It's the end of Versailles and its Royal Opera . To celebrate its two hundred and fifty years, here is the return to the stage of the famous Richard Cœur de Lion (1784) by Grétry, the best-known 18th century French comic opera in Europe for a century... disappeared from the sets for decades !

Hervé Niquet and Marshall Pynkoski are working on this doubly historic task. This "anniversary" project voluntarily places the action under the reign of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette, with whom the era easily identified the heroes of Grétry's opera: he was also a regular at the Opera Royal since the performance of Cephalus and Procris in 1773. The sets reproduce the style of the painted canvases and frames typical of the construction of the Royal Opera, the costumes are those of pre-revolutionary France (and no longer of the Middle Ages evoked in the creation), the staging giving to hear the rich text of Sedaine quickly become famous.

If Grétry was Marie-Antoinette's most appreciated composer, his "Richard" is both the culmination of a career, the announcement of an artistic style that romanticism will seize, but also the powerful historical mark of a dying era. Here is the opportunity to bring opera back into the great history of Versailles and France. And here is also the first complete production of the Royal Opera of Versailles since 1789!

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