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The Bulletin du Centre de recherche du château de Versailles is a peer-reviewed online journal produced by the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles (CRCV). It publishes articles and studies relating to European court societies, mainly from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. The Bulletin welcomes contributions from researchers in all languages and from any discipline or institution.

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L’opéra de cour en France (XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle) : goût, espaces, pratiques

Actes du colloque, 16-17 juin 2023, Centre de musique baroque de Versailles
Court Opera in France (Seventeenth–Eighteenth Century): Taste, Spaces, Practices. Symposium proceedings, 16-17 June 2023, Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles
Edited by Barbara Nestola and Thomas Soury

Knowledge of French opera has grown considerably in recent decades, thanks to numerous research projects that have produced seminal works. However, it must be noted that it is the corpus of the Académie Royale de Musique, an institution closely linked to the birth and development of the genre, that has attracted the most attention from researchers.
At a time when research is increasingly concerned with cultural venues outside Paris, this publication, the result of an international symposium held at the Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles in June 2023, seeks to examine opera production beyond the Académie Royale de Musique, focusing on court circles. Were the courts merely showcases for the repertoire of the Paris Opera? Were they not also, at the prince’s instigation, a unique place of creation or recreation? The chronological scope of our work runs from 1639, the year Mazarin, who imported Italian opera to France, began his ministry, to 1791, the year Parisian theatres lost their privileges. Although the period covered is broad, the publication seeks to highlight points of convergence that characterize what would then emerge as court opera, a spectacle specially produced at court and for the court.

Symposium programme (on the CMBV website)

Editor’s notes

Cette publication a reçu le soutien financier du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, pôle recherche associé au Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance (UMR 7323), et de l’UMR 5317 – IHRIM (Institut d’histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités), sous la tutelle du CNRS, de l’ENS de Lyon, des universités Lumière-Lyon 2, Jean-Moulin-Lyon 3, Jean-Monnet-Saint-Étienne et Clermont Auvergne. 

Correcteurs : Judith Lévitan (textes français), Leah Morin (métadonnées anglaises)

Date de mise en ligne : 8 octobre 2025

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