Opera for the Sun King or A Piece of Versailles at the Prague Spring Festival

On 26 May at the Rudolfinum, the French period instrument ensemble “Ensemble Correspondances” will offer a musical return to the reign of Louis XIV. At the Prague Spring Festival they will perform a selection of the most famous operas by the Italian-French composer and unrivalled seducer Jean-Baptiste Lully. 

“Each of these operas brings different love situations into a common story: unrequited feelings, cruelty, indifference, rivalry, infatuation, lamentations… Lully’s music discovers amazing worlds of gods and heroes, in which all the creatures on stage share their feelings with people like us,” says Sébastien Daucé, founder and artistic leader of Ensemble Correspondances. The ensemble, which regularly collaborates with prestigious institutions such as the Château de Versailles, the Musée du Louvre or the Fondation Royaumont, comes to the Czech Republic for the first time, with a great line-up of singers, including the recent winner of the prestigious Victoires de la Musique award, mezzo-soprano Lucile Richardot.