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| Who | Chamber Ensemble of the Académie de l’Opéra Royal de Versailles (FR) Gaétan Jarry (FR) conductor, harpsichord Ana Viera Leite (FR) soprano |
| Where | Lednice Riding Hall |
| Program | Jean-Joseph de Mondonville (1711–1772) Sonata for violin and harpsichord in g minor, op. 3, no. 1 Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741) In furore iustissimae irae, RV 626 Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759) Silete Venti, HWV 242 —break— Georg Friedrich Händel Serse, HWV 40, overture Georg Friedrich Händel Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion (The Messiah, HWV 56) Jean-Joseph de Mondonville Sonata for violin and harpsichord in C major, op. 3, no. 4 Georg Friedrich Händel Da tempeste il legno infranto (Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17) Dress code: Semi-Formal |
Chamber Ensemble of the Académie de l’Opéra Royal de Versailles, conducted by Gaétan Jarry, will perform masterpieces of Baroque music together with soprano Ana Viera Leite. In addition to A. Vivaldi and G. F. Handel, the programme features works by J.-J. de Mondonville, court musician to King Louis XV.
Annually, Royal Opera of Versailles presents more than a hundred performances and collaborates with leading names and international performers who take turns on its prestigious stage. The Royal Opera Orchestra was founded in 2019 on the staging of John Corigliano’s Les Fantômes de Versailles. It is dedicated to a wide repertoire ranging from Baroque to Classicism and Romanticism. Given the history of the place whose name it bears, the core of its repertoire consists of music from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The orchestra works with several conductors throughout the season and has a flexible line-up, adapting to the needs of individual projects by the Royal Opera and Château de Versailles Spectacles.
It tours extensively, showcasing its virtuosity on the most prestigious stages in France and abroad. In 2024, the orchestra completed a fifteen-concert tour of Asia, and in 2025 it embarked on a tour of North America. As a key representative of the Château de Versailles Spectacles label (winner of the 2022 Label of the Year award from the International Classical Music Awards), Royal Opera Orchestra is actively involved in its recording activities.
French conductor and organist Gaétan Jarry is the founder of Marguerite Louise, a Baroque choir and orchestra. He is a graduate of the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Paris and has also won several first prizes from conservatories in Versailles and Saint-Maur-des-Fossés.
Gaétan Jarry is also one of the principal guest conductors of the Royal Opera Orchestra in Versailles, with which he has staged many productions, including The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, and The Abduction from the Seraglio. His discography, comprising some fifteen recordings acclaimed by international critics, is largely devoted to French Baroque music, to which he brings the aesthetics of the Marguerite Louise ensemble – whether in repertoire for large choirs and orchestras, operas, or grandiose royal motets by composers such as Jean-Baptiste Lully, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Michel-Richard de Lalande, Jean-Philippe Rameau, and Jean-Joseph Cassanéa de Mondonville.
As a soloist, he released the album Noëls baroques à Versailles, recorded on the grand organ of the Royal Chapel in Versailles in collaboration with Pages du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles. He followed this recording with other projects devoted to the French Baroque organ repertoire, organ concertos by George Frideric Handel, and the opera David et Jonathas by Marc-Antoine Charpentier.
Soprano Ana Vieira Leite graduated from the Haute École de Musique de Genève in 2020, where she earned a master’s degree in concert singing and received the City of Geneva Award for outstanding artistic achievements. She is the winner of the 1st prize at the Concours international de chant baroque de Froville (2020), Concurso de Canto Lírico da Fundação Rotária Portuguesa (2021) and laureate of the 10th edition (2021) of the Le Jardin des Voix project. She has gradually established herself as one of the leading young singers in the field of Baroque music, collaborating with renowned ensembles and participating in several CD recordings. Her first solo album, Amorosi Accenti, received exceptionally favorable reviews in the international press. Also, she is a co-founder and member of the ensemble La Néréide.
As a young artist, she made her debut at the Paris Opera, Teatro Real in Madrid, Opéra Comique, Royal Opera in Versailles, Paris Philharmonic, and many other world stages. She recently performed with Paul Agnew in a recital at the Cité de la Musique in Paris, dedicated to opera and concert arias by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Ana has also collaborated with Christophe Rousset, the Monteverdi Choir, and the English Baroque Soloists in performances of Handel’s Messiah at La Scala, St. Martin-in-the-Fields in London, the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, and the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris. She also made her debut at the Opéra Bastille in Paris in the role of Iole in a new production of Antonio Bemba’s opera Ercole Amante, conducted by Leonardo García Alarcón and directed by Netia Jones.
