“French pie and old gossip”
Saison
2025/2026
Sinfonies for Le Souper du Roy by Mr. Lalande
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Drinking songs, anecdotes, satires and scandals: around the Sinfonies for Les Soupers du Roy and letters from Mme de Sévigné and Bussy Rabutin, gazettes recounting the latest escapades of female singers of the Opera or Le Mercure de France, plunge into the heart of history, and savor with delight all the gossip of the court. We promise you them as crisp, enjoyable, light, even poetic, as the show that awaits you!
Distribution
The Spiritual Concert orchestre
Jean-Philippe Desrousseaux cook and staging
Claire Niquet accessories and costumes
Hervé Niquet Michel-Richard de Lalande and musical direction
Program
Michel-Richard de Lalande
Sinfonies for the King's Suppers (S.155 to S172)
Joseph Bodin de Boismortar
Songs to drink
Production
Production The Spiritual Concert A project supported by the Villefavard Farm in Limousin - Cultural encounter center
Duration
1h30
Without intermission
Photo credit
Poster of the show Pâté en Croust and Old Gossip © Le Concert Spirituel
Additional information
Thanks to TAP - Scène Nationale de Grand Poitiers
Who is hosting the program recording for Alpha Classics from April 24 to 26, 2025
It was in the queen's apartments, in the antechamber known as the Grand Couvé, that Louis XIV's public meals took place, whose sumptuous ritual attracted all the courtesans.
Only the royal family could sit at the table. In front of her, the princesses and duchesses who had the privilege of sitting on the stool, then, standing, the people who, by their rank or with the authorization of the bailiffs, had been able to enter.
The butler, his silver-headed staff in his hand, warned the captain of the guards who immediately announced to the king that he was served. The same ceremony was repeated every evening: the sovereign then came to dine in public in the antechamber of the Grand Couvert.
The show was impressive, the ritual sumptuous, and this bad language of Saint-Simon did not hesitate to tell the multiple anecdotes linked to this ritual and to this play, which was one of the strategic places of the court in Versailles.
Les Sinfonies for the King's Suppers by Michel-Richard de Lalande accompanied these evenings in Versailles. Here they are taken up by Hervé Niquet with an original bias, typical of this chef known for his fantasy.
With the support of the AG2R LA MONDIALE Corporate Foundation for Artistic Vitality
This new project will be the subject of a creative residency at the Ferme de Villefavard in Limousin - Center Culturel de Rencontre from April 19 to 22, 2025.
