Les Plaisirs de Versailles

Saturday March 6 at 12 PM

Admission (general seating): $10; students and senior citizens $5.

Shepherd School of Music,  Alice Pratt Brown Hall 

Rice University, 6100 Main St Houston, Texas , USA

Admission; $10; students and senior citizens $5.
For tickets call  713-348-8000 .
 

This event is presented as part of the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Seventeenth-Century Music.

"Les plaisirs de Versailles" is a short opera (or divertissement) by the French composer Marc-Antoine Charpentier.

This delightful divertissement celebrates the various pleasures enjoyed at the French Baroque court via characters who represent Music, Conversation, Gambling, Feasting and Pleasure. Scored for just six singers plus a small ensemble, with costumes and set pieces, it's an ideal piece of entertainment for a party or for a light-hearted program.

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