Les Fêtes de Ramire - Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles (2025) - Les Fêtes de Ramire - Opéra Royal du Château de Versailles (2025)

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"Voltaire and Rameau had already collaborated on La Princesse de Navarre, created at the beginning of 1745. The court asked them to rework this sumptuous comedy-ballet into a one-act ballet, but the two men did not have the time – they were preparing Le Temple de la Gloire – and entrusted the finalization of the adaptation to Jean-Jacques Rousseau. "You bring together, sir, two talents who have always been separated until now," Voltaire wrote to him. "These are already two good reasons for me to esteem you and to seek to love you." The famous falling out would only occur later. For the time being, Rousseau added a few recitatives, a few arias, which Rameau would later revise. On December 22, 1745, the court discovered a work depicting a captive Spanish princess to whom one of her jailers offered superb entertainment. A work on which three of the most brilliant minds of the 18th century collaborated century."

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