Series: Ratatouille
The Pleasures of Conversation
September 24, 2026 – 7:30 p.m. | Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours
A program of 18th-century chamber music inspired by the refined art of French conversation, blending elegance, wit, and sociability. Through duets, trios, and quartets, the composers translate into music a free-flowing and balanced dialogue, imbued with gallantry and subtlety.
Works by Couperin, Villeneuve, Boismortier, Guillemain, Quentin, and Mondonville
Series: Ratatouille
French Baroque Noëls and Songs of Winter
December 3, 2026 – 7:00 p.m. | Église de la Visitation
Featuring dazzling motets and variations inspired by traditional Christmas carols, this program celebrates the rich musical heritage of the Nativity in 17th- and 18th-century France. The composers blend fervor, elegance, and winter poetry in a world where the sacred and the secular come together naturally.
Works by Campra, Clérambault, Boismortier, Dandrieu, Corrette and Daquin
Series: Mignardises
Mozart’s Youthful Sonatas
February 4, 2027 – 7:30 p.m. | Auditorium des archives nationales
Composed during the young Mozart’s travels in Europe, his early chamber sonatas already reveal a striking melodic freshness, a keen sensitivity, and a remarkable inventiveness. Between the harpsichord and the pianoforte, the flute and violin engage in an elegant and harmonious dialogue in these early works, which are full of charm and spontaneity.
Works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Series: Banquet
Atys
March 25, 26, and 27, 2027 – 7:30 p.m. | Monument national
American composer Jonathan Dawe, known for his work that bridges Baroque style and contemporary language, and director Stéphanie Jasmin, who works at the intersection of literary, theatrical and visual languages, take on the opera by Jean-Baptiste Lully and Philippe Quinault, premiered in 1676, to imagine a new “tragedy in music” set in the political landscape of the United States in the 1980s.
Work by Jonathan Dawe & Stéphanie Jasmin
