AKADEMIE VERSAILLES

📅 21.–25. 10. 2026

📍 Prague, Czech Republic

International Masterclasses for Singers and Instrumentalists

Dear friends and lovers of early music,

we are writing to inform you about the Akademie Versailles, International Masterclasses of French Baroque Music and its period performance practice organized by Collegium Marianum in collaboration with the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV).

For further information, see the details below.

Thank you for forwarding the information to those who might be interested.

Yours faithfully,

Anna Cibulková

COLLEGIUM MARIANUM

Centre of historical performing arts

Vodičkova 700/32, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic

e-mail: festival@collegiummarianum.cz

BAROQUE ORCHESTRA 

violin, viola, cello, viola da gamba,

flutes, flauto traverso, hautbois,

theorbo, bassoon, double bass, harpsichord

Vittorio GHIELMI – orchestra, viola da gamba

PROGRAMME

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Concerts en sextuor

DEUXIÈME CONCERT

I. La Laborde II. La Boucon (Air gracieux) III. L’Agaçante IV. 1er Menuet – 2e Menuet

CINQUIÈME CONCERT

I. La Forqueray (Fugue) II. La Cupis (Modérément) III. La Marais (Rondement)

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Cantatas and arias
(Atys, Armide, Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes galantes, Castor et Pollux, Dardanus, etc...)

VOCAL CLASS

Chantal SANTON JEFFERY – vocal interpretation 

Benoît DRATWICKI – rhetoric, declamation and pronunciation of the French language

PROGRAMME 

Jean-Philippe Rameau 

Cantatas and opera arias 
Atys, Armide, Hippolyte et Aricie, Les Indes galantes, Castor et Pollux, Dardanus, etc...

The specific aria for interpretation with Baroque orchestra will be selected in the consultation with lecturers. 

The masterclasses are aimed at students of music conservatories and universities, professionals and pedagogues. The classes are taught through English.

⏰ DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: 11 June 2026
💡 Free application · Results by 30 June

ATTENDANCE FEE

Baroque orchestra

5500 CZK / 230 EUR (VAT incl.)
Vocal class

8500 CZK / 350 EUR (VAT incl.)

www.akademie-versailles.cz

Akademie Versailles is organized by the centre of historical performing arts Collegium Marianum with the participation of the Municipal District of Prague 1, in collaboration with the French Institute in Prague and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles and with the financial support of Ministry of Culture and the City of Prague.

Vodičkova 700/32, Praha 1
festival@collegiummarianum.cz