Salon for “Les Surprises de l’Amour” with Scholar Benjamin Bernard

When Jean-Philippe Rameau’s Les Surprises de l’Amour premiered at Versailles in 1748, Madame de Pompadour was its impresario and star, and Louis XV sat in the royal box. Join special guest scholar Benjamin Bernard in conversation with Opera Lafayette Artistic Director Patrick Dupre Quigley for the story behind the spectacle: the personalities, ambitions, pleasures, rivalries, and royal politics swirling around the opera.

This event is in-person at the Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital in Washington, DC.

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Washington, DC 20003