Ballet Royal de la Nuit 

Actually the Royal Theater of Versailles didn't exist yet. It was built by Louis XV.

Actually, the OG ballets were performed by the KIng and his courtiers as ritualistic dancing balls: The King and his court _were_ the performers and the performance.

yes I was going to say that Louis XIV was the sun himself in this ballet.

L'Italie ces le berceau

Lully est Florentin Pas italien, l’Italie n’était pas unifiée à cette époque, autre exemple la Corse, Nice, Menton n’ont jamais fait partie de l’Italie. C'est la France qui a contribué à l'unification de l'Italie. Avant l'aide de Napoléon III face aux Autrichiens, l’Italie n'était que des états souverains comme le royaume de Naples par exemple, ne confondez pas Rome et Italie

@@anthonyluccini1015 Bref, retenir que j'adore l'Italie et à Grèce. Merci pour votre contribution. C'est énorme ce qu'ils ont apporté à l'humanité.

Funny how the music he commissioned to make him appear great, actually made him great by his commissioning of it.

Lully was not the main composer to the ballet de la nuit tho

Yeah it's likely that none of the music at all was by Lully. Mazarin commissioned the work from Cambefort who co-opted other eminent composers at the court (principally Boësset and Lambert) to assist due to the scale of the work required. It is likely that Lully was a dancer in the production and that this was the original meeting between the young Louis and Lully. A point of confusion has often been the claim that they met when Louis was 14 and he was 15 at the time of the production. Either way, it's unlikely that an Italian dancer, virtually unknown at the court would have been commissioned by the most established French composers and musicians to write music for such an important royal spectacle.

Still 2024 and nothing changes!Brilliant music.

wow

Very interesting indeed.

Du meine Güte!

Berghain

That is indeed very interesting! Would you mind sharing the sources where you found this information, please? It is for research puposes. Thank you in advance! Take care

c'est très beau, votre commentaire. Merci

hélas, une France disparue

​@@olivierolivier6080 oui....déclin de tout un occident peut-être...

Dites a Poutine d’arrêter cette guerre infâme contre l’Ukraine libre.

@@Aetius828 Poutine met fin à la guerre qui a commencé il y a 8 ans par les nazis ukrainiens Pro-américains contre la population du Donbass. L'OTAN, les États - Unis, l'UE, les olysharkhs Pro-américains et les nazis ukrainiens sont ceux qui ont déclenché le Maidan sanglant et la guerre en Ukraine en 2014.

one of the only interpretations I've heard so far....if not the only one....

Yes, the violins are on fire. This is how this music should sound.

Because French is the best ⚜️⚜️⚜️

Ma mère ?? je ne sais pas lire la suite ,

Aussi!

En Francia la monarquia no volverá al igual que en la mayoría de los paises del mundo. La guillotina cumplió su función, de no haber sido así, aún estaríamos con estos sátrapas, genocidas y vividores que tanto daño hicieron a la humanidad y al progreso de los pueblos y a la justicia. Así que a añorar otras cosas mejores.

@@agmoreno2422 let's not forget the clericals...

Malgré la splendeur de cette musique, la monarchie absolue.... non merci!

La monarchie absolue - non , merci , pas de ça

Philippe Hoyez encore un qui a vu le film le Roi danse...

Ce spectacle grandiose, c'était aussi et surtout une grosse "campagne d'image" et de réhabilitation post-fronde afin de redorer l'image de la royauté. C'est un spectacle-rhétorique afin de prouver la valeur du jeune monarque et de sa mère, de légitimer leur pouvoir et de railler leurs ennemis, fussent-ils de la Fronde ou d'ailleurs (Quelle merveilleuse aventure d'Antoine Boesset est particulièrement clair à ce sujet/3e veille). À noter aussi que ce dernier est décédé en 1643 soit 10 ans avant cette fastueuse production.

@@guillaumeescude6205 pas moi . J'ai pas vu ce film

Yes

This part too 1:00:30

Heureusement, le dernier roi de France a été chassé de ce poste en 1848, et je doute fortement que vôtre 'vivat' pourrait le faire revenir.

❤️⚜️⚜️⚜️

@@kaibroeking9968 mais ton Hollande encore a du rois

​@@kaibroeking9968 pourquoi heureusement ?? L'histoire est ce qu'elle a été et de toute façon ils nous sont laissé de bien belles choses admirées dans le monde entier, au lieu de la médiocrité actuelle.

Vive le Roy Louis XX🇨🇵⚜️✝️❤️

The ballet music is amazing but it contains many cuts which were unknown to me until I followed the score.

Candyfree hate ? No of course

Typically! All rooster like!! 👌

+Anders Bertilsson Philippe Beaussant names Lully as the author of some parts such as Ouverture [which in this recording named Anonymous as well as many other parts]. Since this work is not only 'opera' and Lully was already in Paris in 1653, we cannot exclude his co-authorship. And if data is so much important here, then Antoine Boësset died 6 years before this Ballet was performed, which does not mean he couldn't compose some parts. Jean de Cambefort like all others was co-author on the Ballet de la Nuit and - such a collaboration between composers is not rare in that period. And this information is in all the sources. If it confuses you, I may just delete Lully's name from the title of the video. Yet, he is still one of the most famous co-authors.

+Dramma per musica If you only cannot exclude that Lully was co-auther of this work together with so many other composers an attribution of this whole work to Lully can´t be right especially since a lot of it is in an older style like Airs du Cour etc. On grounds like these one can make all sorts of attributions. I am also a happy owner of the cd:s and the judgment of the text auther was not to mention Lully at all among the composers.

+Anders Bertilsson There is likelihood that some songs have been written by Lully (la Cour des Miracles) but certainly not by Cavalli and Rossi. This CD is an hypotetical reconstruction based on works definitely used in this Ballet (Cambefort) and on works used in later drama (the Cavalli's Ercole Amante). However the music is beautiful, high level music!

Yes and the problem here is that also the parts composed by Cavalli and Rossi is presented as works of Lully.

+Anders Bertilsson I agree...

Je ne sais plus qui a écrit "Henri IV fut un grand roi,Louis XIV le roi d'un grand règne",mais j'aopprécie la nuance

Meravigliosa, la musica ; musique merveilleuse!

Zumra Saibo It was probably tiring too 😅

@@unamed2516 I imagine it would've been a thing to do, to be able to say one had done it - patronised for the kudos rather than the thing itself.

Her voice is so soothing. I can't imagine anyone else singing this recit as she does.

cela a été joué a Versailles et sera repris pour la saison 2020/2021

@@mpuma Je veux!!!

That's it. You're right.

@@citipol always am… 🤓

Hélas cette grande époque est révolue ! La France est bien bas tombée ! Il nous reste cette musique et Versailles !

MARAVILLOSOOOOOOOO

Cara, o balé poderia acabar na abertura que já estaria muito bom, tamanha a força. Tudo muito bonito no balé, mas a abertura...

@@millennial8441 uai, procura entender o motivo desse balé. e sobre a fronde, e era pra mostrar a todos que, querendo ou não, ele estava ali acima de todos. procura tmb ver a versao teatral, tem ai, com o mesmo ensemble correspondance, muito bom

@@SYLVESTRIVS Meu caro, eu conheço a história por trás do balé. Eu me refiro ao fato de que, dada a beleza da abertura, o balé já poderia acabar ali mesmo. Eu falo, não do ponto de vista sócio-político sobre o qual este balé foi escrito, mas, sim, do ponto de vista puramente musical, artístico. Ademais, sabe-se que os balés franceses do "grand siècle" são extensos (e muitas vezes duros de assistir dada a extensão) porque era preciso entreter Louis XIV e sua também corte enfadonha, facilmente tediável e ávida por distrações. Por isso, as suítes derivadas das óperas e balés possuíam APENAS os números que mais faziam sucesso.

Prince Condé as Emperor of Turks

Although my english isn't so good, I couldn't understand what you meant: "Why do you height (hate) the man so much " or "Could you just leave it (him) be" or "I haigly (highly) apreciate (appreciate) your opinions". Could you correct your comment so that I could understand it ?

I was just trying to ask you why you hate Lully so much, it was late at night i was sleepy, sorry for the bad writing.

Despite the french people knew Lully forever while foreigner since only few years. Lully 's biography is widely a myth but not the truth. I despise the man and the composer. The composer because in fact he was a mediocre composer, good in inventing melodies but rubbish in harmony and counterpoint that's why some of his pupils completed his melodies as it was the use in France in those times (see Lalouette affair) as this Ouverture by Cambefort demonstrates it (in fact composed collectively by Mollier, Verpré, Boësset, Lambert and Cambefort). He wasn't the founder of the french Opera as claim everywhere by the biographs. We know well the real founders were Cambert and Perrin with "Pomone" but Perrin has done a bankrupt by dishonesty and Lully could by this way repurchased the privilege which allowed him to play Operas in french. But he wasn't sure of the success, so he asked the king to extend the privilege at Operas in italian. We can consider his works quite like a forgery. As a man, Lully was a horrible man, despite he was gay, he was treacherous, shifty, ambitious, pervert and was almost an obsequious and servile flatterer who won over the king. By example, he monopolized the theater plays Molière wrote because his music was included in it more he succeed to persuade the king for a banning Molière in using music and musician in his plays. There are more and more conspiracies that Lully constantly has done to eliminate his competitors even those who helped or learnt him ( Lambert, Metru, Roberday, Lalouette, Members of the Italian Opera Society in Paris).

Another example: He ran Pietro Antonio Locatelli out of town simply because he did not like his music; it was not in the Grand style like Lulli's. I also want to comment on "his pupils completed his melodies": He composed the top and bass line of a piece and let his secretaries fill in the rest. This was customary in those days. He also needed secretaries to copy his music when needed. One of them once boosted that he had composed a certain piece and not Lulli: When Lulli heard about it, he was fired. The eminent composer Pascal was one of his secretaries. With all his nastiness, he was an exemplary husband and father. If Louis had any friends at all, it was Lulli! He could do no wrong in the kings eyes.

frenchiecocrico1: Lambert too? Wasn't he the father of his wife?

Schrijf dan ook gewoon Frans, lul(li)! / Ecrivez donc simplement ta langue maternelle, con!

Comme vous dit Benni de Jong, si vous ne savez écrire en anglais, écrivez donc dans votre langue maternelle (laquelle est internationale, soit dit en passant) ! En anglais, il ne faut pas écrire "bad English", ce qui voudrait dire : "de l'anglais malfaisant, malveillant, méchant", mais "poor English".

Réponses ridicules de la part de deux imbéciles. On ne peut pas lui en vouloir d'essayer de parler anglais, bien au contraire. Votre anglais n'est franchement pas mauvais, mon cher. J'ai vu des anglophones parler bien plus mal leur propre langue que vous ne le faites

Renaud Brès or Jeroen Bredewold (one of them I think)

I'm afraid AegonCouperin is mistaken: he quotes two bass singers, the question from Pascal Frissen concerns one of Dejanira's arias and it is sung by Dagmar Saskova

Thanks for the response. I already bought Daucé's marvellous CD and enjoy it every day, allthough I must admit that I find this recording on RU-vid more vivid and ornamental. I wonder whether this recording is also available on CD.

I'm afraid they only issued the studio recording (the one you have) on CD. You can always enjoy the livelier aspect on the RU-vid version (which I suspect is the live version I heard broadcast on France Musique from the Ambronay Festival), and tell yourself that the CD offers (as a compensation) better technical quality!

Great idea but Lully died died in the reign of king Louis xiv who died WAY before the Bastille happened. Lully died because he stabbed himself while rehearsing a piece for the king.

Royal Ballet of the Night

LULLY

thanks

It's Cambefort not Lully.

well thank you

This is the only part of the ballet that is attributed (but uncertain attribution) to Lully. The rest of the ballet is written by Cambefort, Lambert an Boesset.

Israël Silvestre the Younger "The Prince of Conde as the Emperor of Turkey, part of the Carousel Given by Louis XIV 1638-1715 in Front of the Tuileries, 5th June 1662"

Dramma per musica Thanks a lot.

Wait never mind

1:24:32

Rossi' "L'Orfeo", actually have nothing common with LBRdlN.