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Versailles Imagined At Boston Early Music Festival

Wed, 06/19/2019 - 10:32am
Music
By
Fred Baumgarten
Scene from the Boston Early Music Festival 2016 production of “Versailles: Portrait of a Royal Domain.” Photo by Kathy Wittman

Let’s be a fly on the wall in the court of Louis XIV, at his lavish palace of Versailles in 1682. There are entertainments in every room of the royal apartments. Here courtiers are running up high-stakes card games. There men and women are dancing in lines to a minuet, while next door they are catching up on the latest gossip. Around the corner delicate sweets and meats are being served.

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