Aria that cost Marie-Antoinette her head sung again at Versailles | The Malaysian Insight

The Palace of Versailles’ opera remains an 18th-century time capsule, with machinery to match. – AFP pic, October 12, 2019.

THE last time the strains of the aria “Oh Richard! Oh my king!” echoed around the Opera Royal at Versailles it was for Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette just before they were dragged off to Paris and their doom by their revolting subjects. The piece from Richard the Lionheart by Andre Gretry, one of the tragic queen’s favourite composers, was last performed by the Palace of Versailles’ own opera company in 1789, as the ancien regime crumbled.

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