Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital

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

    7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. | Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, Washington, DC, United States.

    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 […]

    Cost: Free