Tweets from Versailles
Literature and music with extracts from the letters of Liselotte von der Pfalz
Musical direction: Volfgang Katschner
Soloists: Gisa Flake (reading), Alice Lackner, Coline Dutilleul (mezzo-soprano) / lautten compagney Berlin
40 / 30 / 20 €
Liselotte von der Pfalz (1652-1722), a princess at the court of the Sun King, wrote letters as we write tweets today: untiringly and sometimes several times a day to the same addressee. Rather like an elderly lady who is always on the telephone. The princess came to Versailles as the wife of Monsieur, the brother Louis XIV, and lived at the most magnificent court of her day until her death. Her writings provide a picture of life as seen from the very centre of the most famous royal court of the period. In Tweets from Versailles, actress Gisa Flake gives a voice to the princess’s unvarnished and sometimes vulgar, dialect-studded comments. Lautten compagney brings the glittering atmosphere of the French court to life with a musical programme of chamber music from the period, works by the court composers and virtuosos of Versailles and music from the court’s favourite operas.