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Fountains Night Show SOUTH THE NIGHT FOUNTAINS SHOW ORANGERY PARTERRE IN FIGURES Built by Jules Hardouin-Mansart between 1684 and 1686, it 05pm 05pm : 11 to 50pm : from 10 from consists of a large central vaulted gallery 150 metres long, Final Fireworks Final prolonged by two side galleries located under the Hundred 14 Steps staircase. During the summer months, the Parterre shows 40pm 40pm : 10 to 35pm : in 2018 8 from of the Orangerie, forming four stretches of lawn around a Water displays displays Water circular pond, receives up to 1,055 trees in tubs, that spend the winter inside the building. 45pm 45pm : 10 to 30pm : 600 A closed circuit water 8 from Closed the 23rd June for the Grand Masked Ball of Château de Versailles, and the 30th water consumption of displays musical and light open, exceptionally Groves June, 7th and 16th July for the pyrotechnic show Marie-Antoinette. features 3 September 15 to June 4500 m 16 from Saturdays th th MIRROR FOUNTAIN 55 per hour pools & Louis XIV ordered this basin in 1702. In the spirit of the fountains fountains Fountain! Apollo's the over F Groupe of Le Nôtre, but with modern technical means, the Fountains dazzling fireworks display by by display fireworks dazzling a A grand finale with finale grand A Night Show is presented. music. of sound the to playing gardens of Château de Versailles with the fountains fountains the with Versailles de Château of gardens • A team of Jean-Baptiste Lully Versailles, l'île enchantée: Reprise de la marche A 35 km illuminated magnificently the in stroll enchanting An pour la cérémonie des Turcs (extracts) 13 piping system unchanged Te Deum Charpentier & Lully: Te Deum laudamus (extracts) fountain th since the 17 century Marc-Antoine Charpentier • Te Deum Charpentier & Lully: engineers Prélude – Te aeternum Patrem – In Te, Domine speravi (extracts) KING’S GARDEN 15 77 Visitors strolling through this garden will be guided by groves open hectares of strange pyramids of light inspired by oil-papers of the period. exceptionally formal French They evoke the key professions of the Palace through the gardens symbolism of costumes made after the engravings of Nicolas in an de Larmessin (1640-1725). 850 hectares COLONNADE GROVE 700 300 000 park In the circular space of the Colonnade Grove designed by topiaries flowers planted Jules Hardouin-Mansart, the sculptor Girardon placed one each year 155 of the white marble masterpieces of Versailles. Pluto, the statues God of Hell, snatches Proserpine from the Earth, her mother, 235 and carries her up into the sky, with lasers here creating vases unexpected shapes in the coloured smoke clouds. Jean-Baptiste Lully • Armide: Passacaille Les Amants magnifiques: Entrée d’Apollon Le Triomphe de l’Amour: Entrée d’Apollon – Deuxième Air 2018 is the fifth year of Château de Versailles's ambitious illumination project GIRANDOLE AND DAUPHIN'S GROVES for the Night Fountains Show. In these ravishing grove laid out as labyrinths, discover a highly colourful and theatrical staging of them with water and From the Château facade to Apollo's Fountain, Laurent light features. Fachard of Eclairagistes Associés develops multiple ingenious installations in order to confer to statues, pools, BALLROOM GROVE fountains and groves the quality of light they deserve. The Ballroom Grove was built by Le Nôtre and the fountain This year a major development will bring light to the engineers of Louis XIV. Strollers will be able to enjoy a surpri- Dragon Fountain and Neptune's arbour. sing play of lights accompanying the favourite music of the King and the miracle of the water pouring in cascades down the rocaille steps of the amphitheatre. Sponsor of the Night Fountains Show: CITEOS. Technical partners: Jacques Cordier • La Bocanne primitive. La Bocanne compliquée MAP 2018 MAP AIR LIQUIDE supplies all fluids for special effects free of charge. VERSAILLES DE CHÂTEAU Jean-Baptiste Lully • Phaéton: Troupe d’astrée dansante (Prologue) CRYSTAL FOUNTAIN Partner of the Fountains Shows: COURTOIS AUTOMOBILES. Ballet de la nuit: le Roi représentant le Soleil Levant. Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Marche pour la Cérémonie des Turcs – Chaconne des Scaramouches, Frivelins et Arlequins – “Giourdina” GROVES & FOUNTAINS Michel Corrette • Les sauvages et la Furstemberg: Les Sauvages, Allegro The groves of Versailles were designed during Louis XIV’s reign as open air drawing rooms concealed at the heart of the wooded areas of the gardens. One went there for refreshments and light meals, to listen to music or dance. NORTH The King could satisfy his taste for gambling and performing Musical Fountains Show Musical Gardens THREE FOUNTAINS GROVE arts in these venues intended solely for entertainment and Every Saturday and Sunday until Every Friday until 26th October Smoke, dry ice, lights and fountains create a magical mystery 28th October Every Tuesday from 3rd July celebrations. Decorated with fountains, vases and statues, Every Tuesday until 26th October to 30th October in one of the favourite groves of Louis XIV (he is said to accessed through discreet walks, these groves bring Wednesday, 15th August From 9am to 7pm have designed it), completed by Le Nôtre in 1679. Shells and surprise and creativity within the Royal Garden. From 9am to 7pm rocaille features decorate the five levels of fountains from which statues are excluded so that all the visitor’s attention is GREAT PERSPECTIVE concentrated on the water attractions. In the Park of the Palace, this grandiose stretch of lands- Jean Féry Rebel • Les Eléments: Air pour les violons – Chaconne cape designed by André Le Nôtre in the 1660s goes from Pierre Montan-Berton l’Ainé • Nouvelle Chaconne the Palace itself (the King’s Bedchamber and the Hall of Mirrors) to the extremity of the Grand Canal. Apollo, NEPTUNE FOUNTAIN the emblematic figure of Louis XIV, is present everywhere The Neptune fountain was dug out in the shape of a half- in figurative or symbolic form. circle as in the ancient Greek theatres. Armed with his Jean-Baptiste Lully • Le Triomphe de l'Amour: Ouverture – Persée, trident, Neptune, the god of the sea, sends gracious spouts entrée des divinités infernales: Acte III scène 10 – Ballets d'Alcidiane: of water into the sky. Ouverture – Idylle sur la paix: Air pour Madame la Dauphine Marie-Antoinette Louis XIV's day NEW IN 2018: Water display of the Neptune Fountain every Marc-Antoine Charpentier • Offerte à deux chœurs– Sanctus pour Fireworks show in the Orangery Follow Louis XIV during his musical day 15 minutes. tous les instruments gardens in the most beautiful sites of Versailles: Groupe F - Christophe Berthonneau, the Royal Opera and the Royal Chapel, Christoph Willibald Gluck • Les Éléments : Marche Jean-Ferry Rebel • Caprice – Tambourins I & II artistic direction the Hercules Salon, the Hall of Mirrors Jean-Philippe Rameau • Platée : Acte I, scène VI, Orage th th th th th Christoph Willibald Gluck • Ballo Sinfonia - Marche 29 June, 5 , 6 , 11 and 12 June and Gardens. er e at 10pm 8th and 9th July - From 11am to midnight Dardanus : Menuet tendre en rondeau, 1 Tambourin, 2 Tambourin GREAT LAWN Jean-Marie Leclair • Scylla & Glaucus : 1er et 2e Tambourins The Great Lawn, a vast lawn surrounded by an impressive The Grand Masked Ball of Concerts cortege of marble statues, will be lit up by a series of WATER THEATER GROVE Château de Versailles Royal Opera, Royal Chapel fireworks installations by Groupe F, with high flames This grove was designed by André Le Nôtre between 1671 Orangery of Château de Versailles Hervé Niquet, Sir John Eliot Gardiner, rhythmically punctuating the festive music and offering an 23th June from 11:30pm to dawn Mozart – Gilles: Requiem, and 1674 ; it was restored in 2015 by the landscape gardener astonishing perspective view of the Royal Garden. Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Daniel Cuiller Louis Benech for the contemporary garden and the sculptor LATONA'S FOUNTAIN Jean-Michel Othoniel for the sculpture-fountains. Situated close to the Water Theatre Grove, the Golden Children Foun- From the top of the steps of the Latona's Fountain, the visitor Musical season can look out over the Grand Perspective and admire, tain was created in 1709 by Jules Hardouin-Mansart. After Every year, the Royal Opera and the Royal Chapel of Château de Versailles major restoration works it has reopened in 2017. from the king’s viewing point, a constellation of bubbles welcome the greatest international artists for an exceptional program reflecting the day’s last rays of sunshine. The statues of this of concerts, operas and ballets. APOLLO'S BATH GROVE recently restored fountain illustrate the legend of Diana The pre-Romantic aura of the grove of Apollo’s Bath, laid and Apollo’s mother protecting her children against the out in 1776 by Hubert Robert, corresponds to the fashion insults of the peasants of Lycia and demanding vengeance Last trains to Paris for English-style gardens with its astonishing grotto which from Jupiter who changed them into frogs. Château de Versailles Rive Gauche shelters the three splendid marble sculpture groups of Apollo APOLLO'S FOUNTAIN station: and the Muses (survivors from the Thetys Grotto built by 11 : 55pm* The final fireworks display in the fountain of Apollo’s Chariot Versailles Rives Droite station: Louis XIV), carved by Marsy, Guérin, Girardon and Regnaudin. will take place at 10:50pm. Groupe F will be producing a 00 : 12am* finale visible all along the Grand Perspective, combining a Versailles Chantiers station: ENCELADUS GROVE fireworks display at the head of the Grand Canal and flames 00 : 31am* The grove completed by Le Nôtre in 1675 contains one of the *Subject to change. Visit www.ratp.fr soaring from the Great Lawn. marvels of French Baroque sculpture, a gilt lead masterpiece by Marsy depicting the giant Enceladus buried under the Jean-Baptiste Lully • Te Deum: Symphonie – Phaéton: Ouverture INFORMATIONS – BOOKING rocks thrown on him by the gods of Olympus that he had Ballet de la Nuit.
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