La Petite Musique de Marie-Antoinette: Music for the Queens Theater

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Arts Documentary with no narration published by Arte in 2006 - French language

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Near Trianon, the young Queen Marie-Antoinette built a small and secret theater, to act and sing herself with friends and family. The little theater is still there, newly restored. For the first time since the XVIII century, opera arias and symphonies by Gretry and Gossec, two of the queen's best composers, are played with ancient sets and instruments. A cycle of late 18th century music, programmed by the Baroque Music Center of Versailles, showcases the finest compositions of the musical repertoire played in Paris, under the influence of Marie-Antoinette, during the reign of Louis XVI. The Center joined with French-speaking musicians from different horizons, giving pride of place to the great French-Walloon composers, Andre-Modeste Gretry and Francois-Joseph Gossec. Both enjoyed major careers under Louis XVI: the first built his reputation on his comic operas, which Marie-Antoinette greatly admired; the second came to be considered the true father of the French symphony. Camera Lucida Productions; A Coproduction by le Chateau de Versailles, le Centre de Musique Baroque de Versailles and ARTE France. Simonnet, Olivier. (Director) Karthäuser, Sophie. (Performer, soprano) Pruvot, Pierre-Yves. (Performer, baryton) Waas, Guy van. (Conductor) Gossec, François Joseph, 1734-1829: Symphony. op. 8. No. 2. Gretry, Andre Ernest Modeste, 1741-1813: Cephale et Procris - Selections. Caravane du Caire -Selections.

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Video Codec: x264 CABAC Main@L3.1
Video Bitrate: 2 698 Kbps
Video Resolution: 1280x720
Video Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Frames Per Second: 25.000 fps
Audio Codec: AAC
Audio Bitrate: 128 kb/s VBR 48000 Hz
Audio Streams: 2
Audio Languages: french
RunTime Per Part: 42mn 30s
Number Of Parts: 1
Part Size: 859 MB
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