13 concerts, 5 villages: opera, dance, creations, strolls, theater... the Roya Early Music Festival is still expanding to provide inclusive cultural accessibility, a space for creative artistic freedom, and a way to promote our heritage...
Maud Sinda, baroque violin and direction
Clara Sidhoum, baroque violin
Thomas Letellier & Clara Hamberger, baroque oboes
Augustin d'Arco, baroque bassoon and flutes
Cibeles Bullon Muñoz, baroque viola
Emma Vignier, bass violin
Mathilde Mugot, harpsichord
Elie Fonfrede & Diane Omer, baroque dancers
"{...} and this movement is the first and most divine of all movements in the universe. The heavenly bodies know neither beginning nor end in their course, and their path is that of perfection, turning in the firmament without end or fatigue, similar to an eternal dance regulated by the principles of higher reason." Aristotle - Metaphysics
Dance represents the ephemeral. It embodies a fusion of the instantaneous and the continuous; each movement is unique, and exists only during its execution. Nevertheless, any allegory of perpetual motion brings us back to dance, to the art of movement and the harmony of bodies. In this dialectic, Jean-Féry Rebel's "Les Caractères de la Danse", the central work of this program, conceals a third element on the general theme of love, while Pissendel and Muffat bring us other characters, from the "serious and magnificent" to the "complaint without murmur accompanied by few tears", via the "sumptuous and grave allure" of Monsieur Dornel's sonata. Our ball returns to the starting point with another fantasy by Monsieur Rebel.
La Musette des "Plaisirs Champêtres" will return like a refrain, a perpetual, nostalgic memory that recurs, in the most beautiful moments, as in the most fateful, in defiance of temporality and degradation, perhaps as a hope to escape the state of maximum entropy.
Clara Sidhoum, baroque violin
Thomas Letellier & Clara Hamberger, baroque oboes
Augustin d'Arco, baroque bassoon and flutes
Cibeles Bullon Muñoz, baroque viola
Emma Vignier, bass violin
Mathilde Mugot, harpsichord
Elie Fonfrede & Diane Omer, baroque dancers
"{...} and this movement is the first and most divine of all movements in the universe. The heavenly bodies know neither beginning nor end in their course, and their path is that of perfection, turning in the firmament without end or fatigue, similar to an eternal dance regulated by the principles of higher reason." Aristotle - Metaphysics
Dance represents the ephemeral. It embodies a fusion of the instantaneous and the continuous; each movement is unique, and exists only during its execution. Nevertheless, any allegory of perpetual motion brings us back to dance, to the art of movement and the harmony of bodies. In this dialectic, Jean-Féry Rebel's "Les Caractères de la Danse", the central work of this program, conceals a third element on the general theme of love, while Pissendel and Muffat bring us other characters, from the "serious and magnificent" to the "complaint without murmur accompanied by few tears", via the "sumptuous and grave allure" of Monsieur Dornel's sonata. Our ball returns to the starting point with another fantasy by Monsieur Rebel.
La Musette des "Plaisirs Champêtres" will return like a refrain, a perpetual, nostalgic memory that recurs, in the most beautiful moments, as in the most fateful, in defiance of temporality and degradation, perhaps as a hope to escape the state of maximum entropy.
Rates
Rates
Ticket for major sponsors: €15
Solidarity ticket from 0€: participation according to your means
Free participation for the opera at the Monastery
Solidarity ticket from 0€: participation according to your means
Free participation for the opera at the Monastery
Opening times
Opening times
On 9 August 2025
- 21:00
Location
Location
Spoken languages
Spoken languages
Environment
Environment
- Village centre
Access
Access
- The Monastery is a 10-minute walk from the Saorge eastern quarter turnaround, near the retirement home.
