An imprisoned King, his knoghts singing loyalty to him with a famous air ‘O Richard, O my King’ sung in the Royal Opera House by the Bodyguards of Louis XVI in 1789, which would unleash mob justice forcing the royal family to leave the château and never return... To celebrate the 250th anniversary of our theatre, we are pleased to present the return of Grétry’s most celebrated Richard Cœur de Lion (Richard the Lionheart) (1784), which for a century was the most famous 18th-centry French opéra comique in Europe. Hervé Niquet and stage director Marshall Pynkoski place the action back under the reign of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. Grétry, the queen’s most beloved composer, was a familiar face at the Royal Opera. His Richard is the culmination of a career: here we have an opportunity to put him back into the great history of Versailles, with the first complete production at the Royal Opera of Versailles since... 1789!

Recorded and filmed in October 2019, at the Royal Opera of Versailles

DVD type: NTSC
Region: All regions
DVD length: 1hr27
Subtitles: French, English, German