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DESCRIPTION:Aug 4\, 2026\nIn 2023\, Opéra Royal\, purveyor at Versailles o
 f concerts and spectacles fit for the roi soleil\, launched a partnership 
 with the French Centre des Monuments Nationaux to present vocal and instru
 mental music at Le Thoronet in Provence\, a 12th-century Cistercian abbey 
 whose pure spatial harmony has inspired modern architects from Le Corbusie
 r to Tadao Ando. Like the fat-cat Benedictines\, from whom they split off\
 , the “White Monk” Cistercians in their paupers’ undyed sheep’s wo
 ol followed a practice of work and prayer (“Ora et labora”!)\, but in 
 radically stricter form\, and their unadorned variant of monophonic Gregor
 ian chant was radically stricter\, too. Would the monks of old have approv
 ed or indeed permitted an evening’s potpourri by rediscovered “prima d
 onna” composers of the 17th to early-19th century\, working mainly in a 
 gallant pastoral vein? Don’t ask. For period-music connoisseurs of a fem
 inist bent\, the household names here are Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre\
 , a favorite of Louis XIV since her debut at Versailles at the age of five
 \, and Frederick the Great’s talented sister Wilhelmine of Bayreuth (who
  built her Baroque UNESCO World Heritage opera house well over a century b
 efore Wagner came scouting locations for his revolutionary Festspielhaus).
  But have you a prior acquaintance with Mesdemoiselles Duval and Laurent\,
  Madame Papavoine\, Guesdon de Presle\, or Maddalena Laura Sirmen? Here’
 s your chance.
LOCATION:Thoronet Abbey\, 83340 Le Thoronet\, France
SUMMARY:Prima Donna Women Composers!
URL;VALUE=TEXT:https://airmail.news/arts-intel/events/prima-donna-women-com
 posers
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