Ensemble Correspondances, with Sébastien DAUCE (organ, harpsichord and direction), performs the Royal Concert of the Night, based on "Royal Ballet of the Nuict, danced by his Majesty on February 23, 1653", who lives for the first time Louis XIV appear as Sun King.

Concert recorded on November 30, 2015 at the Chapelle de la Trinité in Lyon.

Consisting of allegories, entertainment and dreams, this Royal Concert of the Night combines entire scenes of ballet with scenes from the first Italian operas represented in France and commissioned by Mazarin.

- "Opening"

- "First watch: the Nuict" (stories by Jean de Cambefort)

- "Second watch: Venus and the Graces" (works by Louis Constantin, Michel Lambert, and Francesco Cavalli)

- " Third watch: Hercules in love "(story of Jean de Cambefort, works of Francesco Cavalli)

-" Fourth watch: Orphée "(dialogue of Jean de Cambefort, works of Antoine Boesset and Luigi Rossi)

-" Great ballet: the Sun " (story of Jean de Cambefort, works by Francesco Cavalli and Philidor