Read our Privacy noticeThe Palace of Versailles has always been about artifice. It hosts balls and garden parties, firework and fountain displays, and a fine series of concerts and opera performances. The opera house in the Palace is as artificial as any of Louis’s propaganda. When Lully staged it, he had 50 singers, 40 dancers and a huge orchestra for those days. open image in gallery The revival of Lully's 'Atys' at Palace of Versailles ( Baptiste Lacaze )The following evening, Sunday 25th, there is more Lully, this time in the modern sterility of the Philharmonie at La Villette.