Elisabeth Charlotte of the Palatinate (1652-1722), princess at the court of Louis XIV, wrote letters the way people tweet today: incessantly and sometimes several to the same addressee a day. A bit like an elderly lady who is constantly on the phone.
The princess comes to Versailles as the wife of “Monsieur,” Louis XIV’s brother, and lives at this most glamorous court of his time until her death. After the death of the “Sun King”, she is the first lady of the state for some time as the mother of the regent Philip of Orleans. During her lifetime she wrote about 60,000 letters, of which about 6000 have been preserved. Her records provide a picture of manners from the center of the most famous royal court of the time.
In “Tweets from Versailles,” actress Franziska Troegner gives voice to the princess’ blunt, sometimes vulgar and dialectal words. The lautten compagney revives the glamorous atmosphere of the French court with a musical program of chamber music of the time, works by the court composers and virtuosos of Versailles, and music from the court’s favorite operas.