Jean-Michel Jarre's Christmas Spectacle to Celebrate 400th Anniversary of the Château de Versailles

This Christmas, Jean-Michel Jarre is gifting followers a grand vacation spectacle not like every other.

In a spectacular fusion of historic grandeur and cutting-edge innovation, Jarre, the legendary digital music pioneer, is ready to commemorate the four-hundredth anniversary of the Château de Versailles with a one-of-a-kind live performance expertise. The occasion, aptly named “Versailles 400,” guarantees to be an immersive journey by way of time, mixing the opulence of the Seventeenth-century palace with Twenty first-century applied sciences.

Scheduled for Christmas Day, the live performance can be held within the iconic Corridor of Mirrors, an emblem of creative and technological excellence from the period of King Louis XIV. Revered for for his envelope-pushing reside occasions, Jarre will don the LYNX combined actuality headset for the efficiency, which can permit him to concurrently interact with each a reside crowd within the Corridor of Mirrors in addition to a digital viewers in a futuristic digital model of the identical house.

“Versailles 400 is a hybrid live performance and visible creation broadcast reside from one of many world’s most stunning places, in addition to in digital actuality within the metaverse,” Jarre mentioned in a press release. “I hope the occasion will assist promote our artistic savoir-faire and produce the world of French immersive creation to the forefront of collective tradition.”

The occasion will air on French and worldwide tv channels by way of Eurovision Companies, on RTL radio and on Jarre’s personal YouTube channel. Tickets for the historic occasion are on sale now.