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- Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work, blending reality and the surreal on several levels. This passionate new production by Jose Montalvo, stunningly choreographed by Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu, sets new standards in entertainment, charm and ingenuity. The sharp and spectacular multimedia staging does full justice to Rameau's dazzling burlesque, confirming Olivier Rouviere's statement that 'Les Paladins is the last laugh of a witty 77-year old composer'. Recorded live in 2004 at the Paris Theatre du Chatelet, both the virtuoso cast and Les Arts Florissants are in top form, clearly enjoying themselves in the masterful hands of William Christie.
- Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
- George Dandin, paysan fortuné, a acquis un titre de noblesse en épousant la fille d'un hobereau ruiné, Angélique de Sotenville. Mais la jeune femme, mariée contre son gré par des parents sans scrupules, ne cesse de le cocufier. Bafoué, humilié, Dandin est résolu à la prendre en flagrant délit d'adultère... Une comédie-ballet de Molière et Lully, créée à Versailles en 1668.
- Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017.
- This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of the terrible fate to come, but fate is set and Troy falls. The first two acts cover this tragic end, then the flight of survivors to Carthage and events at Carthage continue in acts 3 - 5, culminating in the further voyage for Italy and Rome. This is Virgil's classic epic, in operatic form, in about a three and a half hour performance from French Opera.
- Countess tries to reform her philandering husband with the aid of 3 servants just before 2 of them are to marry.
- The story of a real 18th-century French actress, leading lady of the Comédie-Française in Paris, who was believed to have been poisoned by a love rival.
- 'A mix of futurism à la Metropolis, fantasy à la Batman and quotes from Piranesi's Carceri, juxtaposed in the form of photo montages, enhanced with...robots, a helicopter, a shark and the winged vehicle of a pop star Pope', was how the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described this astonishing Salzburg Festival production of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini. The high-calibre cast, headed by Burkhard Fritz as the temperamental Renaissance artist and the 26-year-old Latvian soprano Maija Kovalevska as Teresa, the woman with whom he tries to elope, is conducted by Valery Gergiev who 'pulled out all the stops. He whips the Vienna Philharmonic into a delirium similar to that which possibly took hold of the composer'. (Der Standard) This is French grand opera at its fast-paced and spectacularly-staged best.
- Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by Frank Wedekind, Lulu describes the social ascent and the demise of a deadly woman, driven by men to behave in murder, to her own. dead.
- A young man turns his back on love in pursuit of pleasure and narrowly escapes with his soul, but descends into madness.
- Rusalka, a water nymph, longs to become human so she can find love. Despite the consequences her aunt gives here a potion that grants her wish and she promptly falls for a handsome prince. Alas, she has a rival for the prince's affections. Spurned by the prince she returns to the lake and becomes a spirit of death until the prince once again wanders by.
- A three act ballet choreographed by the dancing legend Rudolf Nureyev, and inspired by many different passages in the classic Cervantes novel Don Quixote.
- Walther von Stolzing is in love with Eva Pogner but she is set to be given as the prize for the winner of the upcoming master singer's contest.
- Mozart's opera, here in a different version from the Glyndebourne Festival 2019. All music and Schikaneder's libretto are of course included. But the plot has been moved to a British hotel at the beginning of the last century. A show with a lot of humor, warmth and charm. The young Norwegian star soprano Caroline Wettergreen is "The best Queen of the Night in 40 years", wrote the Financial Times.
- Fidelio's libretto, based on a comic opera by Bouilly and Gaveaux, met resounding success in Paris in 1798. Drawing inspiration from the Reign of Terror, a period of the French Revolution, this artwork inspired many composers. Beethoven turned it into an ode to justice and made it his philosophical legacy. At the end of a gallant century and in the early days of a society founded on marriage, the marital love that was denied to Beethoven is a the heart of this drama. The composer worked on this opera for ten years, until it triumphed in 1814. Like Mozart, Beethoven had transcended sing-spiel's form and language. More importantly, he had entrusted lyrical art with its true mission: the public. Rarely played in Paris, Fidelio finds an opera auditorium at the Opéra Comique that is very similar to the ones Beethoven knew back in the 1810's. Together with Siobhan Stagg and Michael Spyres, Raphaël Pichon and Cyril Teste have created a performance induced with fiery musical intensity and politics.