Stéphanie d'Oustrac

Les Contes d'Hoffman

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poe...

Opéra National de Paris: Castor et Pollux by Jean-Philippe Rameau

A return to its roots for Castor et Pollux, Jean-Philippe Rameau’s lyric tragedy first performed in 1737 at the...

Les Paladins

Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music f...

Les Paladins by Jean-Philippe Rameau or Baroque that Rocks

Featurette from the Opus Arte DVD of Les Paladins by Jean-Philippe Rameau staged at the Théâtre du Chatelet in...

Les Troyens

Berlioz : La damnation de Faust

In the sumptuous Art Deco setting of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Orchestre national de France performs...

La Belle Hélène

This is a joy from beginning to end. Although there are many tricks and ideas from Laurent Pelly, as always he...

Berlioz: Les Troyens

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the T...

Béatrice et Bénédict

Berlioz’s whimsical and nostalgic take on Shakespeare’s great comedy Much Ado About Nothing graces the stage of...

Mignon - Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège

Meet Mignon , a shy and ingenuous young girl ignorant of her past, who will see her quest for identity upset by...

Theodora

The oratorio concerns the Christian martyr Theodora and her Christian-converted Roman lover, Didymus.

Les contes d'Hoffmann - Opéra Bastille novembre 2016

L'Incoronazione di Poppea

A ruthless dictator falls in love with a sexy woman. Together, they get rid of every obstacle in their way: his...

L'Odyssée Offenbach

Carmen (Festival d'Aix-en-Provence)

Boldly rewriting the opera’s dialogue to accommodate his concept, Mr. Tcherniakov presents “Carmen” as a large-...

Carmen - NNTT

When a free-spirited woman is arrested, an impressionable soldier is charmed into letting her go. But having ri...