A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.
Attila
“Eugene Onegin tells a love story that doesn’t work”. This is how Ralph Fiennes sums up the plot of Pyotr Ilyich...
Eugene Onegin
Casse-Noisette
No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a...
La Bohème - Opéra National de Paris
Titus and Berenice love each other; under the watchful eye of Antiochus, the hopeless lover, they try yet refuse to understand each other. Taking up...
Jarrell: Bérénice
The Florentine sculptor and silversmith Benvenuto Cellini rapidly attained a degree of renown that went beyond the confines of Italy. Invariably...
Benvenuto Cellini
In 2009, Frédéric Mistral’s tale of love and loss in Provence came to the Opéra de Paris with a new production of...
Mireille
King Florestan XIV invites all the fairies in the kingdom to the christening of his daughter Aurora. As they bestow beauty, generosity, and grace...
La Belle au Bois Dormant
This performance of Mozart's two-act opera Zauberflote, recorded at the Opera National de Paris in 2001, was directed especially for TV and video....
Die Zauberflöte
An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier. An almost mystical link between both...
Sarah Winchester: Ghost Opera
Don Quichotte (Don Quixote) is an opera in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Caïn. It was first performed on 19 February...
Don Quichotte
Moses und Aron is a three-act opera by Arnold Schoenberg with the third act unfinished. The 2015 Production was led by Romeo Castellucci in Paris....
Moses und Aron - Opéra National de Paris
Two bored extras from the ‘Tristan and Isolde’ opera roam the underground of the Garnier Palace.
Words in Your Hair
An impressive masked figure, Trompe‑la‑mort reveals his true character through his impalpable latent energy and a plot abounding in...
Francesconi: Trompe-la-Mort
Werther loves Charlotte, but she promised her mother on her deathbed that she would marry Albert. After the marriage Charlotte suggests that Werther...
Massenet: Werther
The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a...
Carmen - Opéra National de Paris
Between dance and drawings, Arnaud des Pallières relates different moments of Degas’s life and unveils some of his darker sides.
Degas and I
Prince Siegfried is celebrating his coming of age. The Queen Mother informs him that, the following day, during the grand ball held to mark his...
Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
Inspired by Pushkin's masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s opera provides a sublime portrait – both ironic and sympathetic...
Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin
A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given. It is the mother’s birthday and she...
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