Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Reconstructions of 19th-century ballets often involve a dose of artistic pastiche, but few stagings have taken the ...
Appointed general director of the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique in October 2021 by French President Emmanuel Macron, Louis Langrée, 62, launched his first season on Thursday, March 30. The ...
We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Arts news every morning. You have to hand it to Ambroise Thomas’s librettists Barbier and Carré: they never ducked an opportunity to ...
DRESS REHERSAL: For Maison Lesage artistic director Hubert Barrère, the June 21 premiere of “Zémire et Azor,” the opéra-comique — a genre of French opera with dialogue as well as sung segments — will ...
Festival theatre; Usher Hall; Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh; Glyndebourne, Lewes Paris’s Opéra-Comique joins forces with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in louche yet explosive Bizet; Yuja Wang thrills with ...
The Opéra Comique in Paris turns 300 this year and leading lights of opera and theatre have been paying tribute to this much-loved venue. One of Paris’s oldest dramatic and musical institutions, it is ...
The Opéra-Comique in Paris is a bit like home to William Christie. The American conductor has directed 13 productions there since the historic 1987 exhumation of Jean-Baptiste Lully's lyrical tragedy ...