Opera
Le nozze di Figaro
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Palais Garnier
from 19 Jan to 18 Feb 2022
Opera
La Khovantchina
Modeste Petrovitch Moussorgski
Opéra Bastille
from 26 Jan to 18 Feb 2022
Ballet
Body and Soul
Crystal Pite
Palais Garnier
from 30 Jan to 20 Feb 2022
Opera
Don Giovanni
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Opéra Bastille
from 01 Feb to 11 Mar 2022
Opera
Manon
Jules Massenet
Opéra Bastille
from 05 to 26 Feb 2022
The Marriage of Figaro is one of the repertoire’s most iconic works. Brahms spoke of it as a “miracle” and the Countess’s lament remains one of the most heart-rending musical pages of all time.
To explore and examine Russian history. He drew inspiration for this opera from the Moscow uprising of 1682, the year in which Peter the Great was crowned tsar.
Guided by a strange voice under the flickering light of a flush-fitting ceiling lamp, two men observe one another and then confront each other. This duo soon becomes a crowd, a swell, which comes alive to the rhythm of Chopin’s preludes.
For his second collaboration with Da Ponte, Mozart would mark the history of opera with his Don Giovanni: a rake who conquers and subjugates women with the cold brutality of a predator stalking its prey.
In 1731, when the abbé Prévost wrote l’Histoire du Chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut – which would serve as inspiration for Massenet’s Manon – he was presenting us with a portrait of an era.
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