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Articles about Opera

Encounters

Portrait of a false hero

Interview with Ildar Abdrazakov — By Konstantinos Aspiotis
Encounters

With the Chorus of Prince Igor

In conversation with Philippe Jordan and José Luis Basso — By Coline Delreux
Encounters

Igor, the anti-prince

An interview with Barrie Kosky — By Marion Mirande
Encounters

Close to the Russian soul

An interview with Philippe Jordan — By Marion Mirande
Encounters

In the role of a "monster"

Interview with Evelyn Herlitzius on Lear — By Konstantinos Aspiotis
Backstage

Recipe of the day: Don Carlo

Ingredients of Krzysztof Warlikowski's stage production — By Octave
Encounters

The man who tamed a king

An interview with composer Aribert Reimann — By Aribert Reimann, Simon Hatab and Emmanuelle Josse
Perspectives

Les Indes galantes

Relive the show in video! — By Octave
Encounters

Contemporary Baroque

Interview with Leonardo García Alarcón — By Konstantinos Aspiotis
Backstage

Recipe of the day: Les Indes galantes

Ingredients of Clément Cogitore and Bintou Dembélé’s stage production — By Octave
Encounters

Dumas versus Verdi

Interview with Benjamin Bernheim — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

From gang to Corps de Ballet

Performing Les Indes galantes today — By Mouvement
Perspectives

The Mirror of the Indies

Or exoticism in Rameau — By Valère Etienne
Perspectives

Draw-me Madama Butterfly

Episode 17 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Encounters

Finding connections

In conversation with Clément Cogitore and Bintou Dembélé — By Anne-Solen Douguet
Perspectives

Draw-me I Puritani

Episode 15 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Encounters

Elvira, a woman under control?

Interview with Elsa Dreisig — By Konstantinos Aspiotis

Theme - I Puritani
Encounters

Dissolute Don Giovanni

An interview with the dramatist Jan Vandenhouwe — By Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Draw-me Don Giovanni

Episode 14 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Encounters

“A production that makes a lasting impression”

La Forza del destino from the audience's point of view — By Cyril Pesenti
Perspectives

Those who Remain

Episode 18 — By Alice Zeniter

Series - Literary breaks
Encounters

Don Giovanni: a man to kill?

Encounter with Étienne Dupuis — By Cyril Pesenti
Encounters

Under the sign of destiny

Encounter with Brian Jagde — By Emilie Chatoux
Perspectives

Draw-me Tosca

Episode 13 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Encounters

A simple man

Florian Sempey on Papageno — By Cyril Pesenti
Backstage

Tosca’s Cross

Episode 11 — By Alexandre Gaillard

Series - A production remembered
Perspectives

Yes, opera can be pop!

An interview with Agnès Gayraud — By Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Podcast Tosca

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Backstage

Portfolio | A marriage between opera and ballet

Iolanta/The Nutcracker in rehearsal — By Dmitri Tcherniakov
Perspectives

An analysis of Tosca

A conversation with Pierre Audi and Henri Peña-Ruiz — By Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Draw-me Carmen

Episode 12 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Podcast The Magic Flute

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

Freeing Carmen

Interview with Calixto Bieito — By Marion Mirande and Simon Hatab

Theme - Carmen
Perspectives

“Carmen” and the Paris Opera

A photographic retrospective — By Octave

Theme - Carmen
Encounters

Bringing scandal in his wake

Portrait of Calixto Bieito — By Aleksi Barrière

Theme - Carmen
Backstage

Fire in The Magic Flute

Episode 19 — By Alexis Mazaloubaud

Series - A production remembered
Encounters

The Magic Flute by Robert Carsen

Interview with the stage director — By Octave
Encounters

Mezzo piano

Portrait of Anita Rachvelishvili — By Marion Mirande, Milena Mc Closkey and Felipe Sanguinetti

Theme - Carmen
Encounters

Katerina or passion

Interview with Aušrinė Stundytė — By Marion Mirande

Theme - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Perspectives

Draw-me Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Episode 10 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Encounters

Requiem for a Russian woman

Interview with Ingo Metzmacher — By Marion Mirande

Theme - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Encounters

Sergei, the villain

Meet with Pavel Černoch — By Cyril Pesenti

Theme - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Perspectives

Draw-me Don Pasquale

Episode 09 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Transgression in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

How music violated Soviet morality — By Etienne Barilier

Theme - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Encounters

Embodying two worlds

Interview with Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak — By Cyril Pesenti and Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Othello on screen

(De)constructing stereotypes — By Sarah Hatchuel
Perspectives

“Brother humans who live after us”

Lady Macbeth, the reasons for a scandal — By Charlotte Ginot-Slacik

Theme - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Encounters

The two faces of Don Pasquale

Interview with Michele Pertusi — By Anna Schauder
Encounters

A Moral Tale. Or is it?

Interview with Damiano Michieletto — By Simon Hatab
Encounters

Eros in Thanatos

Die Fledermaus by the Paris Opera Academy — By Simon Hatab and Jeanne Desoubeaux
Perspectives

Les Troyens

Relive the entire show — By Octave
Perspectives

A History of Les Troyens

Episode 3 — By Charles Alexandre Creton

Theme - Les Troyens
Encounters

Rusalka metamorphosed

Interview with Camilla Nylund — By Cyril Pesenti
Encounters

The composer’s ambassador

A portrait of Susanna Mälkki — By Alternatives théâtrales
Perspectives

Castellucci’s tears

Il Primo Omicidio in rehearsal — By Transfuge

Theme - Il Primo Omicidio
Encounters

Dvořák - a scintillating score

An interview with Susanna Mälkki — By Cyril Pesenti and Marion Mirande
Encounters

“We are always victims of music”

An interview with Romeo Castellucci — By Mouvement

Theme - Il Primo Omicidio
Encounters

Berlioz, a total genius

An interview with Philippe Jordan — By Marion Mirande

Theme - Les Troyens
Perspectives

The story of Les Troyens

Episode 2 — By Charles Alexandre Creton

Theme - Les Troyens
Perspectives

Draw-me Rusalka

Episode 06 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Backstage

The suspended bed of Rusalka

A production remembered — By Cyril Pesenti
Perspectives

Interrogating Cain

In search of "Il Primo Omicidio" — By David Christoffel

Theme - Il Primo Omicidio
Encounters

Rebellious Cassandre

Interview with Stéphanie d'Oustrac — By Cyril Pesenti

Theme - Les Troyens
Encounters

The source of evil

Interview with René Jacobs — By Simon Hatab and Marion Mirande

Theme - Il Primo Omicidio
Perspectives

A History of the Trojans

Episode 1 — By Charles Alexandre Creton

Theme - Les Troyens
Perspectives

Draw-me Il Primo Omicidio

Episode 04 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

René Jacobs' playlist

Il Primo Omicidio — By Octave

Theme - Il Primo Omicidio
Encounters

A stage philosopher

A portrait of Romeo Castellucci — By Piersandra Di Matteo

Theme - Il Primo Omicidio
Encounters

Romeo Castellucci in 10 highly-charged performances

Portfolio — By Emmanuel Quinchez
Perspectives

Podcast La Cenerentola

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Backstage

Simon Boccanegra’s ship

An interview with José Sciuto, Deputy Artistic Director of the Workshops — By Cyril Pesenti
Encounters

The spirit of Boccanegra sails onwards

Interview with Calixto Bieito — By Marion Mirande and Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Draw-me La Traviata

Episode 02 — By The Motion Fighters

Series - Draw-me
Encounters

The volcano's daughter

La Cenerentola by Guillaume Gallienne — By Octave
Perspectives

Podcast Simon Boccanegra

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Forever Free ... Sempre libera

A brief history of La Traviata at the Paris Opera — By Simon Hatab

Theme - La Traviata
Perspectives

A Twelve Point Guide to Alexandrines

The story of the most celebrated verse form in French literature — By David Christoffel
Perspectives

Romanticism and the French Wars of Religion

When literature comes to grips with History — By Sylvain Ledda

Theme - Les Huguenots
Perspectives

What exactly is grand opera?

A history of French opera in the 19th century — By Elise Petit

Theme - Les Huguenots
Perspectives

Podcast L'Elisir d'amore

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Podcast La Traviata

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique

Theme - La Traviata
Perspectives

Podcast Shakespeare, fragments nocturnes

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

La dritta via

Episode 15 — By Gwenaëlle Aubry

Series - Literary breaks
Perspectives

One Final Ordeal

Episode 14 — By Claire Berest

Series - Literary breaks
Encounters

Valentine, "a flower caught in the storm"

Interview with Ermonela Jaho — By Anna Schauder

Theme - Les Huguenots
Perspectives

Draw-me Les Huguenots

Episode 01 — By The Motion Fighters

Series - Draw-me
Backstage

La Traviata seen from the sky

A drone hovers over the sets — By Philippe Meicler

Theme - La Traviata
Encounters

The broken emperor

Interview with Bo Skovhus — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Podcast Bérénice

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Transfigured Night

Episode 12 — By Sarah Léon

Series - Literary breaks
Perspectives

The Magic of Love

A reading of L'Elisir d'amore — By Tobie Nathan and Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Podcast Tristan et Isolde

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Absolute Wagner

Passion in Tristan and Isolde — By Valère Etienne / BmO
Backstage

Olympia in La Traviata

Episode 01 — By Octave

Series - A production remembered
Perspectives

Podcast Les Huguenots

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique

Theme - Les Huguenots
Encounters

Peter Sellars and absolute music

An interview about Tristan et Isolde with its director — By Marion Mirande
Encounters

Eternal Return

Interview with Andreas Kriegenburg, director of The Huguenots — By Marion Mirande and Simon Hatab

Theme - Les Huguenots
Encounters

Marguerite de Valois, between love and politics

Interview with Lisette Oropesa — By Anna Schauder

Theme - Les Huguenots
Perspectives

Ten anecdotes about Les Huguenots

The day Meyerbeer’s opera premiered — By Simon Hatab

Theme - Les Huguenots
Encounters

What Music for Berenice?

Interview with the composer Michael Jarrell — By Marion Mirande and Simon Hatab
Encounters

Isolde's awakening

Interview with Martina Serafin — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Draw me Don Pasquale

Understand the plot in 1 minute — By The Motion Fighters
Perspectives

Draw-me Boris Godounov

Understand the plot in 1 minute — By The Motion Fighters
Encounters

Norina, a modern heroine

Interview with Nadine Sierra — By Anna Schauder
Perspectives

Russian Directors and Boris Godunov

Representing the People — By Béatrice Picon-Vallin
Perspectives

Boris Godunov Journal

Episode 9 – Encounter with Ivo van Hove — By Philosophie magazine

Theme - Diary of Boris Godunov
Perspectives

Boris Godunov Journal

Episode 8 – A meeting with Ildar Abdrazakov — By Philosophie magazine

Theme - Diary of Boris Godunov
Perspectives

Boris Godunov Journal

Episode 7 – Encounter with the film-maker Tal Yarden — By Philosophie magazine

Theme - Diary of Boris Godunov
Perspectives

Boris Godunov Journal

Episode 6 – Encounter with Evdokia Malevskaya — By Philosophie magazine

Theme - Diary of Boris Godunov
Perspectives

Diary of Boris Godounov

Episode 5 – An encounter with conductor Vladimir Jurowski — By Philosophie magazine

Theme - Diary of Boris Godunov
Perspectives

Journal de Boris Godounov

Episode 4 – A meeting with Orchestra violinist Cécile Tête — By Philosophie magazine

Theme - Diary of Boris Godunov
Perspectives

Draw-me L'Heure espagnole / Gianni Schicchi

Understand the plot in 1 minute — By The Motion Fighters
Perspectives

Podcast Le Trouvère

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" — By France Musique
Encounters

A Russian revolution

Interview with Vladimir Jurowski on the subject of Boris Godunov — By Marion Mirande
Encounters

Il Trovatore or the Verdian opera par excellence

Interview with Sondra Radvanovsky — By Anna Schauder
Perspectives

Diary of Boris Godounov

Episode 3 –In the costume studios of the Opéra Bastille — By Philosophie magazine

Theme - Diary of Boris Godunov
Perspectives

Diary of Boris Godunov

Episode 2 – In the workshops of the Opéra Bastille — By Philosophie magazine

Theme - Diary of Boris Godunov
Encounters

Gianni Schicchi's Divine Comedy

Interview with baritone Artur Ruciński — By Anna Schauder
Encounters

Breaking the Rules

Interview with the director of Parsifal — By Marion Mirande and Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Draw-me Parsifal

Understand the plot in 1 minute — By The Motion Fighters
Perspectives

Diary of Boris Godunov

Episode 1 – An encounter with the dramatist — By Philosophie magazine

Theme - Diary of Boris Godunov
Perspectives

From Verismo to the Apaches

Puccini and Ravel turn back to opera buffa — By Elise Petit
Encounters

Wagner in its purest form

Andreas Schager interprets Parsifal — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

“Who is the Grail?”

“Who is the Grail?” — By Simon Hatab
Perspectives

A Gut-Feeling for Opera

Encounter between Barbara Hannigan and Yannick Haenel — By Yannick Haenel, Alexandre Lacroix and Simon Hatab
Encounters

Parsifal ... And Sound became Space

Interview with Philippe Jordan — By Marion Mirande
Encounters

John Osborn excels in Benvenuto Cellini

Meeting the performer — By Anna Schauder
Encounters

Pretty Yende sings Berlioz

A unique and personal journey — By Anna Schauder
Perspectives

Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz’s Baptism of Fire

Long-awaited acclaim — By Valère Etienne / BmO
Perspectives

Lost in Cellini

When Terry Gilliam moves over to Opera — By Simon Hatab
Encounters

The voice of Elle

Interview with Barbara Hannigan — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Anna de Noailles

"La Voix Humaine" by Jean Cocteau — By Marie-Lise Allard
Encounters

A tale of madness, love and death

Interview with Christian Longchamp, dramaturg — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Podcast Benvenuto Cellini

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" — By France Musique
Perspectives

Introduction to the Music of Bartok

The Clever Fusion of the First Modernisms — By Jacques Amblard
Perspectives

Podcast Le Château de Barbe-Bleue / La Voix humaine

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Backstage

Il barbiere di siviglia under the magnifying glass

A probing portfolio of set photos — By Catherine Plichon and Marion Mirande
350 years

Special evening at the Palais Garnier

Presentation of the Paris Opera's 2018/2019 anniversary season — By Octave
Encounters

Sondra Radvanovsky, qual soave Amelia

Conversation with the heroine of Un ballo in maschera — By Anna Schauder
Perspectives

Podcast Only the Sound Remains

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique

Theme - Only the Sound Remains
Perspectives

Draw me The Barber of Seville

with Hop'éra! — By Pauline Andrieu
Encounters

The colours of our dreams

Interview with the painter-decorator of Only the Sound Remains — By Anna Schauder

Theme - Only the Sound Remains
Perspectives

I’m watching you

Episode 09 — By Joy Sorman

Series - Literary breaks
Perspectives

Podcast The Barber of Seville

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

Portrait of Kaija Saariaho

Interview with the composer of Only The Sound Remains — By Simon Hatab

Theme - Only the Sound Remains
Encounters

Bad education

The Barber of Seville as seen by Damiano Michieletto — By Solène Souriau
Perspectives

Podcast La Traviata

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Draw me A masked ball

with Hop'éra! — By Pauline Andrieu
Encounters

Handel at the peak of his art

Interview with William Christie — By Octave
Encounters

Refusing the end

Interview with Claus Guth — By Yvonne Gebauer
Perspectives

The Bohemian Spirit

Henri Murger's little-known masterpiece — By Tristan Bera
Perspectives

Podcast Un bal masqué

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Podcast Jephtha

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

Living every moment with intensity

Willard White talks to us about From the House of the Dead — By Solène Souriau
Encounters

In rehearsal with Patrice Chéreau

Interview with Peter Mattei — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Podcast La Bohème

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Requiem for an eagle

Episode 08 — By Stéphane Héaume

Series - Literary breaks
Perspectives

La Clemenza di Tito in a nutshell

Mozart's opera in 40 seconds — By Margot Gallimard
Encounters

Conducting Janáček, Stravinsky and Salonen

A conversation with Esa-Pekka Salonen — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Podcast De la maison des morts

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Podcast La Clémence de Titus

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By Judith Chaine and France Musique
Perspectives

Verdi stripped bare

Don Carlos at the Opéra Bastille — By Transfuge
Backstage

Constructing Don Carlos

Behind the scenes with Krzysztof Warlikowski — By Octave
Perspectives

A pure presence

Memories of conversations with Patrice Chéreau — By BANDE A PART
Encounters

Dominique Pitoiset looks back at Falstaff

Interview with the stage director — By Marion Mirande
Encounters

Reviving From the house of the Dead

Conversation with Peter McClintock — By Simon Hatab and Lison Noël
Perspectives

The spirit and the letter

A short history of opera translation — By David Christoffel
Encounters

Music always speaks louder than words

Interview with Christiane Lutz — By Solène Souriau
Backstage

The Emperor's March

La Clemenza di Tito at the Palais Garnier — By Octave
Encounters

Verdian at heart

Interview with Ludovic Tézier — By Marion Mirande

Theme - Don Carlos
Encounters

Total Soprano

Interview with Véronique Gens — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Podcast La Ronde

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Draw me Don Carlos

with Hop'éra ! — By Pauline Andrieu
Perspectives

Podcast Falstaff

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Podcast Don Carlos

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique

Theme - Don Carlos
Encounters

Becoming Mélisande

Episode 03 — By Marion Mirande and Felipe Sanguinetti

Series - Becoming...
Perspectives

The Theatre of Claude Debussy

The intimate relation between text and music — By Gérard Condé
Backstage

The jewellery of The Merry Widow

Episode 14 — By Pascale Dufay

Series - A production remembered
Encounters

A "Lausbub" baritone

Interview with Thomas Hampson — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Podcast Così fan tutte

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

Don Carlos in its original version

An interview with Philippe Jordan — By Marion Mirande, Simon Hatab and Felipe Sanguinetti

Theme - Don Carlos
Perspectives

Podcast Pelléas et Mélisande

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Draw me La Veuve joyeuse

with Hop'éra ! — By Pauline Andrieu
Perspectives

Podcast La Veuve joyeuse

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

The Little Key

Episode 04 — By Véronique Olmi

Series - Literary breaks
Perspectives

L’Ora Fatale

Episode 05 — By Stéphane Héaume

Series - Literary breaks
Perspectives

On Bluebeard’s Planet

Episode 06 — By Marie Darrieussecq

Series - Literary breaks
Encounters

An eruption in the making

La Cenerentola by Eric Ruf — By Octave
Perspectives

Bob Wilson’s theatre of light

A visual retrospective of his work at the Paris Opera — By Octave
Encounters

The Stuff of Shakespeare

Interview with the director of Shakespeare, fragments nocturnes — By Simon Hatab
Encounters

Walking in Rigoletto’s shoes

Episode 01 — By Marion Mirande, Juliette Puaux and Felipe Sanguinetti

Series - Becoming...
Perspectives

Podcast La Cenerentola

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By Judith Chaine
Encounters

Onegin and his demons

An interview with Peter Mattei — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Draw me la Cenerentola

with Hop'éra! — By Pauline Andrieu
Encounters

Anna Netrebko, Prima la vita

Interview with Anna Netrebko — By Marion Mirande
Backstage

Rigoletto’s cardboard box

Episode 13 — By Jean-Yves Dary

Series - A production remembered
Backstage

Guillaume Gallienne directs La Cenerentola

In rehearsal — By Octave
Perspectives

En Quête de La Cenerentola

Episode 04 — By David Christoffel

Series - En Quête
Perspectives

Podcast Rigoletto

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By Judith Chaine
Perspectives

Draw me Rigoletto

with Hop'éra! — By Pauline Andrieu
Perspectives

Onegin

Episode 02 — By Nicolas Cavaillès

Series - Literary breaks
Perspectives

Podcast Eugène Onéguine

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By Judith Chaine
Encounters

Bastien and Bastienne at the funfair

Interview with Mirabelle Ordinaire, director — By Juliette Puaux
Perspectives

Draw me Eugène Onéguine

with Hop'éra ! — By Pauline Andrieu
Perspectives

En Quête on Wozzeck

Episode 03 — By David Christoffel

Series - En Quête
Perspectives

Fleeing from Impossible Passions

Episode 01 — By Dominique Fernandez

Series - Literary breaks
Backstage

A trip through the sets of The Snowmaiden

Video 360 ° — By Octave
Encounters

Wozzeck – Berg’s Atonal Explosion

Interview with Michael Schønwandt — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov

From Esteem to Rivalry — By André Lischke and Pauline Andrieu (Illustration)
Encounters

Mikhail Timoshenko

Performing in Wozzeck and Rigoletto — By Elia Marco and Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Balzac in motion

Trompe-la-Mort Round Table — By Octave

Theme - Trompe-la-Mort
Perspectives

Draw me Wozzeck

with Hop'éra! — By Pauline Andrieu
Encounters

Translating “The Snow Maiden”

Interview with André Markowicz — By Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Podcast Wozzeck

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By Judith Chaine
Perspectives

Podcast La Fille de neige

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By Judith Chaine
Encounters

Their Carmen

Interview with Roberto Alagna and Clémentine Margaine — By Marion Mirande and Simon Hatab

Theme - Carmen
Backstage

In celebration of Spring

The head-dresses for The Snow Maiden — By Octave
Perspectives

“A clasic Wozzeck”

Christoph Marthaler’s production through the eyes of the press — By Octave
Perspectives

Podcast Trompe-la-Mort

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By Judith Chaine

Theme - Trompe-la-Mort
Perspectives

Draw me Snowmaiden

with Hop'éra ! — By Pauline Andrieu
Encounters

“I filmed a Utopia.”

Interview with Jean-Stéphane Bron, film director of “L’Opéra” — By Sarah Barbedette
Encounters

An Hour in the Company of Thomas Lebrun

The Director of Les Fêtes d’Hébé — By Simon Hatab
Encounters

Sharing opera

Mikael Buch directs Médée for the 3e Scène — By Milena Mc Closkey

Theme - 3e Scène
Perspectives

Podcast Béatrice et Bénédict

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Calisto Bieito’s labyrinth of passion

Reflections on Carmen — By BANDE A PART

Theme - Carmen
Perspectives

What can Balzac tell us today?

Reflections on Trompe-la-Mort — By Agathe Novak-Lechevalier and Pauline Andrieu (Illustration)

Theme - Trompe-la-Mort
Perspectives

Podcast Carmen

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique

Theme - Carmen
Perspectives

Did Berlioz betray Shakespeare?

On the subject of "Beatrice and Benedict" — By Emmanuel Reibel and Pauline Andrieu (Illustration)
Perspectives

Wozzeck the rough diamond

Alban Berg’s great masterpiece — By Elise Petit and Pauline Andrieu (Illustration)
Encounters

The Cutting and Shaping of a New Work

Interview with Tim Van Steenbergen — By Marion Mirande

Theme - Trompe-la-Mort
Encounters

Henceforth there is war between us

Interview with Guy Cassiers — By Simon Hatab

Theme - Trompe-la-Mort
Perspectives

Berg, Boulez, Barrault, 1963

First Production of Wozzeck at the Paris Opera — By Octave
Backstage

Dancing with words

Backstage with Cosi fan tutte — By Octave
Encounters

A Striking Aesthetic Freedom

Interview with Susanna Mälkki — By Sarah Barbedette

Theme - Trompe-la-Mort
Encounters

Subtlety and musicality in Lohengrin

Interview with Stuart Skelton — By Marion Mirande
Perspectives

Dessine-moi La Flûte enchantée

A strip by Anouk Ricard — By Anouk Ricard
Perspectives

Podcast Così fan tutte

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Podcast La Flûte enchantée

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

Lohengrin, on the threshold of revolution

Conversation with Philippe Jordan — By Marion Mirande

Theme - Philippe Jordan
Encounters

All the same, men and women alike

Interview with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker — By Wannes Gyselinck
Perspectives

Podcast Lohengrin

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Draw me The Magic Flute

Mozart’s masterpiece in 2 minutes — By Philippe Dupuy
Perspectives

En Quête sur Iphigénie

Episode 02 — By David Christoffel

Series - En Quête
Perspectives

Opera and cinema

Multiple associations — By Benoit Basirico
Perspectives

Mario Martone surprises the Bastille

Insights into Cavalleria rusticana / Sancta Susanna — By Les Cahiers du Cinéma
Perspectives

En Quête sur Sancta Susanna

Episode 01 — By David Christoffel

Series - En Quête
Perspectives

How Gluck revolutionised opera

Iphigénie en Tauride at the Palais Garnier — By Charlotte Ginot-Slacik
Perspectives

"A sobriety both revealing and spectacular"

The Italian press on Cavalleria Rusticana — By Carla Bertin
Perspectives

Podcast Iphigénie en Tauride

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Krzysztof Warlikowski in images from the cinema and its ghosts

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Encounters

We spent an hour with Tom Creed

The director of Owen Wingrave — By Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Podcast Cavalleria rusticana / Sancta Susanna

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Backstage

The Christ of Sancta Susanna

In the Opera studios — By José Sciuto
Perspectives

Podcast Les Contes d'Hoffmann

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

This is my body

Cavalleria rusticana / Sancta Susanna by Mario Martone — By Simon Hatab and Farah Makki
Backstage

Too human

About Samson and Dalila — By Damiano Michieletto
Perspectives

Podcast Lucia di Lammermoor

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Podcast Samson et Dalila

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

Anja Harteros sings Tosca

Portfolio — By Octave
Perspectives

Podcast Tosca

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Podcast Eliogabalo

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

Thomas Jolly: Portrait of a rock star director

The stage director makes his operatic debut — By Simon Hatab
Perspectives

The life of the House

A fresh look at season 15/16 — By Octave
Perspectives

Schönberg, Verdi, Wagner and Berlioz: the commitment to cycles

A fresh look at season 15/16 — By Octave
Perspectives

The great debuts

A fresh look at season 15/16 — By Octave
Encounters

Thomas Jolly

Interview with Eliogabalo's stage director — By Felipe Sanguinetti
Perspectives

“Ten Months of School and Opera” celebrates its birthday

25 years of art and teaching — By Inès Artigala
Perspectives

Staging Aida

A Contemporary Challenge — By Thierry Santurenne
Perspectives

Podcast Aida

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

The deepest thing within us

Interview with Calixto Bieito — By Simon Hatab and Milena Mc Closkey
Perspectives

Podcast La Traviata

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By France Musique
Backstage

Portfolio│Amphitheatre of the Underworld

Machinery in the entrails of L’Orfeo — By Erwan Allainmat
Perspectives

Podcast Lear

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Shakespeare at the Opera

Adapting the story — By Walter Zidarič
Backstage

The mirrored rose of Der Rosenkavalier

Episode 03 — By Arnaud Regnault

Series - A production remembered
Perspectives

Rigoletto

as seen by the Academy — By Laurent Sarazin
Perspectives

Victor Hugo, a scriptwriter for operatic blockbusters?

A Fresh Look at Rigoletto — By Violaine Anger
Perspectives

A Time for Love

A fresh look at Der Rosenkavalier — By Clélia Renucci
Perspectives

Le Roi s’amuse in Court

Censorship and Society — By Marie-Laurence Marco
Encounters

Rigoletto's daughter

Portrait of Olga Peretyatko — By Felipe Sanguinetti
Encounters

Humanity and its masks

A portrait of Claus Guth — By Milena Mc Closkey
Backstage

Portfolio | Making reality grimace

Rigoletto in rehearsal — By Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Podcast Rigoletto

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Wagner and the Paris Opera in ten landmark events

The reception of Wagner’s operas from the 19th century until today. — By Corinne Schneider
Perspectives

A deformed and tragic jester

Rigoletto in his time — By Érika Wicky
Encounters

« Iolanta takes a growing place in my heart »

Sonya Yoncheva answers your questions ! — By Octave
Encounters

A comical Wagner

Interview with Philippe Jordan — By Laurent Sarazin

Theme - Philippe Jordan
Perspectives

Richard Wagner in Nuremberg

Spotlight on Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg — By Vincent Borel
Encounters

The Barber of Seville hand-to-hand

Interview with Lawrence Brownlee and Pretty Yende — By Octave
Encounters

A troubadour at war

Àlex Ollé. Portrait — By Isabelle Moindrot
Perspectives

Paris, 1942

An imaginary performance of Capriccio — By Aurélien Poidevin
Perspectives

Podcast Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By France Musique
Backstage

The Sextet from Capriccio

Episode 04 — By Milena Mc Closkey

Series - A production remembered
Perspectives

Podcast Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera - by France Musique — By France Musique
Backstage

The costumes for Werther

Episode 05 — By Annette Hasslert Risacher

Series - A production remembered
Perspectives

The spirit of the terrible, accursed witch still walks the earth

Spotlight on Il Trovatore — By Henriette Asséo and Simon Hatab
Perspectives

Podcast Il Trovatore

Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera - by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Podcast Capriccio

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Perspectives

Podcast Werther

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

The Third Man

A portrait of Robert Carsen — By Emmanuel Quinchez
Encounters

Jonas Kaufmann

About La Damnation de Faust — By Felipe Sanguinetti
Backstage

Portfolio | Who is the Faust of the 21st century?

La Damnation de Faust in rehearsal — By Simon Hatab
Encounters

A visionary composer

Philippe Jordan speaks about La Damnation de Faust — By Philippe Jordan

Theme - Philippe Jordan
Perspectives

Podcast La Damnation de Faust

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — Par France Musique
Encounters

A theatre of the human condition

Portrait of Krzysztof Warlikowski — By Leyli Daryoush
Perspectives

Podcast L'Elisir d'Amore

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" by France Musique — By France Musique
Perspectives

Podcast Bluebeard's Castle / La Voix humaine

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By France Musique
Encounters

Profession : Entertainer

A portrait of Pelly — By Aleksi Barrière
Perspectives

Podcast Moses und Aron

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Perspectives

Podcast Platée

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Perspectives

Podcast Don Giovanni

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