The City of Light benefits from a rich history of opera, architecture, costume, fashion, fine art and cuisine…and a musical timeline spanning centuries. Performing at the historic Théatre du Châtelet, soprano superstar Renée Fleming is joined on stage by special guest star Piotr Beczala and featured performers Axelle Fanyo and Alexander Duhamel as they perform well-known opera selections with connections to Paris. As we tour famous locations in Paris including the Eiffel Tower, Fleming takes us through the beloved city to spots that influence arts and culture and importantly those with a personal connection to her. This
When a free-spirited woman is arrested, an impressionable soldier is charmed into letting her go. But having risked everything to be with her and lost, his hopes of happiness soon turn into a jealous rage. With equal parts danger and desire, Carmen is an intoxicating cocktail that never fails to excite the senses. French mezzo-soprano Stéphanie d'Oustrac plays the seductive heroine with a rock ‘n’ roll attitude who bears more than a passing resemblance to Amy Winehouse. Spanish director Àlex Ollé’s production is conducted by Kazushi Ono at the New National Theatre Tokyo.
In a kingdom where day is night and noon chills the blood, a prince suspects his mysterious wife to be in love with his half-brother. But where does Mélisande come from? And what do we really know about the two heroes' silent love? A single opera was all it took for Debussy to transform the history of music forever. Opéra de Lille presents us with a Mélisande full of vitality and determination, far from the familiar ethereal figure. In the pit, François-Xavier Roth and his internationally renowned ensemble Les Siècles, playing on period instruments, lend new colours to a score which we thought we knew.
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