Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

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Towards the Gluck Renaissance ?

Julien Chauvin, the Concert de la Loge and the Chantres du Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, in partnership with the CMBV, are mobilising to revive C. W. Gluck’s Iphigénie en Aulide, first in Soissons (on 2 October 2022 at the Cité de la musique et de la danse de Soissons as part of the […]

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Jakub Józef Orliński in tears

The Champs-Elysées will welcome Orpheus and Eurydice as it should, but from 21 September to 1 October 2022, this is not mythology! The Théâtre des Champs-Elysées reprises Robert Carsen’s magnificent production of Gluck’s opera to offer the superb Jakub Józef Orliński the iconic and much-anticipated role of Orfeo. With his golden voice and magazine cover […]

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Back to the real Vie Parisienne

The Palazzetto Bru Zane teams always delights music lovers with their many exciting rediscoveries of the 19th century French repertoire. Intense musicological work on Offenbach is bearing fruit on the stage with the exhumation of the complete original 1866 version (never heard before) of the Opéra-bouffe masterpiece, Offenbach’s La Vie Parisienne. For the first time, […]

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The winners of the Paris Opera Competition 2019 are…

The winners of the Paris Opera Competition 2019 further to the finale held at the Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on Friday 18 January 2019 are French soprano Mélissa Petit, third prize, French baritone Jérôme Boutillier, second prize and Russian baritone Ilya Kutyukhin who wins both first prize and the public prize. All the young singers […]

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Lea Desandre replaces Marianne Crebassa in Paris

Mezzo Marianne Crebassa is unwell and had to cancel the Handel concert on 7 April at the Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. She was supposed to perform Handel’s Italian Cantatas with soprano Sabine Devieilhe and Emmanuelle Haïm, conducting Le Concert d’Astrée. Fortunatly, young and talented mezzo Lea Desandre replaces.