After the usual summer break, which is always too long for music lovers, the 2025/2026 season at the Opéra-Comique opens on 25 September 2025 with Les Contes d’Hoffmann (The Tales of Hoffmann), Jacques Offenbach‘s only opera and absolute masterpiece. Lotte de Beer‘s production comes from Strasbourg, where it premiered last January at the Opéra national […]

After shining in this same role at the Paris Opera, French tenor Benjamin Bernheim is preparing to conquer America as Hoffmann, the hero with broken dreams. Offenbach’s famous and unique opera, Les Contes d’Hoffmann, returns to the Metropolitan Opera starting September 24, 2024, as the season opener (notably with Pretty Yende as Olympia). But Parisian […]