Thanks to its highly relevant programming, the Opéra-Comique often plays to sold-out audiences, especially when a special event awaits its regular spectators. From December 13 to 21, 2024, Les Fêtes d’Hébé, Rameau’s magnificent opéra-ballet, will be staged by Robert Carsen, who reunites with William Christie for the eleventh time! But what makes this occasion truly […]
Building on the success of previous initiatives, the National Opéra-Comique Theatre is launching its 5th crowdfunding campaign in support of its Maîtrise Populaire, a multidisciplinary, top-tier performing arts training program dedicated to young people aged 8 to 25 from all social backgrounds. The Maîtrise provides 4,650 hours of artistic training per year to its 126 […]
She made a sensation at the 2023 Aix Festival (once again!), Marianne Crebassa is returning to the defining role in Picture a Day Like This, in Paris from October 25 to 31, 2024. George Benjamin‘s opera is being revived at the Opéra-Comique after the critical success it garnered during its Aix premiere. In this new […]
The antics of Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq, the famous directors, have made the beautiful evenings of the Opéra-Comique as with this priceless Domino Noir by Auber where the intervention of the pig José left its mark. The joyful production is being revived from September 20 to 28, 2024 with the musical direction of Louis […]
The terrible Armide has inspired many opera composers of genius. The Opéra Comique welcomes the heroine back from 17 to 25 June 2024, but it’s not the same music. Music lovers who heard Gluck‘s Armide last season will be able to draw comparisons with Lully‘s Armide, with the same libretto by Philippe Quinault and the […]
Louis Langrée, the famous conductor and artistic director of the Opéra-Comique, is inviting all the arts to the stage of the Salle Favart where, from 9 to 16 March 2024, you can see ballet and opera. By bringing together Igor Stravinsky‘s Pulcinella and Maurice Ravel‘s L’Heure espagnole, he has invited the étoile Clairemarie Osta to […]
Raphaël Pichon is a conductor who likes to play with scores. After the success of Miranda (a pasticcio based on a work by Purcell), the Opéra Comique entrusted him with a new production based on excerpts from Schubert’s operas. XWith these pieces put together, director Silvia Costa has built a production in which Stéphane Degout […]
While performances of Pascal Dusapin’s Macbeth Underworld have just ended at the Opéra Comique, its director Thomas Jolly is not leaving the Salle Favart, as the production of Offenbach’s Fantasio will be revived from 13 to 23 December 2023. Premiered in 2017 at the Théâtre du Châtelet during the renovation of the Opéra-Comique, this production […]
A highlight of the 2020 season, audiences at the Opéra Comique will finally be able to attend the French premiere of Pascal Dusapin‘s new opera. Performed at the Salle Favart in Paris from 6 to 12 November 2023, the production of Macbeth Underworld has been premiered at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie in Brussels […]
In Paris, the Opéra-Comique, always at the cutting edge, is preparing to host (from 27 September to 5 October 2023) La Fille de Madame Angot, a huge popular success by Charles Lecocq. Under the musical direction of Hervé Niquet, Richard Brunel‘s staging brings together the great names of Hélène Guilmette, Véronique Gens, Pierre Derhet, Julien […]
