Movies: Opera Comique

  • 2020
    Hippolyte et Aricie

    Hippolyte et Aricie (2020)

    Hippolyte et Aricie

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    In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutionary work: Hippolyte et Aricie. With its inventiveness and musical richness, Rameau’s opera marks a break in the history of French music. A similarly re...

    Hippolyte et Aricie
  • 2013
    Ciboulette

    Ciboulette (2013)

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    Ciboulette
  • 2018
    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice (2018)

    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

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    Amour, the messenger of the gods, tells Orpheus that he may descend to the underworld and return with Eurydice. His singing has the power to appease the Furies and animate the blessed Shadows. Yet, his voice cannot reassure Eurydice who despairs of t...

    Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice
  • 2020
    Le Postillon de Lonjumeau

    Le Postillon de Lonjumeau (2020)

    Le Postillon de Lonjumeau

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    Adolphe Adam’s Le Postillon de Lonjumeau was a great success at its premiere in 1836, and, along with the ballet Giselle, has remained one of the composer’s most popular works. Following the great French tradition, this opéra-comique has it all: 18th...

    Le Postillon de Lonjumeau
  • 2019
    La Belle Hélène

    La Belle Hélène (2019)

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    La Belle Hélène
  • 2022
    Les Brigands

    Les Brigands (2022)

    Les Brigands

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    “Everyone steals according to one’s position in society.” A social critique, a credo to live by, and a recipe for the hilarious satire of Jacques Offenbach’s Les Brigands! The Opéra Comique’s rollicking 2011 production took full advantage of the tale...

    Les Brigands
  • 2019
    Hamlet : Opéra-Comique

    Hamlet : Opéra-Comique (2019)

    Hamlet : Opéra-Comique

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    “To be, or not to be..." You probably know the question, but perhaps not Cyril Teste's answer! A stage director famed for his fascinating fusion of theater and film, he stages the opera Hamlet for the first time in this production starring a brillian...

    Hamlet : Opéra-Comique
  • 2022
    Fantasio

    Fantasio (2022)

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    Fantasio
  • 2019
    Chabrier: The Star

    Chabrier: The Star (2019)

    Chabrier: The Star

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    L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary Henri Duparc praised him specifically for creating a French comic genre, both funny and musical – described as something of a French Die Meistersinger...

    Chabrier: The Star