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Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work, blending reality and the surreal on several levels. This passionate new production by Jose Montalvo, stunningly choreographed by Montalvo and Dominique Hervieu, sets new standards in entertainment, charm and ingenuity. The sharp and spectacular multimedia staging does full justice to Rameau's dazzling burlesque, confirming Olivier Rouviere's statement that 'Les Paladins is the last laugh of a witty 77-year old composer'. Recorded live in 2004 at the Paris Theatre du Chatelet, both the virtuoso cast and Les Arts Florissants are in top form, clearly enjoying themselves in the masterful hands of William Christie.

A three act ballet choreographed by the dancing legend Rudolf Nureyev, and inspired by many different passages in the classic Cervantes novel Don Quixote.

Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017.

'A mix of futurism à la Metropolis, fantasy à la Batman and quotes from Piranesi's Carceri, juxtaposed in the form of photo montages, enhanced with...robots, a helicopter, a shark and the winged vehicle of a pop star Pope', was how the Neue Zürcher Zeitung described this astonishing Salzburg Festival production of Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini. The high-calibre cast, headed by Burkhard Fritz as the temperamental Renaissance artist and the 26-year-old Latvian soprano Maija Kovalevska as Teresa, the woman with whom he tries to elope, is conducted by Valery Gergiev who 'pulled out all the stops. He whips the Vienna Philharmonic into a delirium similar to that which possibly took hold of the composer'. (Der Standard) This is French grand opera at its fast-paced and spectacularly-staged best.

This epic opera follows Virgil, beginning as the Greeks appear to have ceded the field after ten years of the Trojan War. Cassandra tries to warn of the terrible fate to come, but fate is set and Troy falls. The first two acts cover this tragic end, then the flight of survivors to Carthage and events at Carthage continue in acts 3 - 5, culminating in the further voyage for Italy and Rome. This is Virgil's classic epic, in operatic form, in about a three and a half hour performance from French Opera.

Mozart's opera, here in a different version from the Glyndebourne Festival 2019. All music and Schikaneder's libretto are of course included. But the plot has been moved to a British hotel at the beginning of the last century. A show with a lot of humor, warmth and charm. The young Norwegian star soprano Caroline Wettergreen is "The best Queen of the Night in 40 years", wrote the Financial Times.

The story of a real 18th-century French actress, leading lady of the Comédie-Française in Paris, who was believed to have been poisoned by a love rival.

Countess tries to reform her philandering husband with the aid of 3 servants just before 2 of them are to marry.

George Dandin, paysan fortuné, a acquis un titre de noblesse en épousant la fille d'un hobereau ruiné, Angélique de Sotenville. Mais la jeune femme, mariée contre son gré par des parents sans scrupules, ne cesse de le cocufier. Bafoué, humilié, Dandin est résolu à la prendre en flagrant délit d'adultère... Une comédie-ballet de Molière et Lully, créée à Versailles en 1668.

The story tells of the pretty market gardener Ciboulette who, after an encounter with a fortune teller, decides to throw herself into a hedonistic future. She comes across a whole collection of Parisian characters, but true love eventually triumphs as the prophecy is fulfilled.

Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

The Tales of Hoffmann, Offenbach's haunting tale of one man's desire for a parade of unattainable beauties, is presented in a captivating production from the Opéra de Paris.