Opera
Rameau : Daphnis & Eglé / La Naissance d’Osiris
Two works that have rarely seen the light of day. Setting them alongside Rameau’s tragédies lyriques one might be tempted to dismiss them as flimsy entertainments but they reveal a world full of charm, humanity, sensuality, and grace. These are not pieces written for the opera houses of Paris but fo...
The Flying Dutchman (Wagner)
Opéra in three acts
Music & libretto by Richard Wagner - Paris version (1842)
Paris in summer 1841 : during a few weeks, richard Wagner influenced by Romantic Opera, composes Der fliegende Holländer, which he will consider as the first opera worthy of his quill. The version written in the French ca...
The Musketeers at the Convent
Opérette in 3 acts by Louis Varney
Libretto by Jules Prével & Paul Ferrier adapted by Jérôme Deschamps
based on a vaudeville by St-Hilaire and Dupont entitled "L'habit ne fait pas le moine"
Created in Paris, at the Bouffes-Parisiens, on March 1880
"Musketeers! In a convent!", Residents not that ho...
The Pilgrim Woman, a Florentine celebration opera
Combining different artistic disciplines for the first time, La Pellegrina marks the birth of the opera from the sixteenth century, twenty-eight years before Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Jacopo Peri’s Eurydice.
In the spring of 1589, to welcome Christine of Lorraine, who was coming to join her new husband...
THE BARBER OF SEVILLE
Opera "The Barber of Seville" by Gioacchino Rossini, after the eponymous play by Beaumarchais.
Recorded at the Bordeaux Opera, directed by Joan FONT and directed by Paolo OLMI, with the Bordeaux Aquitaine National Orchestra, conducted by Paolo OLMI, and the Choir of the Opéra national d...
Memoriae or the story of a creation
Documentary based on the chamber opera "Memoriae, voice of childhood, voice of exile", written and directed by Orianne Moretti.
An original documentary in the form of a making-of, combining interviews, rehearsal sessions and on-stage extracts, retracing the history of this show.
MEMORIAE, childhood voices, voices of exile
Staging and set: Orianne MORETTI
Musical director: Philippe SPINOSI
Choreography: Bruno BOUCHE de l'Opéra de Paris
As part of the Reims Scènes d'Europe Festival, recording of the chamber opera "Memoriae", written and directed by Orianne Moretti, which is a journey through the...
THE MAD LOVERS
A lyrico-dramatic show by Orianne Moretti, based on Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
A journey through the madness of passionate love and shattered futures.
A show at the crossroads of the Arts, in which words (theatre and poetry), notes (song, piano, cello) and movement (dance) transport us to a reinter...
TURANDOT (Ferruccio Busoni)
The opera is inspired by the play "Turandot" by Count Carlo Gozzi. "Turandot, the Emperor’s daughter, challenges her suitors to solve three riddles. She will marry the one who succeeds, but those who fail will be executed. Kalaf, an exiled prince in disguise, takes up the challenge”. Busoni composed...
SALUSTIA
An Italian opera composed by Jean-Baptiste Pergolèse in 1731.
Salustia loves without restraint. In the face of fate and in particular her role as wife to the emperor Alessandro, she seems to draw on every drop of memory, finesse and imagination she possesses. She never judges, always understands ...
