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Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andreas Schager

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramón Vargas

Every morning at dawn, in the Lammermuir hills in Southern Scotland, the beautiful Lucia meets Edgardo of Ravenswood, a mysterious young man with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pretty Yende

In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863, the painting caused a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ermonela Jaho

Prompted by Don Alfonso, a cynical old philosopher, two young idealists decide to put their lovers’ fidelity to the test. But love will teach...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jacquelyn Wagner

The first words uttered by Carmen mark one of the greatest entrances in the history of opera and express all that need be said: “Love is a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Elina Garanca

Ballet en deux actes et treize tableaux du chorég. This is a live recording of a performance at Paris Garnier in 2007. Petit's earlier...

Genre: Music

Cast: Eleonora Abbagnato

The Ballet de l'Opera National de Paris mounted this production of the late Pina Bausch's dance-opera Orpheus und Eurydike, which Bausch had adapted...

Genre: Music

Cast: Thomas Hengelbrock

Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Piero Cappuccilli

No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nicole Car

Observing in close up the students of the Opéra National de Paris' dance school, who day after day build their future as dancers,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michaël Denard

A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.

Genre: Action

Cast: Gerard Butler

Spiced with Italian buffa, L’Heure espagnole transports us to Torquemada’s clock shop, the scene of his wife Concepcion’s...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Clémentine Margaine

Les Huguenots is a monumental fresco featuring various impossible loves in the context of the Saint Bartholomew Massacre. Andreas Kriegenburg places...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yosep Kang

Prima ballerina takes the stage at the Ópera Bastille, consumed by her own anxiety and stage fright

Genre: Drama

Cast: Émilie Cozette

An impressive masked figure, Trompe‑la‑mort reveals his true character through his impalpable latent energy and a plot abounding in tragic twists...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Laurent Naouri

Two bored extras from the ‘Tristan and Isolde’ opera roam the underground of the Garnier Palace.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judith Chemla

"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's second opera to great heights. Andrei Serban's...

Genre: Music

Cast: Danielle de Niese

In 2008, the Opéra national de Paris honored the legendary Jerome Robbins. Though the general public may remember him primarily for his...

Genre: Music

Cast: Marie-Agnès Gillot

Divested of its traditional attributes – glass slipper and pumpkin carriage – and dominated by a tyrannical stepfather instead of a cruel...

Genre: Music

Cast: Lawrence Brownlee