What an afternoon! On this July Saturday, in its usual and ever-so-picturesque misty setting, the Glyndebourne Festival offers us a magnificent tribute to Mozart’s sublime masterpiece — a pinnacle of…
NORMA | Teatro alla Scala
Decades of waiting—yes, literal decades—had gone by without Norma being staged in the most iconic theatre of the Italian repertoire. You can imagine my reaction when, in May 2024, I…
FAUST | Théâtre National de l’OpĂ©ra-Comique
But a ghost is not a corpse (…). It is a living being. Only its body stems from the soul: it has no surplus flesh, no hunger, no thirst, no…
COSI FAN TUTTE | Opéra de Lyon
On June 18, 2025, the OpĂ©ra de Lyon offered up a refreshingly original and engaging version of Cosi fan tutte that charmed with its creativity, playfulness, and clever restraint. In Marie Eve…
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA | Opéra National Paris
On this warm Parisian evening, OpĂ©ra de Paris brought back Damiano Michieletto’s visually striking and brilliantly clever production, and it’s just as dazzling and fun as ever. The set—an imaginative…
ANDREA CHENIER | Deutsche Oper Berlin
Among the pinnacles of the verismo repertoire, Andrea ChĂ©nier holds a special place — and, as always with Giordano, it demands a careful balance: between the pure beauty of the…
DER ROSENKAVALIER | Théâtre des Champs Elysées
It is perhaps the opera that moves me the most. These are the words chosen by Alain Duault at the beginning of the section dedicated to Rosenkavalier in his Dictionnaire amoureux de l’opĂ©ra….