OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS - OPÉRA BASTILLE

The ballet, based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, is a classic of the virtuos repertoire. The ideal protagonist is the hero of battles ...

In an hilarious change of pace from Salome and Moby-Dick, we laugh as the doddering old fool Pasquale is tricked into thinking he has married ...

The battle of the sexes rages on in Mozart’s most provocative comedy. As a philosopher engages a quartet of lovers in a subversive game that ...

As an echo of the tricentenary celebrations of the French school, the Ballet School's performance this year allies tradition and modernity, giving pupils the opportunity ...

One of the oldest, yet most enduringly loved, of all narrative ballets, La Fille mal gardée exudes the freshness, frothiness and sweetnatured innocence of a ...

The most irresistible courtesan in opera - onstage at the Winspear for the very first time-in this lavish and lovely production from Florida Grand Opera! ...

Peter Grimes does not fit. Society have their eye over the shoulder and whisper among themselves his name. Certainly, Grimes committed a crime? He was ...

Carmen, a sizzling opera composed by Georges Bizet, is a timeless tale of love, jealousy, and fiery passion. Debuting at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in ...

Une formidable entrée dans l’écoute de la musique contemporaine : ludique, théâtrale, émotionnelle. L’une des missions de l’Ensemble Justiniana est de faire découvrir les musiques ...

When Tchaikovsky goes back to the realm of childhood, his music becomes suffused with enchantment and nostalgia as well as with nightmarish terrors. The fruit ...

Patricia Racette won plaudits when she first sang the title role at the Met in 2010. Now she returns with Roberto Alagna and Aleksandrs Antonenko ...

Is it a) Ancient Egypt, b) Europe in the Age of Enlightenment, or c) a land beyond our imagination? The answer is: d) all of ...

When he adapted Romeo and Juliette, the librettist Felice Romani chose to go back in time past Shakespeare, to the Italian origins of the legend. ...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma giocoso in two acts by Gioachino Rossini. The libretto was ...

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony N° 2 in C minor "Resurrection"...

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony N° 2 in C minor "Resurrection"...

Balanchine’s timeless choreography brings to life Shakespeare’s magical and humorous story of a fairy kingdom and the humans that enter into it. This tale features ...

In the prologue of the Ring, the entire cycle has already been prophesied. At the sound of a chord that seemingly emanates from the depths ...

In creating this ebullient opera buffa, Rossini captured all the fiery spirit of the comedy by Beaumarchais that inspired it. A native of Venice, birthplace ...

Originally created in 1994 by choreographer Angelin Preljocaj, this ballet embodies a subtle balance between classical whisperings of Mozart and modern choreographical language. With a ...

Raymonda, which premiered in 1898 at Saint Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre to Alexander Glazunov’s scintillating score, was Marius Petipa’s quintessential narrative ballet. A genuine medieval fantasy ...

Borodin’s only opera, this great Russian epic, best known for its Polovtsian Dances, questions the responsibilities of a leader with regard to his people. Having ...

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 ...

A work without equal in musical writing, Steve Reich’s Drumming unfurls its powerful score for percussion from a single obsessive rhythm which grows and is ...

In Victor Hugo’s luxuriant drama Le Roi s’amuse, Verdi found theatre worthy of Shakespeare. Such, at least, were his enthusiastic words when he urged his ...

In November 1836, irritated by the French lieutenant Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d’Anthès’ importunate attentions towards his wife, the beautiful Natalia Nicolaïevna Gontcharova, Alexander Pushkin challenged ...

The musicians and members of the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus are offering a series of lunchtime concerts preceded by an introductory meeting. The complete ...

Alban Berg discovered Büchner’s Woyzeck in 1914. Highly impressed, he began work adapting the play with a view to writing an opera. The work had ...

Snegurochka was born in times of old in Tsar Berendey’s mythical kingdom, the fruit of the union between Spring the Beauty and Grandfather Frost. Protected ...

After the scandal surrounding the first performance of Hippolyte et Aricie and the stormy reception of Les Indes galantes, Jean-Philippe Rameau finally gained incontestable fame ...

Numerous choreographers have delved into Shakespeare to find dramatic material for their ballets, beginning with Jean-Georges Noverre, an ardent defender of the “action ballet” and ...

Mozart’s last opera is a firework display that takes the form of a tale of initiation. A prince from a far?off land in search of ...

Lohengrin appears in a “silvery?blue” light aboard a boat pulled by a swan (Thomas Mann). He has just saved Elsa, accused of murdering her brother, ...

Drawing on ancient Slavic and Norse mythology where destiny is often born out of the mysterious forces of nature, Swan Lake has become a legend ...

A small village in Sicily, Easter Sunday. A despondent Santuzza searches for Turiddu, the man she loves. Before leaving for the army he was in ...

Owen Wingrave comes from an old military family with its gallery of forbears who died on the battlefield and their share of legends – some ...

"We are made great by love and greater still by our tears." Hoffmann, Épilogue By the time he came to tackle the composition of Les ...

"Heaven and earth have betrayed me! I would like to cry but I cannot… Even tears have abandoned me!" Lucia, Acte II, scène 6 Every ...

"Strip the invulnerable shield from his heart and discover the secret of his strength." Samson et Dalila, Acte II, scène 2 Lightning streaks through the ...

"These rivals of the Madonna have a whiff of sulphur about them." Il Sagrestano, Acte I How was it that when Sardou’s drama was transformed ...

The musicians and members of the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus are offering a series of lunchtime concerts preceded by an introductory meeting. The complete ...

Alexei Ratmansky looks back to the past on an artistic journey he set out on when he became Director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet and that ...

"In the land of my ancestors, the air is fragrant and the earth is covered with perfumed flowers. The green fields and pleasant valleys will ...

"I try to think about choreographing the way an architect builds a structure." - Justin Peck The tribute to Arnold Schönberg will close with two ...

"Farewell sweet, happy dreams of the past, the roses of my cheeks have already faded." - La Traviata, Act III, scene 1 Verdi was looking ...

When one has, throughout his life of joyous and fearless hero, survived the battles against the army of the Grand Turk, the most terrible beasts ...

Serguei Prokofiev Symphony N°1 "Classical" in D major, op.25 Maurice Ravel Concerto for piano in G major Modeste Moussorgski Pictures from an exhibition...

Der Rosenkavalier, Act I “The Marschallin, Ochs, Octavian, wealthy Faninal and his daughter… it is as if the vital links forged between these characters have ...

SERGEI RACHMANINOV Concerto n. 3 in D minor, op. 30 RICHARD STRAUSS Thus Spoke Zarathustra, op. 30...

"Gentlemen, give an old man back his daughter. To give her back will cost you nothing, my daughter is all I have in this world. ...

Joseph Vella Le Mid-Dit Op 149 pour cornet, trombone, tuba et xylophone William Kraft Encounter 4 for trombone and percussion Joseph Vella Talae Op 116 ...

Thomas Christian David Variations on a theme by J.N.David Krzysztof Penderecki Duo Concertant Arcangelo Corelli Sonata opus 5 N° 1 Edgar Meyer Concert Duo, 1st ...

After an interval of more than a decade, the National Theatre will again include in its repertoire Janá?ek’s celebrated “philosophical revue“ on animals and people, ...

Wayne McGregor has steeped himself in the work of Francis Bacon, finding in his strange, visceral universe an echo of his own choreographic research. He ...

In the 18th century, the French language had no greater champion than Adrienne Lecouvreur. Queen among tragic actresses in the eyes of a besotted Voltaire, ...

Simplicity, truth and naturalness: these, according to Gluck, are the eternal attributes of beauty and the ultimate goal to which he aspired. "Alceste must not ...

La Fille mal gardée is the oldest action ballet in the French repertoire and at the same time the first modern one. First performed at ...

Symphony no. 9 in D minor op. 125...

Johannes Brahms Liebeslieder, op. 52 Neue Liebeslieder, op. 65 Duos, op. 20, 28, 61, 66, 75 (extraits)...

We will never know how the presentiment of death came to Mozart, or in what form death sent its messengers. However, all the music composed ...

Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra op. 80 Symphony no. 9 in D minor op. 125...

Drawing essentially on Prévert’s poetic screenplay for Marcel Carné’s film masterpiece, the Étoile José Martinez creates his first major ballet for the Company, Les Enfants ...

Franz Schubert, Alban Berg...

Tielman Susato Danserye Suite Michael Praetorius Suite de Terpsychore Francisco Tarrega Recuerdos de la Alhambra Richard Strauss Beim Schlafengehen (Vier letzte Lieder)...

Maurice Ravel Chansons madécasses (“Songs of Madagascar”)...

around ERNEST CHAUSSON Karol Szymanowski Quatuor à cordes n°1 Ernest Chausson Piece for viola and piano, op. 39 Zoltan Kodaly Sonata for cello and piano ...

Ernest Chausson Poème for violin and piano George Enescu Sonata no. 3 for violin and piano Ernest Chausson Chanson perpétuelle for voice, piano and string ...

Inspired by L'Abbé Prévost’s legendary heroes, Kenneth MacMillan expresses his fascination for offbeat characters and dramatic subjects. The choreographer faithfully follows the novel’s plot and ...

Symphony no. 8 in F major op. 93 Symphony no. 6 in F major « Pastoral » op. 68...

As the title suggests, the music of the virtuoso Franz Schubert sets the tone in this first NDT 2 programme....

Guillaume Lekeu Méditation for string quartet Ernest Chausson String quartet, op. 35 (completed by Vincent d’Indy) Claude Debussy String quartet in G minor...

Luigi Arditi, Vincenzo Bellini, Charles Gounod, Reynaldo Hahn, Francis Poulenc...

Claude Debussy, Manuel De Falla, Enrique Granados Works for piano Maurice Maeterlinck Poems and texts in prose...

“I am young, it is true, but to souls nobly born, True valour cannot wait for the years to advance”. How many theatrical vocations have ...

Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, Rudi Stephan, Franz Schubert...

As an echo of the tricentenary celebrations of the French school, the Ballet School's performance this year allies tradition and modernity, giving pupils the opportunity ...

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony N° 2 in C minor "Resurrection"...

The emblematic French opera, one of its greatest successes and, at the same time, in a way, its memory. Gounod recalled having the book by ...

Inspired by tales of water nymphs or vila - those elemental aquatic spirits so dear to the Romantics – Rusalka tells the moving story of ...

John Neumeier has always anchored his work in his profound musicality but it is probably in the music of Gustav Mahler that he has found ...

Josef Suk Meditation on the Saint Wenceslas Chorale for string quartet op. 35 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quartet for oboe and strings, K. 370 Antonín Dvo?ák ...

Before discovering Maeterlinck's play, Debussy said of the opera he dreamt of composing: "Music begins when words are powerless to express; music is perfect for ...

Ludwig Van Beethoven Trio n° 5 in C minor, op. 9 n° 3 Gustav Mahler Piano and string Quartet in A minor Johannes Brahms Piano ...

This programme brings together three pieces especially created for the Opera Ballet juxtaposing the artistic visions of three contemporary choreographers all of whom, in their ...

"Music is a sacred art, gathering the wildest follies like cherubim around a gleaming throne!" Such is the Composer's article of faith, vehemently proclaimed at ...

Die Entführung aus dem Serail was the first grand opera in the German language to be constructed as a Singspiel, that typically Germanic theatrical form ...

Of the three operas written with Da Ponte, Don Giovanni is indubitably the darkest and the most desperate. All the characters, the seducer and those ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Serguey Rachmaninov Melodies...

Hugo Wolf Settings of poems by Eduard Mörike...

Ludwig Van Beethoven Sextet for two horns and strings, op. 81b Franz Schubert String Quintet in C major D. 956...

Benjamin Britten Cantique I, op. 40 : My Beloved is Mine Cantique II, op. 52 : Abraham and Isaac Cantique III, op. 55 : Still ...

This year the Paris Opera hosts one of the oldest dance companies in Europe. Founded in 1773 by King Gustav III, the Royal Ballet of ...

When Tchaikovsky goes back to the realm of childhood, his music becomes suffused with enchantment and nostalgia as well as with nightmarish terrors. The fruit ...

The Persia of legend and fantasy provides the backdrop for the thwarted loves of the hunter Djemil, the beautiful Nouredda, promised to the Khan, and ...

There is perhaps nothing more straightforward than La Bohème: a young man and a young woman meet, fall in love, are separated by life and ...

The Persia of legend and fantasy provides the backdrop for the thwarted loves of the hunter Djemil, the beautiful Nouredda, promised to the Khan, and ...

When Tchaikovsky goes back to the realm of childhood, his music becomes suffused with enchantment and nostalgia as well as with nightmarish terrors. The fruit ...

Alongside the annual production, a series of demonstrations, presented in the form of classes, afford an appreciation of the breadth, richness and excellence of this ...

Nino Rota Piccola Offerta musicale for wind quintet Louis Spohr Nonet in F major, op. 31 Nino Rota Nonetto...

In 1881, the twenty-seven-year-old Engelbert Humperdinck became Richard Wagner’s assistant in Bayreuth. Wagner had two more years to live. These two years of intense artistic ...

Symphony no. 4 in B flat major op. 60 Symphony no. 5 in C minor op. 67...

Bernard Herrmann Souvenir de voyage, for clarinet and string quartet Samuel Barber Dover Beach, for baritone and string quartet Aaron Copland Sextet for clarinet, piano ...

A singer in love, passionate, jealous and impulsive; a romantic painter, an idealist and a defender of liberty; a police chief with a lust for ...

Luciano Berio Duetti for two violins (extracts) Karlheinz Stockhausen Kontakte for piano, percussion and tape Pierre-Yves Macé Ambidextre for children’s choir, viola and cello, commissioned ...

Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Alexander Zemlinsky, Richard Strauss, Alban Berg Lieder...

Arnold Schönberg Kammersymphonie, op. 9 (transcription by Webern) Bruno Mantovani Carnaval, work for clarinet, piano and violin (French premier, commissioned by the Wigmore Hall, London, ...

Philippe Jordan Symphony no. 2 in D major Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92 « Eroica », op. 55...

With Rain, Anne Teresa de Kersmaeker, a major figure on the choreographic scene,gives us a work of rare intensity and refined purity. The choreographer leads ...

Antoine Tamestit Concert Luigi Nono Für Paul Dessau (solo tape) Olga Neuwirth First performance of a new work for viola and tape commissioned by the ...

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Sonata for clarinet and piano in E flat major Jörg Widmann Intermezzi for piano Robert Schumann Fantasiestücke op.73 Jörg Widmann Fantaisie for clarinet ...

Undoubtedly the most famous opera buffa in the history of music and an eternal source of delight. Rossini composed it in just a few weeks, ...

Heitor Villa-Lobos Bachianas Brasileiras n° 1, 4 & 5 Little Suite for cello and piano Rudepoema...

Samuel Barber Wind Quintet Summer Music, op. 31 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Quintette pour piano et vents, K. 452 Maurice Ravel Le Tombeau de Couperin, by ...

Zoltan Kodaly, Paul Hindemith, Benjamin Britten, Guillaume Connesson Works for unaccompanied cello...

Arnold Schönberg Erwartung, op. 17 Johannes Brahms Symphonie n° 4 en E minor, op. 98...

Arnold Schönberg Works for piano Gustav Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (‘Songs of a Wayfarer’) Arnold Schönberg Gurrelieder (original version for voices and piano 1900 ...

“Poor Mariette Duplessis is dead... the first woman I ever loved, and now she's in goodness knows which cemetery, abandoned to the maggots of the ...

in two parts and two places Luigi Nono « Hay que caminar… » soñando for two violins Karlheinz Stockhausen Rotary Quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, ...

Etudes transposes a dance class to the stage. Conceived by Harald Lander who was a choreographer, ballet master and director of the Opera’s Ballet School, ...

Gabriel Fauré La Chanson d’Ève Enrique Granados, Joachín Rodrigo, Fernando Obradors Melodies...

Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 36 Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92...

The Tanztheater Wuppertal, which has just celebrated its fortieth anniversary, returns to the stage of the Palais Garnier with Two Cigarettes in the Dark. First ...

Created in 1965, Roland Petit's first production for the Opera Ballet, Notre Dame de Paris,is an intense work. With his highly developed sense of theatricality ...

There is perhaps nothing more straightforward than La Bohème: a young man and a young woman meet, fall in love, are separated by life and ...

The Paris Opera celebrates Nicolas Le Riche and honours his departure. After more than thirty years at the Opera, Nicolas Le Riche shares memories of ...

Neither Fortune nor Virtue can vie with Love who, with a mere wave of the hand, can transform the world: such is the message conveyed ...

“Poor Mariette Duplessis is dead... the first woman I ever loved, and now she's in goodness knows which cemetery, abandoned to the maggots of the ...

Le roi Arthus comesto the Paris Opera at last! This rarely performed masterpiece by Chausson was written for the Opera Garnier and here it is, ...

Richard Wagner Tannha?user (overture) Richard Strauss Lieder Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, op. 14...

When he adapted Romeo and Juliette, the librettist Felice Romani chose to go back in time past Shakespeare, to the Italian origins of the legend. ...

Orphée et Eurydice is one of Pina Bausch’s major works. The choreographer brings flesh and blood to Gluck’s score –here conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock—while opting ...

Joseph Masilier’s Paquita enchanted Théophile Gautier when it was first performed at the Paris Opera in 1846. Carlotta Grisi was one of its principal perfomers ...

Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, for strings Franz Schubert Symphony N° 8 in C major (The Great), D 944...

In 1857 Wagner took a pause from composing the Ring, abandoning Siegfried in the depths of the forest to embark upon another quest. The composer ...

Ludwig Thuille Sextet for piano and wind quintet, op. 6 Ludwig Van Beethoven Quintet for piano and winds, op. 16...

One of Rossini’s most exquisite successes, from a composer who was just 21 at the time: an opera buffa which has retained all its charm ...

The Young Dancers performances allow the upcoming generation to shine on stage in extracts from both classical works and today's repertoire. An opportunity for the ...

We will never know how death revealed itself to Mozart and when and in what form it dispatched its messengers to him. Nevertheless, all the ...

Jean Cras Quintet with harp Jean Françaix String trio André Jolivet Chant de Linos Claude Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp Albert Roussel Sérénade...

Echoing the Tricentennial celebrated in 2013, the school of dance continues its journey through the history of the choreographic style of the French school of ...

For his first ballet, Swan Lake, a singularly sweet and melancholy work, composed in 1876, Tchaikovsky drew on ancient Nordic legends of young girls transformed ...

John Cage Third construction Maurice Ohana Étude d’interprétation n° 11 « Sons confondus » ; Étude d’interprétation n° 12 « Imitations-Dialogues » George Crumb Music ...

Widely regarded as the greatest opera ever composed, Don Giovanni tells of the devious schemes and hijinks of history’s most beguiling scoundrel, Don Juan. Mozart’s ...

Modeste Moussorgski Night on the Bare Mountain Serguei Rachmaninov Piano concerto N° 3 Dimitri Chostakovitch Symphony N° 6 in B minor, op. 54...

Pioneers of 20th century dance, Agnes de Mille and Birgit Cullberg both ventured along new pathways in order to translate the passions and inner conflicts ...

Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and most comprehensive portraits of a woman in the history of opera—but also one of the most terrible, since ...

With Onéguine, John Cranko has conceived one of the key ballets of the repertoire. Inspired by Alexander Pushkin's verse-novel, he has streamlined the story and ...

Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade Ottorino Respighi String quartet in D major Giacomo Puccini Crisantemi Ottorino Respighi Il Tramonto...

"In those strange days, people coming from God knows where, joined forces in that far Western land, and, according to the rude custom of the ...

"From Alcina you will receive the sceptre and the power and you will be the happiest of mortals. But you will soon become no more ...

In Massenet's masterpiece, from the moment the moonlight idyll is revealed and then shattered, the tears never cease to flow. "My entire being weeps", says ...

Benjamin Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Frederick Delius Violin concerto Johannes Brahms Symphony n° 3...

Following their last tour in 2011, the prestigious Bolshoi Theatre Ballet has again been invited to perform at the Palais Garnier. They return this season ...

The “Ballet of ballets” as Rudolf Nureyev described it, Sleeping Beauty remains one of the jewels in the heritage of dance. First performed in 1890 ...

The “Ballet of ballets” as Rudolf Nureyev described it, Sleeping Beauty remains one of the jewels in the heritage of dance. First performed in 1890 ...

Like a stroll through the labyrinths of love, Le Parc follows its course through the codes of seduction, from initial encounters to physical love and ...

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony N° 2 in C minor "Resurrection"...

Like a stroll through the labyrinths of love, Le Parc follows its course through the codes of seduction, from initial encounters to physical love and ...

Présentation Mozart's last opera, along with Die Zauberflöteand the Requiem, is his testament, the testament of an aesthete but also that of a humanist. From ...

Leonard Bernstein West Side Story George Gershwin Porgy and Bess Suite Daniel Schnyder Brass Quintet Paquito d’Rivera Four Songs for Brass Quintet...

As an echo to the Tricentenary celebrations of 2013, the Paris Opera Ballet School pursues its journey through the stylistic history of the French School. ...

At a time when the whole of Europe was obsessed by Romanticism, what nation did not dream of Italy? Goethe's Mignon sings of the Sicilian ...

Edgar Varese Intégrales Serguei Prokofiev Romeo and Juliette, Suites N° 1 and N° 2 (excerpts) Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski Symphony N° 4 in F minor, op. ...

The time taken by a slow sunset. This is Hofmannsthal's stage direction for the performance of Elektra, a one-act tragedy of unimaginable darkness and violence. ...

Eight Pieces for Four Timpani (Improvisation- Adagio-Canaries) Steep Steps Due Duetti Two Fragments Quintet for clarinet and string quartet Con leggerezza pensosa A Six Letter ...

With its fascination for Egypt, 19th century Europe seems to have embarked on an intoxicating voyage down the Nile, marvelling at the colours of that ...

United in their quest for beauty, three contemporary choreographers each bring the stage alive according to their own sensibility to enhance the aesthetics of their ...

Thus do they all or The School for Lovers. When Lorenzo da Ponte is the teacher, the lesson is harsh and cruel, even if Mozart ...

Franz Schreker Der Wind Erwin Schulhoff Concertino Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel, op. 28 Hanns Eisler 14 ways to describe rain, op. 70 Leoš Janácek Concertino...

Franz Liszt confessed that he was unable to think of Marie Duplessis, the muse of Alexandre Dumas who inspired his Dame aux camélias, without shedding ...

In Paris in 1835, Donizetti could not hope to compete against the wave of enthusiasm for I Puritani by his rival Bellini. His Marino Faliero, ...

Simplicity, truth and naturalness: these, according to Gluck, are the eternal attributes of beauty and the ultimate goal to which he aspired. "Alceste must not ...

"Who would want to live for eternity?" asks Emilia Marty as she is about to die, brandishing the formula for the elixir that has allowed ...

Presented by Monica Loughman Ballet with principle dancers of the Mariinksky Theatre and San Jose Ballet. Artistic Director Monica Loughman is bringing two of the ...

The origins of this work lie in artist Olivier Debré’s desire to translate into a series of paintings the feeling elicited in him by a ...

Olivier Messiaen Un sourire Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto n° 20 in D minor, K. 466 Carl Nielsen Symphony n° 4 The Inextinguishable, op. 29...

It is Brünnhilde herself who, at the end of The Valkyrie, names the son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, the long-awaited hero Siegfried. The second day ...

Nothing, in the bitingly cruel prelude that is The Rhinegold, could foreshadow the blazing miracle of The Walkyrie whose role within the Ring cycle is ...

A simple E flat major chord, austere and unchanging, inaudible up until now but no doubt present since all eternity. Scarcely perceptible at first, the ...

William Shakespeare, in the early years of the 17th century, had been unable to resist bringing to the stage the character of Cleopatra, the bewitching ...

At last the dusk approaches: it has been heralded, promised almost, since The Rhine Gold, and we have been awaiting it with impatience. The whole ...

For choreographers, ballet music has never ceased to be a source of inexhaustible inspiration offering a plethora of new readings and personal interpretations. If The ...

In his preface to Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, one of his rare prose plays, Victor Hugo says that drama has to be both noble and ...

Gustav Mahler Symphony n° 10 (Adagio) Dimitri Shostakovitch Symphony n° 13 in B flat minor Babi Yar, op. 113...

The entire edifice of John Neumeier’s work is built around a profound musical sensibility. However, the choreographer, in his constant questioning of the human condition, ...

Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor broomstick maker and his wife. One day they are playing so boisterously that they neglect their ...