Venue: Opéra Comique: Salle Favart, Paris

Excellent performances and stage direction make a good case for an opera that's on the slow side dramatically.

In Basil Twist's staging of Titon et l'Aurore, William Christie shows the breadth of his talent in 18th century French repertoire, conducting an cast which excels in both main and supporting roles.

Voices, orchestra staging: everything in this Ercole Amante is light and magic, to the great delight of the Salle Favart audience.

Hamlet lives! Ambroise Thomas' operatic take on The Bard has a particularly French ending but that doesn't spoil this terrific revival in Paris. 

An oriental sweetmeat from the pen of Henri Rabaud, based on a tale from The Arabian Nights, is revived triumphantly in Paris. 

Palazzetto Bru Zane, spurred on by the zealous advocacy of conductor François-Xavier Roth, has turned to Saint-Saëns' very first opera, Le Timbre d'argent.

Grand succès de l'année 2019, l'opéra de Francesco Filidei et Joël Pommerat est de retour salle Favart avec la même réussite, tant sur scène que dans la fosse.

Après un premier décollage à huis clos au printemps 2021, la féérie d'Offenbach adaptée pour les jeunes pousses de la Maîtrise Populaire de l'Opéra Comique connaît enfin sa première publique.