The Paris Opera has cancelled the new production of The Queen of Spades which was planned in June. This opera won't be broadcast live the 3rd of June, neither screened in cinemas afterwards.
The audiovisual recording of Faust was maintained. The production by Tobias Kratzer will coming soon in several cinemas in Russia, Norway and Australia.
The new production of Aida has been filmed at the Opéra Bastille without any audience and will be screened soon in several territories: Russia, Norway, Australia
A celebration of music filmed at the Teatro alla Scala – thanks in particular to the superb voice of Russian soprano Anna Netrebko, as a passionate Tosca.
Cecilia Bartoli’s superb performance in Gioachino Rossini’s The Italian Girl in Algiers filmed at Salzburg Festival was a highlight among the Rossini celebrations on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death.
The duo formed for La Traviata is back in a new production of the opera by Jules Massenet. The stage director Vincent Huguet casts the work’s customary taffeta aside in order to bring out its violence to the full.
Placed under the aegis of a multitude of talents: Théophile Gautier - co-author of the libretto -, Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot - who sign the choreography -, Alexandre Benois - whose designs inspired the sets and costumes -, Patrice Bart and Eugène Polyakov - to whom we owe the adaptation of the ballet for the Paris Opera, Giselle represents the apogee of the new romantic aesthetic that was very much in vogue in the intellectual and artistic circles of the early 19th century.
Live in cinemas Thursday 6 Feb. 7:15pm
