Thomas Jolly's production was the highlight of the end of the 22/23 season at the Paris Opera. The lovers of Verona are back in the cinemas on 12 October.
This programme of 9 titles, including 5 live events, starts on 12 October with Gounod's Roméo et Juliette and ends on 23 May with Massenet's Don Quichotte.
Who better than Thomas Jolly, one of the most inventive directors of his generation, reputed for his audacious re-readings of Shakespeare, appointed as the artistic director of the ceremonies of the Olympic Games Paris 2024 to celebrate this hymn to youth? Following his Eliogabalo by Cavalli in 2016, he signs his second collaboration with the Paris Opera with a cast of exceptionnal vocalists: notably Elsa Dreisig (Juliette), Benjamin Bernheim(Roméo), Lea Desandre (Séphano).
The Paris Opera presents an evening dedicated to the choreographer who died fifteen years ago composed of three works: The Firebird, Songs of a Wayfarer and Boléro.
Live in cinemas on Thursday 25 May from 7.45pm.
Not performed at the Paris Opera since 1938, Hamlet returns to the Paris Opera in a new stage production by Krzysztof Warlikowski.
Live in cinemas Thursday 30 March at 7.15pm.
Who cares? is a suite of dances to songs by George Gershwin and Ballet Impérial created in 1941 to Tchaikovsky’s Second Piano Concerto is a tribute to the grandeur of Imperial Russia.
The famed Roman opera singer Floria Tosca is in a loving relationship with the painter Mario Cavaradossi. But when Cavaradossi helps out a political refugee, however, things take a turn for the worse as the sadistic police chief Scarpia takes Cavaradossi prisoner in the hope of uncovering the fugitive's whereabouts... For his staging of Tosca, Barrie Kosky drew inspiration from film and in particular by the genre of film noir.
Thankful to Jacques Offenbach, Paris is in celebration! One of its greatest successes presented in a complete original version by the Centre de Musique Romantique Française is coming to cinemas on December 8.
In 1905 Richard Strauss produced the work that was to ensure his status as Wagner’s successor in the history of German opera. Entrusted to stage director Lydia Steier, the production will be broadcast live in cinemas Thursday 27 October at 7:15pm.
