Appointed general director of the Théâtre National de l'Opéra-Comique in October 2021 by French President Emmanuel Macron, Louis Langrée, 62, launched his first season on Thursday, March 30. The ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Reconstructions of 19th-century ballets often involve a dose of artistic pastiche, but few stagings have taken the ...

The premiere of Meyerbeer's opera Robert le Diable was one of the most significant musical events of the 1830s. Ever since its appearance, it has been known that the work was based on an opéra comique ...

The Opéra Comique in Paris turns 300 this year and leading lights of opera and theatre have been paying tribute to this much-loved venue. One of Paris’s oldest dramatic and musical institutions, it is ...

“We are dancing on a volcano,” the Comte de Salvandy said to the Duc d’Orléans, in May, 1830, at a grand ball at the Palais-Royal, during the final weeks of the Bourbon monarchy. The phrase has ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Arts news every morning. You have to hand it to Ambroise Thomas’s librettists Barbier and Carré: they never ducked an opportunity to ...

Marc Mauillon (remarkably, his first musical) makes for a slightly older, but nonetheless believable, Seymour, and Judith Fa is vocally impressive as Audrey, especially in "Somewhere That's Green" ...

The Opéra-Comique in Paris is a bit like home to William Christie. The American conductor has directed 13 productions there since the historic 1987 exhumation of Jean-Baptiste Lully's lyrical tragedy ...

Brilliant and intriguing, but on the whole unnecessary deconstruction of Bizet’s hugely popular opera With Bizet’s Carmen having played 2,906 performances in Paris’ Théâtre National de l’Opéra-Comique ...

Louis Langrée is gushing with enthusiasm as he talks about this weekend’s Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra presentation of Ambroise Thomas’ “Hamlet.” That’s hardly a surprise. Langrée, the CSO’s music ...

Back on the stage of the Opéra Comique in Paris, is “Ciboulette”, an operetta Reynaldo Hahn composed in 1923. Intended as a nostalgic homage to Back on the stage of the Opéra Comique in Paris, is ...