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Michael Spyres’s Florestan is the breakout performance in Cyril Teste’s new Fidelio for Paris’s Opéra Comique

04/12/202105/10/2021 by Jim Pritchard

France Beethoven, Fidelio: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Ensemble Pygmalion / Raphaël Pichon (conductor). Performed by Opéra Comique on 1.10.2020 at the Salle Favart, Paris, and livestreamed (directed by François Roussillon) on ARTE Concert (available until 30.9.2022). (JPr)

Linard Vrielink (Jaquino), Mari Eriksmoen (Marzelline) and Siobhan Stagg (Leonore/Fidelio) (c) Stefan Brion

Beethoven of the very top rank from Sunwook Kim and Laurence Equilbey’s Insula Orchestra

04/12/202102/10/2021 by Colin Clarke

France Beethoven: Sunwook Kim (piano), Insula Orchestra / Laurence Equilbey (conductor). La Seine Musicale, Paris, France, 29.9.2021 (CC)

Laurence Equilbey conducts Sunwook Kim (piano) and the Insula orchestra © Julien Benhamou

Paris Opera’s ‘Dudamel era’ begins and time will tell how his relationship with the ‘City of Love’ will develop

04/12/202123/09/2021 by Jim Pritchard

France Gustavo Dudamel’s Concert Inaugural: Soloists, Chorus (chorusmaster: Ching-Lien Wu) and Maîtrise des Hauts de Seine (Children’s Choir of the Opéra national de Paris, director: Gaël Darchen), Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris / Gustavo Dudamel (conductor). Filmed (directed by François-René Martin) at the Palais Garnier, Paris, 22.9.2021. (JPr)

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Clémentine Margaine (mezzo-soprano) and the Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris

Tobias Kratzer’s cinéma verité style Faust for Paris Opera is an unmissable lockdown triumph

31/05/202118/04/2021 by Jim Pritchard

France Gounod, Faust: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opéra national de Paris / Lorenzo Viotti (conductor). Recorded (directed by Julien Condemine) at the Opéra Bastille, Paris, and broadcast on 26.3.2021. (JPr)

Tobias Kratzer’s *Faust* Act III (c) M. Rittershaus/Paris Opera

The Paris Opera announces the appointment of Gustavo Dudamel as its new Music Director

31/05/202117/04/2021 by Rick Perdian

Gustavo Dudamel is the new Music Director of the Paris Opera from August 2021

L’Opéra national de Paris and its General Manager Alexander Neef have announced the appointment of Gustavo Dudamel as Music Director for six seasons commencing 1 August 2021.

As Radvanovsky hits new heights in Paris, Aida is not the museum piece Lotte de Beer thinks it is

12/05/202121/02/2021 by Jim Pritchard

France Verdi, Aida: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of Opéra national de Paris / Michele Mariotti (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Francois-René Martin) from Opéra Bastille, Paris, 18.2.2021. (JPr)

Jonas Kaufmann (Radamès) & Dmitry Belosselskiy (Ramfis) (c) Vincent Pontet

Bon spectacle! Paris Opera Ballet’s Opening Gala 2021 at Palais Garnier is exactly that

13/03/202102/02/2021 by John O'Dwyer

France Paris Opera Ballet’s Opening Gala: Etoiles, Premier Dancers, Corps de Ballet and the Paris Opera Ballet School’s students, The Paris Opera Orchestra / Vello Pähn (conductor). Livestreamed (directed by Floris Bernard and Jean-Luc Antoine) from the Palais Garnier, Paris, on 30.1.2021. (JO’D)

*Défilé du Ballet* at Paris Opera Ballet’s *Opening Gala* (c) Julien Benhamou

Robert Carsen’s funny and not-too-serious Die Zauberflöte is performed in Paris during lockdown

17/02/202131/01/2021 by Jim Pritchard

France Mozart, Die Zauberflöte (La Flûte enchantée, The Magic Flute): Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Opéra national de Paris / Cornelius Meister (conductor). Performed at – and livestreamed (directed by Jérémie Cuvillier) – from Opéra Bastille, Paris, on 22.1.2021. (JPr)

Robert Carsen’s *Die Zauberflöte* final scene

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