2024-2025 season's "Pléiades"

This eighteenth century opera ballet was a total show. The 1739 creation celebrated the virtuosity of ballet, songs, ensemble and orchestra with its transforming decor and amorous, rather than mythological, intrigues. Rameau really displayed his genius and won a resounding triumph.

The Opéra-Comique invites Laurence Equilbey and Marie- Ève Signeyrole to seize the opportunity of this « dramatic music summit » – dixit Brahms – to create the tragic setting and dialectic for Joyce El-Khoury’s Médée. How does one approach this femme fatale archetype in the twenty-first century? Laurence Equilbey and Marie-Éve Signeyrole certainly honoured her.

With a single strong plot and striking music, this total show presents today’s audiences with the edifying tragedy dreamt by Voltaire.

Clara Olivares and Chloé Lechat build on the opera form to camp the characters and raise the contemporary issues of this unconventional topic. Resulting from their collaborative writing process, their mesmerising immersive project’stage and music directions bring together three singers, an actress and a narrative orchestra. With their help, the opera genre intends to capture all the nuances of intimate life.

A twenty-first century urban legend claims that one night, some children left their home without telling their parents, in a quest known to them alone. They had brought their own food, costumes, trestles and songs. During their stopovers, they would compel the musical stories of which they were becoming the heroes. La grande affabulation narrates the great musical confabulation of their maiden voyage.

Before putting drama back at the heart of opera, Gluck contributed to the transformation of the choreographic art of his time. With ballet master Angiolini, he embraced the bold project of Calzabigi who, in Vienna, aspired to make dance a comprehensive narrative language.

With the cooperation of the Opéra de Lille and the Palazzetto Bru Zane, Faust finds its original form at the Opéra-Comique where many little-known chapters are revealed. Honouring this romantic and fantastic masterpiece, Louis Langrée, Denis Podalydès and their associates direct a cast led by Julien Dran.