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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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" ...

Last week, in Manhattan, the Little Opera of America, Inc., presented an Opera Comique, Mandragola. Those who attended were familiar with the Little Opera’s contention that the U. S. public will pay ...

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 ...