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 ...

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 ...

The Beijing Music Festival announced its three-year artistic collaboration with the Opéra Comique based in Paris from 2020 to 2022. Three operas co-produced by the two parties, including two classic ...

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 ...

It was momentous news. But it wasn’t really a surprise. Last week, Louis Langrée, music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, announced that French President Emmanuel Macron had appointed him ...

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 ...

There’s not really much point in pondering too long on what makes Carmen one of the most popular operas ever written. First performed in 1875, Bizet’s opera has brilliant tunes that sing themselves in ...

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 ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Museum piece or inspired revival? When the Opéra Comique staged Lully’s fourth opera in January 1987, the event ...