Hector Berlioz, probably France’s greatest composer, died 150 years ago yesterday. Here, in honour of his sesquicentenary, are some of his finest works:
The Opéra de Paris, meanwhile, has released its 2019/20 season:
- Rameau
- Les Indes galantes [FRENCH]
- Mozart
- Don Giovanni
- Così fan tutte
- Rossini
- Barber of Seville
- Bellini
- Il pirata
- I puritani
- Verdi
- Rigoletto
- La Traviata
- Don Carlo
- Wagner
- Das Rheingold
- Die Walküre
- Siegfried
- Götterdämmerung
- Offenbach
- Les contes d’Hoffmann [FRENCH]
- Mussorgsky
- Boris Godunov
- Borodin
- Prince Igor
- Massenet
- Manon [FRENCH]
- Puccini
- La Bohème
- Madama Butterfly
- Cilea
- Adriana Lecouvreur
- Reimann
- Lear
- Boesmans
- Yvonne princesse de Bourgogne [FRENCH]
Plenty of warhorses, few French composers (no Berlioz), and Don Carlos in Italian.
Opéra Comique has yet to reveal next year’s line-up; their 2018/19 season, though, includes such truly French works as Auber’s Domino noir; Rabaud’s Mârouf, savetier de Caire; Gounod’s Nonne sanglante; Thomas’ Hamlet; Rameau; and Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice. We can but hope.
And good news:
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