Review: SINGIN' IN THE RAIN at Le Théâtre Du Lido
Robert Carsen turns the Lido’s cabaret heritage into a theatrical advantage, creating the most convincing production yet of its musical-theatre era.…
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Review: JOHN & JEN at La Grange at Bruxellons!
Tucked into La Grange's intimate corner of Bruxellons, Andrew Lippa's near-sung-through two-hander proves a musical can carry real psychological weight.…
Review: A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal
A brilliantly cast, beautifully judged French production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, where British manners, French theatrical tradition and comic murder collide at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal.…
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents LE PAS DU MONDE By Collectif XY
Some festivals go out with a whimper. Once the excitement of the opening production in the Cour d'Honneur has passed, the remaining artists often present more modest, less foregrounded projects. There are concerts, readings, and other events, and it remains a vibrant hub of activity, but it is never…
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents MUETTE By Boris Charmatz
Boris Charmatz dances with discomfort. His work Muette, now in performance at the Festival d'Avignon's La Chartreuse, offers no easy viewing. Earthy movement, prolonged silence, and nudity combine in an unsettling yet riveting exploration of the body. Charmatz seeks to dance the interior self, a sel…
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents CASTING LEAR By Andrea Jiménez
What better way to close out the Festival d'Avignon than with a love letter to the theatre? At the conclusion of Casting Lear, now performing at the Opéra Grand Avignon as part of the Festival, creator and performer André Jiménez makes an impassioned case for the art form. …
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents UN PROCÈS By Christiane Jatahy and Wagner Moura
In Christiane Jatahy and Wagner Moura's Un Procès Après l'Ennemi du Peuple, now performing at the Festival d'Avignon's Gymnase du Lycée Aubanel, Thomas Stockmann finally gets his day in court. Reimagining the events of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People in contemporary Brazil, the production transfor…
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents NEIGE, NEIGE, NEIGE By Lee Jaram
With its generous public funding for culture, France's Festival d'Avignon can produce theatrical spectacles on an extraordinary scale. Its directors regularly push the formal limits of the art form with enormous casts, technological innovation, and elaborate stagecraft. …
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents BUNKER By Marion Siéfert et Matthieu Bareyre
In his podcast, political commentator Ezra Klein has examined a curious conundrum within the modern elite: the pursuit of extraordinary qualities divorced from their original purpose. Looksmaxers have become sterile in their pursuit of superhuman beauty. …
REVIEW: The Festival d'Avignon Presents THE LAST HAMLET By Ben Duke
In a BBC interview, famed director Katie Mitchell calls for fewer productions of Hamlet. She is tired of attending plays about “misogynistic, angry, depressed men.” I respect any artist defining the boundaries of what interests them. …
Past Shows
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Così fan tutte
Thus do they all or The School for Lovers. When Lorenzo da Ponte is the teacher, the lesson is harsh and cruel, even if Mozart cannot resist tempering the implacable demonstration with musical grace. Before the cynical gaze of a pair of meddling manipulators, two brothers and...
Post-romanticism and modernity
Franz Schreker Der Wind Erwin Schulhoff Concertino Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel, op. 28 Hanns Eisler 14 ways to describe rain, op. 70 Leoš Janácek Concertino
La Dame aux Camélias
Franz Liszt confessed that he was unable to think of Marie Duplessis, the muse of Alexandre Dumas who inspired his Dame aux camélias, without shedding a tear. Giuseppe Verdi gave her the name of Violetta Valéry and made the Traviata—or fallen woman—one of the most touching and...
Lucia di Lammermoor
In Paris in 1835, Donizetti could not hope to compete against the wave of enthusiasm for I Puritani by his rival Bellini. His Marino Faliero, inspired by Byron's drama of the same name, and with the same singers as I Puritani, namely Giovanni Battista Rubini and Giula Grisi...
Alceste
Simplicity, truth and naturalness: these, according to Gluck, are the eternal attributes of beauty and the ultimate goal to which he aspired. "Alceste must not merely please us now while she is still a novelty. She must be timeless. I maintain that it will still delight in two...
Vec Makropulos
"Who would want to live for eternity?" asks Emilia Marty as she is about to die, brandishing the formula for the elixir that has allowed her to live for 337 years ... For his penultimate opera, Janá?ek drew upon the literary works of Karel ?apek, a pioneer of science fiction...
La Sylphide
Presented by Monica Loughman Ballet with principle dancers of the Mariinksky Theatre and San Jose Ballet. Artistic Director Monica Loughman is bringing two of the biggest names in ballet today, Anton Korsakov and Evgenia Obrastzova, for the roles of James and Sylph. With...
Signes
The origins of this work lie in artist Olivier Debré’s desire to translate into a series of paintings the feeling elicited in him by a smile, the first of the ‘signs’. Inspired by these flamboyant landscape paintings depicting various parts of the world in terms of sensibilities...
MESSIAEN / Mozart / Nielsen
Olivier Messiaen Un sourire Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto n° 20 in D minor, K. 466 Carl Nielsen Symphony n° 4 The Inextinguishable, op. 29
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RADIO LIVE : VIVANTES TH DU ROND POINT-SALLE RENAUD BARRAULT (5/28-5/30) |
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SO CULTE ! - SO CULTE ! NOS ANNEES 90 BOBINO (2/26-4/25) |
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RADIO LIVE : NOS VIES A VENIR TH DU ROND POINT-SALLE RENAUD BARRAULT (5/29-5/30) |
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BERNARD WERBER CASINO PARTOUCHE DE HYERES LES PALMIERS (10/16-10/16) |
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UNE HISTOIRE DE FRANCE RADIANT - BELLEVUE (11/27-11/27) |
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LE TEMPS DE VIVRE TH DU ROND POINT - SALLE ROLAND TOPOR (6/09-6/13) |
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DIRTY DANCING - LE TRIBUTE - DIRTY DANCING THEATRE SEBASTOPOL (4/18-4/18) |
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SIMON NOENS - SIMON NOENS DERNIERES DATES AVANT L OLYMPIA THEATRE DAUDET (5/21-5/21) |
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AILLEURS STUDIO DES CHAMPS-ELYSEES (9/30-12/30) |
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COEUR DE BRETAGNE LE LAPS - PARC DES EXPOSITIONS (11/21-11/21) |
