While you're getting a kick out of Chabrier's L'Étoile, CIM Opera Theater will be getting a workout. That is to say, while guests are laughing, smiling, and humming along to the school's zany opera ...

«So many details !» - «tant de détails !». En trois mots, cette jeune violoniste de l'Orchestre révolutionnaire et romantique croisée durant l'entracte exprime son admiration pour la partition qu'elle ...

Maurice Ravel once said he would rather have composed Chabrier's Le Roi Malgré Lui than Wagner's entire Ring Cycle. On the basis of having had the unusual experience of seeing both within the last two ...

Thaddeus Strassberger loves it when he’s given the chance to stage an opera he has never seen by a composer he has never heard of. “It’s great. It’s brand new . . . like a world premiere,” he said.

AS A rule, the British lack the gallic touch needed for French comic opera so it seemed that the Royal Opera could crack the problem by importing a mainly French cast of singers and acclaimed Parisian ...

Penny Gore presents L'Etoile, Emmanuel Chabrier's sparkling opera, in a performance conducted by Sir Mark Elder and directed by Mariame Clément at the Royal Opera House. Chabrier's comic opera ...