La Bohème – In Space! Josi Steinfeld 10/10/2025Claus Guth’s once-controversial, space-set Bohème returns to Paris to a packed, euphoric house. What felt scandalous in 2017 now reads...
Aida Josi Steinfeld 09/10/2025Opéra Bastille — Paris’s second opera house and a 1989 state-of-the-art building with superb acoustics — is literally crumbling. The...
La Distance Thibault Elie 05/08/2025Since taking over as director of the Festival d’Avignon, Tiago Rodrigues has staged one new play per year as part...
Les Incrédules (The Incredulous) Thibault Elie 31/07/2025With Les Incrédules, director Samuel Achache returns to the Festival d’Avignon with his most ambitious project to date: a two-hour...
Le Sommet Thibault Elie 22/07/2025In Le Sommet, Swiss director Christoph Marthaler brings together six eccentric figures in a remote mountain refuge, crafting a surreal,...
BREL Thibault Elie 18/07/2025BREL – Can You Dance to a Legend? Attending a performance at the mythical Carrière de Boulbon, about fifteen kilometers...
Manon Olivia Hurton 31/05/2025The Opéra Bastille is a late postmodern strongbox for storytelling. Behind its brutalist façade of glass and exposed concrete lies...
Re Chicchinella Thibault Elie 14/01/2025The play tells the absurd and surreal story of a king who finds himself with a chicken lodged inside him,...
Banquet Capital Thibault Elie 30/09/2024Set in 1848, a time when France is on the brink of its third revolution after the upheavals of 1789...
La Rondine (The Swallow) Josi Steinfeld 05/08/2024The Gattières Opus Opera Festival in a small hillside village behind Nice has been a well-kept secret for 34 years!...
