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- Fidelio's libretto, based on a comic opera by Bouilly and Gaveaux, met resounding success in Paris in 1798. Drawing inspiration from the Reign of Terror, a period of the French Revolution, this artwork inspired many composers. Beethoven turned it into an ode to justice and made it his philosophical legacy. At the end of a gallant century and in the early days of a society founded on marriage, the marital love that was denied to Beethoven is a the heart of this drama. The composer worked on this opera for ten years, until it triumphed in 1814. Like Mozart, Beethoven had transcended sing-spiel's form and language. More importantly, he had entrusted lyrical art with its true mission: the public. Rarely played in Paris, Fidelio finds an opera auditorium at the Opéra Comique that is very similar to the ones Beethoven knew back in the 1810's. Together with Siobhan Stagg and Michael Spyres, Raphaël Pichon and Cyril Teste have created a performance induced with fiery musical intensity and politics.
- Among the 600 or so compositions of Camille Saint-Saëns, who died on December 16, 1921 in Algiers, the whimsical suite "The Carnival of the Animals" remains his most famous work.
- Mozart's opera, here in a different version from the Glyndebourne Festival 2019. All music and Schikaneder's libretto are of course included. But the plot has been moved to a British hotel at the beginning of the last century. A show with a lot of humor, warmth and charm. The young Norwegian star soprano Caroline Wettergreen is "The best Queen of the Night in 40 years", wrote the Financial Times.
- 2006– Not Rated8.5 (23)TV EpisodeThree acts, book-ended by a Prologue and Epilogue, tell the poet Hoffman's failed loves. The first was just a doll, the second a dying singer, and the third a lady of the evening. That's Hoffman, looking for love in all the wrong places.
- 2006– Not Rated8.0 (17)TV EpisodeIphigenie, banished daughter of Klytemnaestra, is now high priestess to Diana. Two strangers from Greece wash up on shore; when Iphigenie recognizes one as her brother, Orestes, she is powerless to stop his execution. Cue the goddess Diana.
- 2006– 3h 22mNot Rated8.2 (16)TV Episode
- Two Druid priestesses fall for a fickle Roman proconsul, with tragic results.