During the 2014-2015 season, the Opéra Comique will celebrate its 300th anniversary.
Since Jérôme Deschamps is managing director, this theatre has offered a number of typical 19th Century French opera comiques :
- Emmanuel
Chabrier : L’Étoile, in December 2007 ;
- Ferdinand
Hérold : Zampa, in March and December
2008 ;
- Daniel
François Esprit Auber : Fra Diavolo,
in January 2009 ;
- Emmanuel Chabrier : Le
Roi malgré lui, in April 2009 ;
- André Messager : Fortunio
in December 2009 ;
- Hector
Berlioz : Béatrice et Bénédict,
in March 2010 ;
- Ambroise
Thomas : Mignon, in April 2010 ;
- Jules
Massenet : Cendrillon, in March 2011 ;
- Jacques Offenbach : Les
Brigands, in June 2011 ;
- Daniel François Esprit Auber : La muette de Portici, in April 2012 ;
- Reynaldo Hahn : Ciboulette,
in February 2013 ;
- Henri Rabaud : Marouf,
savetier du Caire, in May 2013 ;
- Léo
Delibes : Lakmé, in January 2014 ;
- Charles
Lecoq : Ali-Baba, in May 2014.
Many of
these operas had not been staged in France for years.
Baroque
operas and contemporary works have also been performed :
- Jean-Baptiste Lully : Cadmus
et Hermione
- Henry
Purcell : Dido and Aeneas
- Jean- Baptiste Lully : Atys
- Johann Christian Bach : Amadis de Gaule
- Pier Francesco Cavalli : Egisto
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier : David et Jonathas
- Jean-Philippe Rameau : Platée
- Pascal Dusapin : Roméo
et Juliette
- Peter Eötvös : Lady
Sarashina
- Georges Aperghis : Les Boulingrin
- Oscar
Strasnoy : Cachafaz
- Marco
Stroppa : Re Orso
- George
Benjamin : Written on Skin
For his
last season as managing director, and before closing the theatre for a whole
season (to build an air conditioning system in the hall) Deschamps offers a
season similar to the previous ones :
- Johann Strauss : La
Chauve-souris, in a new French version ;
- André Campra : Les Fêtes
vénitiennes ;
- Philippe Boesmans : Au Monde, the opera that received its first performance last March
in Brussels ;
- Ferdinand Hérold : Le Pré aux Clercs ;
- Reynaldo Hahn : Ciboulette ;
- Xavier Dayer : Les
Contes de la lune vague après la pluie, only 2 months after the world
première in Rouen ;
- Louis Varney : Les
Mousquetaires au couvent.
We have 3 new productions : La Chauve-souris, Les Fêtes
vénitiennes and Le Pré aux Clercs,
2 coproductions : Au Monde and Les Contes de la lune vague après la pluie,
and 2 revivals : Ciboulette and Les Mousquetaires au couvent (from
Lausanne, December 2013).
