François Roussillon

Georg Friedrich Handel: Giulio Cesare At the Dutch National Opera (2024)

In Amsterdam, conductor Emmanuelle Haïm and director Calixto Bieito take on Handel's famous Giulio Cesare. ...

Not Now, Darling (2023)

In a French fur salon, a businessman disastrously attempts to seduce a stripper with a mink coat, leading to a chaotic mix-up involving mistaken identities, a jealous husband, and a frantic, half-dressed chase. ...

Alban Berg: Wozzeck - Festival d'Aix-en-Provence 2023 (2023)

Georges Bizet: Carmen - Opéra Comique, Paris (2023)

The opera "Carmen" caused a scandal at its premiere at the Opéra Comique in Paris. Now the feisty Carmen returns to where it all began. Andreas Homoki sets his new production at the Opéra Comique in several eras. Mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez shines in th ...

La Vie parisienne (2022)

La Vie parisienne (Parisian life) is an opéra bouffe, or operetta, composed by Jacques Offenbach in 1866, with a libretto by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy. This work was Offenbach's first full-length piece to portray contemporary Parisian life, unlike ...

Lakmé (2022)

Hippolyte et Aricie (2022)

Fidelio (2021)

Beethoven's only opera came to the stage of the Opéra Comique in Paris in 2021 in a sensational production. The work of conductor Raphaël Pichon and director Cyril Teste reveals their appreciation for a work that is rarely performed in France. At the cen ...

Mademoiselle Else (2021)

Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel (2021)

Pushkin folk tale as comedic opera whose sultry elements expand an Oriental influence. Korsakov portrays the story of Tsar Nicholas II, punished for his cowardice and despotism, using satire to condemn Russia's autocratic ruler. ...

Hippolyte et Aricie (2020)

In October 1733, the audience at the Académie Royale de Musique witnessed the birth of a revolutionary work: Hippolyte et Aricie. With its inventiveness and musical richness, Rameau's opera marks a break in the history of French music. A similarly revolut ...

Dvořák: Rusalka (2020)

Praised by critics as "magnificent", "breathtakingly theatrical" and full of "zestful imagination", Melly Still's "spine-tingling" Rusalka is a Glyndebourne classic – a magical contemporary reimagining of a much-loved fairy tale. Light and darkness, beau ...

L'Odyssée Offenbach (2019)

Fortunio (2019)

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (Théâtre Royal de La Monnaie) (2019)

Cavalli: Hercules in Love (2019)

Francesco Cavalli, a natural successor to Monteverdi, was the most famous and influential Italian opera composer during the mid-17th century. Cardinal Mazarin, chief minister to the king, commissioned Cavalli to create a Parisian spectacle to celebrate the ...

Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, 2017) (2019)

This is Laurent Pelly's Théâtre des Champs-Élysées staging of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, with a cast featuring Florian Sempey as Figaro, Catherine Trottmann as Rosina, and Michele Angelini as Il Conte Almaviva. Jérémie Rhorer conducts Le Cer ...

Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (2019)

Composed in the 1930s by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, this is a mordant satire on capitalism and the inexorable industrialization of a society in which the ultimate crime is not having money ...

Chabrier: The Star (2019)

L'Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary Henri Duparc praised him specifically for creating a French comic genre, both funny and musical – described as something of a French Die Meistersinger. T ...

Gluck - Orphée et Eurydice (2018)

Amour, the messenger of the gods, tells Orpheus that he may descend to the underworld and return with Eurydice. His singing has the power to appease the Furies and animate the blessed Shadows. Yet, his voice cannot reassure Eurydice who despairs of the fei ...

Britten Death in Venice (2018)

Britten's last opera, in two acts, presented by Teatro Real. ...

Verdi: Don Carlo (2018)

Elizabeth of Valois is promised in marriage to Don Carlos of Spain, as part of a peace treaty between the two kingdoms. They meet and fall in love – but no sooner have they declared their love than news comes that the terms of the treaty have changed: El ...

Handel: Agrippina (2018)

Opera by George Frideric Handel filmed on March 29, 2016 at the Theater in Vienna, Austria. ...

Glyndebourne: Hamlet (2018)

Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. The world premiere recording of Brett Deans new opera based on Shakespeares best-known tragedy: To be, or not to be. This is Hamlets dilemma, and the essence ...

Berg: Wozzeck (2018)

Based on real events and drawing on Georg Büchner's revolutionary play, Alban Berg's Wozzeck turns a grimly tragic narrative of violence and murder into one of the most powerful and original operas of the 20th century. Berg's uncompromising portrayal of b ...

Puccini: La Bohème (2017)

No one better described the half-starved, struggling artists than Murger in his Scènes de la Vie de Bohème: artists ready to burn a manuscript to try to keep warm yet,in an era of triumphant bourgeois materialism, dreaming of another existence. Taking up ...

Béatrice et Bénédict (2017)

Berlioz's whimsical and nostalgic take on Shakespeare's great comedy Much Ado About Nothing graces the stage of Glyndebourne in Laurent Pelly's astute 2016 production. Italian maestro Antonello Manacorda leads the London Philharmonic in Berlioz's brilliant ...

Saul (2016)

Glyndebourne's Saul stole the summer and had critics raving. The Guardian (****) applauded virtuoso stagecraft from director Barrie Kosky in his debut production there, calling the show a theatrical and musical feast of energetic choruses, surreal choreogr ...

Donizetti: Poliuto (2015)

Glyndebourne has brought to light a long-overlooked winner in Donizetti's Poliuto, delivering a superb musical performance (The Telegraph) offering lucent accounts of the principal roles and an incandescent London Philharmonic Orchestra, under Enrique Mazz ...

Mozart: Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail (2015)

In the 18th century, in the palace of Pasha Selim, in a purely imaginary Turkey. Belmonte, a young Spanish nobleman, is searching for his fiancée, Constance, who has been captured by pirates and sold to Pasha Selim. Blonde, Constance's English maid, and h ...

Mozart: Die Entführung aus dem Serail (2015)

In the 18th century, in the palace of Pasha Selim, in a purely imaginary Turkey. Belmonte, a young Spanish nobleman, is searching for his fiancée, Constance, who has been captured by pirates and sold to Pasha Selim. Blonde, Constance's English maid, and h ...

Verdi: La traviata (2015)

Alfredo, a young man from the provinces, falls in love with Violetta, the stylish toast of Paris. But she's not the marrying kind – at least not until now. However, their dreams are threatened by both a merciless society that condemns Violetta's racy pas ...

Un amour qui ne finit pas (2015)

The Children of Scaramouche (2014)

Dive into a danced dream in this film by François Roussillon! Inspired by José Martinez's three-act ballet Les enfants de Scaramouche (a choreography on music by Darius Milhaud that premiered in 2010), this 2014 filmed adaptation highlights the incredibl ...

Ciboulette (2013)

The Marriage of Figaro (2012)

Rosina from *The Barber of Seville* is now Countess Almaviva, his wife. However, he is far from being a paragon of virtue. Among others, he is pursuing his wife's maid, Susanna—who is to marry Figaro, now in the Count's service—and his gardener's daugh ...

Les Troyens (2012)

After the destruction of Troy, the Trojan warrior Énée sets out on a journey to found a new dynasty. He meets Didon, Queen of Carthage, and falls in love. But will Énée's love for Didon prove stronger than his sense of duty? LES TROYENS ('The Trojans') ...

La Bayadère (2012)

Live recording at Opéra-Bastille in 2012. ...

Lulu (2011)

Live performance of Alban Berg's opera at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona. Inspired by "Pandora's Box" by Frank Wedekind, Lulu describes the social ascent and the demise of a deadly woman, driven by men to behave in murder, to her own. dead. ...

Lully : Armide (2011)

A production of Lully's 1686 tragédie lyrique masterpiece directed by William Christie at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées from 2008. ...

Lully: Atys (2011)

William Christie conducts Atys by Lully at the Opéra Comique ...

Britten: Billy Budd (2011)

Captain Vere, an old man, is haunted by a moment in his life when he was tested and found wanting. Based on Herman Melville's novella of naval life in the late 18th Century, Benjamin Britten's 'Billy Budd' is a gripping reflection on good and evil, innoce ...

Jules César (2011)

Live performance 10 February 2011 at the Palais Garnier. Emmanuelle Haïm conducting Le Concert d'Astrée and les Choeurs de l'Opéra national de Paris. Directed for stage by Laurent Pelly. ...

The Rake's Progress (2011)

The devil is hard at work in Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress! The three-act opera was premiered at Venice's La Fenice in 1951 and is whimsically staged and performed in this production from the 2010 Glyndebourne opera festival. ...

Mireille (2010)

In 2009, Frédéric Mistral's tale of love and loss in Provence came to the Opéra de Paris with a new production of Gounod's 1864 opera Mireille. Nicolas Joel's naturalistic staging frames the accomplished performances of Albanian soprano Inva Mula as Mir ...

Adriana Lecouvreur (2010)

Starring Angela Gheorghiu as the celebrated French actress Adriana Lecouvreur and Jonas Kaufmann as her lover Maurizio, Count of Saxony, Cilea s verismo drama explores celebrity, romance, jealousy, and death. The trio of sublime voices is completed by Russ ...

Bizet: Carmen (2010)

About the Director: John Eliot Gardiner is one of the most versatile conductors of our time. Acknowledged as a key figure in the early music revival, he is the founder and artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir, the English Baroque Soloists and the Orc ...

Falstaff (2009)

Live from Glyndebourne 2009 ...

Les Enfants du Paradis (2008)

The choreographer brings the Paris of yesteryear back to life: the city of the Boulevard du Crime from the first half of the 19th century, with its artists, theaters, and cabarets. In a staging reminiscent of a movie set, the mime Baptiste bathes in his me ...

L'incoronazione di Poppea (2008)

An early baroque masterpiece, Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea was inspired by The Annals by Tacitus and celebrates the love of the emperor Nero and the courtesan Poppea. Filmed at the 2008 Glyndebourne Festival, Robert Carsen's production brings tog ...

La vie parisienne (2007)

Live performance from Opéra National de Lyon. ...

Verdi: Il Trovatore (2007)

A gigantic blood-red monster, made of steel and flames, floating on the still waters of Lake Constance – this is Robert Carsen's unconventional vision of the setting of Verdi's masterpiece Il Trovatore for the 60th anniversary of the Bregenz Festival. T ...

Natalie Dessay & Rolando Villazón - Massenet: Manon (2007)

Natalie Dessay and Rolando Villazón bring Jules Massenet's classic opera to the stage in this dazzling production. In 18th-century France, Manon (Dessay) faces life as a nun, despite catching the eye of many men. When she meets the handsome but penniless ...

Adolphe Adam: Giselle ou les Wilis (2007)

Giselle, the Romantic ballet par excellence! Relive the story of a young country girl's innocent love for the Duke Albrecht. When she learns that he is already engaged to marry a princess, Giselle suffers violent hallucinations and then dies. In vengeance, ...

Pyotr Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (2005)

Prince Siegfried is celebrating his coming of age. The Queen Mother informs him that, the following day, during the grand ball held to mark his birthday, he must choose a future wife. Displeased at not being able to choose her out of love, he goes into the ...

Les Paladins (2005)

Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work, blending reality and the surreal on several levels. ...

La Grande-Duchesse de Gérolstein (2004)

Live performance at the Théâtre du Châtelet in December 2004. Marc Minkowski conducting Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble. Stage direction by Laurent Pelly. ...

La Sylphide (2004)

La Sylphide refers to the Paris Opéra Ballet production choreographed by Pierre Lacotte. This acclaimed performance features Etoiles Aurélie Dupont and Mathieu Ganio and was recorded live at the Palais Garnier in July 2004. ...

Les Contes d'Hoffmann (2003)

Live performance from the Opéra National de Paris, 2003. ...

Rusalka (2002)

Renee Fleming stars in Dvorak's three-act opera based on two fairy-tales which tells the story of a water-nymph called Rusalka (Fleming), who wishes she was human, after falling in love with a mortal. ...

War and Peace (2000)

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army. ...

Clavigo (1999)

Inspired by Goethe's early romantic play Clavigo, Roland Petit's ballet recounts the agonies of a weak-willed lover torn between the contradictory promptings of his heart and his evil spirit, which urges him to serve his own interests and forsake true love ...

Gluck - Orphée et Eurydice (2018)

Amour, the messenger of the gods, tells Orpheus that he may descend to the underworld and return with Eurydice. His singing has the power to appease the Furies and animate the blessed Shadows. Yet, his voice cannot reassure Eurydice who despairs of the fei ...