Jean-Sébastien Bou

On Purge Bébé! - La Monnaie / De Munt (2022)

A dive into the delirious daily life of Mr. Follavoine, his wife and Toto, their tyrannical son who suffers from constipation. ...

Fantasio (2022)

Mozart: Don Giovanni (2016)

Don Giovanni prides itself in being a dramma giocoso. Not an easy expression to translate, given how starkly contradictory the terms would appear to be. But dig below the surface and you are plunged into a delightful swirl of ambiguities. Nothing here is s ...

Claude - Thierry Escaich (2013)

French contemporary composer Thierry Escaich and French essayist, politician, and now librettist Robert Badinter transform Victor Hugo's short story Claude Gueux into an operatic call for human dignity in the 21st century. ...

La vie parisienne (2007)

Live performance from Opéra National de Lyon. ...

Carmen (2007)

Jonas Kaufmann and Anna Caterina Antonacci bring rare erotic intensity to the drama of Don José and Carmen in this darkly passionate reading of one of the most popular operas. Kaufmann uses his burnished tenor and smouldering good looks to portray the man ...