Julien Behr

Opéra National de Paris: Ambroise Thomas's Hamlet (2023)

Pelléas et Mélisande - Opéra de Lille (2021)

In a kingdom where day is night and noon chills the blood, a prince suspects his mysterious wife to be in love with his half-brother. But where does Mélisande come from? And what do we really know about the two heroes' silent love? A single opera was all ...

Hamlet : Opéra-Comique (2019)

"To be, or not to be..." You probably know the question, but perhaps not Cyril Teste's answer! A stage director famed for his fascinating fusion of theater and film, he stages the opera Hamlet for the first time in this production starring a brilliant grou ...

Requiem de Mozart (2017)

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 ...

Ciboulette (2013)

Orphée aux Enfers (2009)

Here is an irreverent take on the tragic story of the lovers Orpheus and Eurydice. With his librettists Hector Crémieux and Ludovic Halévy, Jacques Offenbach creates a wonderful array of characters from the heavens who find themselves caught up in domest ...