Stéphane Degout

Royal Opera House: The Marriage of Figaro (2024)

Servants Figaro and Susanna are filled with excitement on their wedding day, but there's a hitch: their employer, the Count Almaviva, has dishonourable intentions of his own towards the bride-to-be. With more twists than a page boy's stockings, the story ...

Royal Opera House: Faust (2020)

Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust calls upon Satan to help him. The devil Méphistophélès appears and strikes a bargain with the philosopher: he will give him youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite, if Faust hands over his soul. ...

Così fan tutte - ROH (2020)

Containing some of the most beautiful arias and attractive ensembles in all opera, Così fan tutte is packed with both pathos and humour. Mozart and Da Ponte's witty, compassionate examination of young love has ensured its lasting popularity. Jonathan Mil ...

Le Nozze di Figaro (2019)

In this new "Marriage of Figaro", Jérémie Rhorer revisits this composer and US film director James Gray makes his first foray into opera. This opera is recorded for broadcast by Louise Narboni. ...

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 ...

Faust | ROH | (2019)

Disillusioned with life, the aged philosopher Faust calls upon Satan to help him. The devil Méphistophélès appears and strikes a bargain with the philosopher: he will give him youth and the love of the beautiful Marguerite, if Faust hands over his soul. ...

Benjamin: Lessons in Love and Violence (2018)

Opera based on the story of Edward II and Piers Gaveston. Music by George Benjamin, libretto by Martin Crimp. BBC broadcast of the 2018 premiere at the Royal Opera House, the composer conducting, prefaced by commentary and interviews. ...

Berlioz: Les Troyens (2017)

This release from Erato consists of highlights from the live concert of April 15, 2017 in the city of Strasbourg in eastern France. A magnificent cast of singers, predominantly Francophone, assembled under the baton of John Nelson, an acknowledged master o ...

Thomas: Hamlet (2016)

The famous story of Hamlet and Ophelia is played out between the opposite poles of real and feigned madness, love and avenge. After the murder of his father, Hamlet opposes the marriage of his mother and his uncle, at the expense of his beloved and himself ...

Mozart: Le Nozze Di Figaro (Ópera Nacional Holandesa) (2016)

Pelléas et Mélisande - Aix-en-Provence (2016)

Hippolyte and Aricie (Paris National Opera) (2014)

Topi Lehtipuu and Anne-Catherine Gillet star in the 2012 Opera National de Paris production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's opera Hippolyte et Aricie. Also starring Sarah Connolly and Stephane Degout. ...

Rameau Hippolyte et Aricie (2014)

Emmanuelle Haïm has established herself as one of the world's leading performers, conductors and interpreters of Baroque repertoire, not only with Le Concert d'Astrée, the ensemble she founded in 2000, but with several of the world's greatest orchestras. ...

Taking Off (2013)

Romain, a handsome young man in his thirties, only thinks about his work and never reveals his emotions. He can't manage to "flirt" with girls. His older brother Luc, who has become a screenwriter, is homosexual and never stops putting his brother down. Ho ...

Debussy: Pelléas et Mélisande (2012)

Debussy's masterpiece, for the first time conducted by the Paris Opera's music director Philippe Jordan, in the fairy staging by Robert Wilson. When Prince Golaud, grandson of King of Allemonde, meets the beautiful Mélisande, he knows nothing about her. T ...

Le comte Ory (2011)

Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" tells the story of a libidinous and cunning nobleman who disguises himself first as a hermit and then as a nun in order to gain access to the virtuous Countess Adele, whose brother is away at the Crusades. The 2011 Met production ...

Così fan tutte (2005)

Live performance from the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence, 23 July 2005. ...