Opéra Paris

Pierre Audi's now-famous Tosca has returned to the Opéra Bastille in Paris with its enormous cross flying above the stage—there's no doubt that this cross owes much to Dalí and his Corpus Hypercubus at the Met Museum. It's not a production that I find particularly brilliant, although, for example, its Te Deum is visually extraordinary. However, Tosca's ending, without her leaping from Castel Sant'Angelo—something that it's more practical for the soprano in Audi's production—

On Saturday, the Opéra Garnier in Paris premiered the production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro done by Netia Jones in 2022, with a new cast. Da Ponte's celebrated libretto, based on Beaumarchais's work and a key embryo of the French revolutionary movement, returned to Paris in a stage interpretation by Netia Jones that attempts to expose the power dynamics surrounding an opera house, setting the action backstage at the Opéra Garnier itself. The idea is bril