Most Viewed From Opéra National de Paris

A vengeful beauty foils the plans of the bloodthirsty Hun warrior to conquer Rome.

Genre: Action

Cast: Gerard Butler

Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruggero Raimondi

Jafar Panahi sets out to find a Kurdish young woman with a golden voice that has been forbidden to sing by her family.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jafar Panahi

The ambiguities of Verdi’s theatre are particularly clear in his baritone roles, among which is that of Boccanegra, corsair turned doge of...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ludovic Tézier

An opera ballet that doesn't exist. A ghost-like piece, played in Opera Bastille and danced at Opera Garnier. An almost mystical link between both...

Genre: Music

Cast: Reda Kateb

Inspired by Pushkin's masterpiece of Russian literature, Tchaikovsky’s opera provides a sublime portrait – both ironic and sympathetic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Netrebko

In Benoît Jacquot’s production, Manet’s Olympia dominates the stage of the Opéra Bastille. In 1863, the painting caused a...

Genre: Music

Cast: Ermonela Jaho

Jean-Gabriel Périot sketches the portrait of a group of women for whom music is a means of resistance and of escaping isolation.

Genre: Documentary

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Live performance by the Bolshoi Theatre at the Palais Garnier, Opéra National de Paris, 2008.

Genre: Music

Cast: Mariusz Kwiecien

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Brigitte Bardot

In the ethereal afterlife, there is no time or space. The shades, freed from their earthly cares, celebrate the greatness of the Goddess of Truth....

Genre: Music

Cast: Stéphane Degout

This adaptation of three tales by E.T.A. Hoffmann, with a sprinkling of Goethe’s Faust, portrays the German poet as both narrator and hero...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ramón Vargas

Les Indes Galantes (The amorous indies), is an opera-ballet created by Jean Philippe Rameau in 1735. He was inspired for one of the dance by tribal...

Genre: Documentary

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"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's second opera to great heights. Andrei Serban's...

Genre: Music

Cast: Danielle de Niese

Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Andreas Schager

Two bored extras from the ‘Tristan and Isolde’ opera roam the underground of the Garnier Palace.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Judith Chemla

Once the show is over at Bastille Opera's 6th basement, Professor Turrel and his team open their shop. The service offers the opportunity for couples...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Thibaut Évrard

Abbado wholly vindicates Verdi’s intentions through his feeling for the shape of a whole scene, for the inherent subtleties of Verdi’s...

Genre: Music

Cast: Piero Cappuccilli

Recording of a performance by Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris of the ballet on Music for 18 Musicians by Steve Reich, choreographed by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Valentine Colasante

Sergei Prokofiev's setting of the fairy tale "Cinderella" premiered at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater in 1945. In 1986, Rudolf Nureyev, then ballet...

Genre: Music

Cast: Valentine Colasante