Je crois entendre encore

Do you mix up Monteverdi and Verdi? Are you not quite sure whether Don José loves Tosca or Othello? Do you believe that opera it is always the same old story, a tenor who loves a soprano who is married to a baritone?  Was Handel a German living in England who composed in Italian, or is it the other way around? Do we owe Rossini anything other than his famous recipe for preparing meat? Does La Bohème take place in Paris or in Prague? If all these questions leave you in a tizzy, then it’s time for a little refresher course! This is precisely what we offer you in these 60 playfully musical minutes covering 400 years in the history of opera – with a few shortcuts and byways, obviously, but with the idea of leaving out nothing of that which makes for the magic, the emotion, the inebriation and the vertigo of an art that continues since 1607 to fascinate and solicit the most sublime enthusiasm!