“Live” virtual tours are organized by OpéraVision with Opéra Junior.
Follow the guides! We do not get lost with the singers of Opera Junior during the visit organized by OpéraVision on the famous Tik Tok network for a small drama of half an hour. We have fun in this sacred place that is the Opéra Comédie, one of the five lyrical houses chosen for an Opera Week, live and online, which ended on Friday.
We rediscover the architecture, lighting, mythological canvases and mosaics, first the Three Graces, then the foyer, the Italian room and the Molière room, its horn players and the rare piano, a Bösendorfer with its incredible sound. keyboard. The route continues towards the pit, the stage, the wings, but also the presidential box, the two-ton chandelier, 3,000 baccarats and 150 bulbs, the “forbidden room” and its scaffolding.
At a run, the nine masked guides, followed by Ornella Tumminello’s camera, unfold anecdotes and comments, not without humor. The management is looking for a stray dog, a show is imminent: we would like… Finally the director Valérie Chevalier appears, the young people sing the song. Canticle of Jean Racine de Fauré, accompanied by Valérie Blanvillain. Superb. But… Puccini or Oxmo Puccino? Change of style. An unforeseen call is made with insistence by Valérie Chevalier: “If you can hear me, the opera is yours!” The invitation is for rapper Booba!
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