This was not originally to be Olivier Mantéi's last production as director of the Opéra Comique, before succeeding Laurent Bayle in November at the head of the Philharmonie de Paris.
But the fact that he is bowing out on a successful creation says something about a mandate that will have guaranteed the Salle Favart a prominent place in the lyrical landscape.
We cannot say, however, that
Les Éclairs
, a “joyful drama” conceived by the composer Philippe Hersant and the writer Jean Échenoz, whose libretto pre-exists the music, will change the history of opera.
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With these two artists in love with a job well done and a chiseled language, the profession wins out over inspiration, and the desire for originality at all costs is no more a priority than the question of being modern or not. .
What matters is not to renew a genre, but to provide a work that is musically pleasant, dramatically coherent, scenically viable, where text, music and song advance in the same
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