They were 578 on the starting line on September 19.
They were only 15 to compete in the final rounds on Thursday.
It was on the Bastille stage, behind closed doors and away from indiscreet ears, that the final of the auditions took place on October 13 for the first members of the future troupe of the Opéra national de Paris!
An event.
Since the disappearance of the previous troop, the subject came up regularly on the carpet.
As soon as he was appointed head of the “Grande Boutique”, in July 2019, Alexander Neef hinted that he would look into the matter.
And started a lively dialogue with the French agents.
But the discreet announcement, at the beginning of the summer, of the launch of the auditions, took everyone by surprise.
“As it quickly became apparent that reassembling a troupe in Bastille would not be done like that, we were a little surprised by the launch of the auditions so early, when many questions remained unanswered. Especially in such a short time
,” says one of…
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