A merry hubbub escapes from the Place Boieldieu.
It is 7:15 p.m. on Friday April 30.
In the deserted district of Parisian department stores, the curfew has just fallen, but around forty children are resisting on the steps of the Salle Favart.
In a few minutes, the doors will open just for them.
They will then take place on the first balcony of the imposing vessel imagined by Louis Bernier, under the sky colored with constellations by Benjamin Constant.
Direction?
The moon.
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These budding artists, aged 11 to 18, are among the 90 masters that the Opéra Comique has decided to embark on in its space epic:
Le Voyage dans la Lune
, by Offenbach.
"An opera-fairy like we would no longer do today"
, rejoices the director Laurent Pelly.
When it was created in 1875, Offenbach had spent lavishly: 676 costumes, 24 monumental sets, a real white dromedary, a life-size replica of the Observatory dome, a ballet of snowflakes.
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