It happened in Montpellier

In the hands of the Opéra Junior choir and director Benoît Bénichou, Offenbach's Genevieve of Brabant was a mind-blowing and exhilarating performance.

Performed at Christmas in 2019, the adaptation of Jules Renard's Poil de Carotte (Carrot Top), performed by the opera house under the direction of Reinhardt Wagner and Zabou Breitman, was a musical theater masterpiece, imbued with humor and poetry.

The Four Seasons Remix: in partnership with Montpellier Dance, the opera house adapted Vivaldi's Four Seasons, integrating electroacoustic music and hip-hop choreography by the MIMH dance company.

L'italiana in Algeri: the quirky direction of David Hermann took Rossini's characters into the middle of a virgin forest after a plane crash, and the crash site was completely reconstructed on stage!

In an unforgettable moment of immersive musical theater, La Soupe Pop invited members of the public to meet characters encountered by the director Marie-Ève Signeyrole in soup kitchens.

No audience member at the Berlioz opera house could forget Puccini's Humming Chorus in Madame Butterfly, accompanying Cio Cio San in her interminable wait, bathed in the soft pale light of D.M. Woods.

A huge bookcase, sculptures of mythical and prehistoric animals, and Don Pasquale in the air ... Valentin Schwarz's direction and scenery by Andrea Cozzi won the international Ring Award.

This production of Don Pasquale was the first opera in the world to be signed: two performers in amongst the singers interpreted the opera in French Sign Language for audience members who were deaf or hard of hearing.

Led by our head conductor Michael Schønwandt, a performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was a huge success at the Berlioz opera house.

In 2018, the audience was invited to a performance of Carmen ... in space ! The director, Aik Karapetian, made the Andalusian queen an alien (with the same power over men.)

A real moment of poetry during A Midsummer Night's Dream (Britten, adapted from Shakespeare) directed by Ted Huffman, the opera house's artist in residence.

The spectacle of music and choreography Step in! by the young members of Opéra Junior.

Children were excited to find the grand foyer of the Opéra Comédie transformed into a spring garden to the sound of Vivaldi's Four Seasons.

The unforgettable Puccini's Turandot, directed by Yannis Kokkos.

For Chérubin (Massenet), director Juliette Deschamps and set designer Macha Makeïeff invited the audience into sundrenched Californian villas like those in David Hockney paintings.