2023 / Gala / Opera
02 Dec.

Gala Maria Callas

    Palais Garnier

    20h

    Duration
    1h40

    Dress Black tie - long dress

  • Cocktail d'ouverture
    19h15
  • 1st part
    20h00
  • End of the performance
    21h40

To mark the centenary of Maria Callas’ birth on 2 December 1923, the Paris Opera is staging a special gala to support the institution’s activities on the anniversary date. 

A compelling singer and a deeply moving tragedienne, Maria Callas transformed the art of operatic acting and singing. She performed three times on the stage of the Palais Garnier: at a Legion d’Honneur gala in 1958, in Norma in 1964 under the baton of Georges Prêtre, and in Franco Zeffirelli’s famous production of Tosca. She also had a special bond with Paris, where she lived and died on 16 September 1977. 

Conducted by Eun Sun Kim, the soprano Sondra Radvanovsky will pay tribute to Callas in a setting designed by Robert Carsen.

Il Barbiere di Siviglia

  • Music

    Gioacchino Rossini

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

Master Class

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot
  • Libretto

    Terrence McNally

Norma

  • Music

    Vincenzo Bellini

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

La Traviata

  • Music

    Giuseppe Verdi

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

Carmen

  • Music

    Georges Bizet

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

Il Trovatore

  • Music

    Giuseppe Verdi

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

Macbeth

  • Music

    Giuseppe Verdi

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

La Sonnambula

  • Music

    Vincenzo Bellini

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

Manon Lescaut

  • Music

    Giacomo Puccini

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

Don Carlo

  • Music

    Giuseppe Verdi

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

Final monologue

  • Music

    Jake Heggie

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

Tosca

  • Music

    Giacomo Puccini

  • Conductor
    Eun Sun Kim
  • Conception and staging
    Robert Carsen
  • Soprano
    Sondra Radvanovsky
  • Soprano
    Pretty Yende
  • Soprano
    Kate Lindsey
  • Mezzo-Soprano
    Eve-Maud Hubeaux
  • Actress
    Carole Bouquet
  • Étoile invitée
    Marie-Agnès Gillot

Cast

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Maria
Callas

Rosina

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Carole
Bouquet

Reading

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Sondra
Radvanovsky

Norma

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Pretty
Yende

Violetta Valéry

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Eve-Maud
Hubeaux

Carmen

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Maria
Callas

Leonora

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Sondra
Radvanovsky

Lady Macbeth

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Pretty
Yende

Amina

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Sondra
Radvanovsky

Manon Lescaut

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Eve-Maud
Hubeaux

Princess Eboli

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Kate
Lindsey

Soprano

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Florence
Boissolle

Piano accompaniment

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Sondra
Radvanovsky

Tosca

The Paris Opera Orchestra

Vissi d’arte – Gala Maria Callas fait l’objet d’une captation, réalisée par François-René Martin, coproduite par l’Opéra national de Paris et Morgane Production, avec la participation de France Télévisions, le soutien du CNC et de la Fondation Orange, mécène des retransmissions audiovisuelles de l’Opéra national de Paris.

Il sera retransmis ultérieurement sur POP, la plateforme de l’Opéra national de Paris.

Vissi d’arte – Gala Maria Callas sera retransmis le 8 décembre 2023 sur France 5 lors d’une soirée spéciale consacrée à Maria Callas, et sera diffusé le 23 décembre 2023 sur France Musique à 20h dans l’émission « Samedi à l’Opéra », présentée par Judith Chaine.

Mécènes &
partenaires

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    Montre de l'Opéra national de Paris

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    Mécène du rayonnement de l'Opéra