Sessions

Thursday 10 April • 20h00

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Friday 11 April • 20h00

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Sunday 13 April • 15h00

Relax sessions

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Clara Olivares and Chloé Lechat build on the opera form to camp the characters and raise the contemporary issues of this unconventional topic. Resulting from their collaborative writing process, their mesmerising immersive project’stage and music directions bring together three singers, an actress and a narrative orchestra. With their help, the opera genre intends to capture all the nuances of intimate life.

A mother and her gifted complex daughter meet a couple of women in crisis. The three adults become friends and try to assist the girl in finding her
sense of purpose. But each of these sentinels reveals different aspirations for happiness and the child slips away from them.

Love comes in many shades as this story addresses many topics of current interest: the patterns inherited from living together, the bitter reconciliation of desire and responsibility, the challenges of being to the world exchanging with one another, the ills of disparity.

Libretto by Chloé Lechat. Music by Clara Olivares. Created on 10th November 2024 at the Opéra National de Bordeaux

Composer, Clara Olivares • Musical direction, Lucie Leguay • With Anne-Catherine Gillet, Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo, Noémie Develay-Ressiguier • Stage direction, Chloé Lechat • Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine

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Estimated duration : 1h30, no intermission - Salle Favart
110, 85, 75, 55, 30, 25, 12, 6 €

Show performed in French with French and English surtitles

The doors of the opera-house open 45 minutes before the performance.

Audio description (EN)

Some operas are available in audio description. "Image whisperers” are also available on demand.
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People with reduced mobility

16 seats are dedicated to people with reduced mobility, on reservation at the box office or by phone. Access to the lift is located 5 rue Favart
+33 1 70 23 01 44 | accessibilite@opera-comique.com

Visitors who are deaf or hard of hearing

Headsets and magnetic loops are available at the ticket inspection desk, on deposit of your ID. Material in Braille and large prints is available free of charge, on site.

Relax sessions

Relax sessions offer a inclusive caring environment for people whose disability (autism, multiple disabilities, mental or psychic disability, Alzheimer…) may give rise to atypical and unpredictable behaviour during the show.

Aged 10 and older

Les Pléiades

Around the show
Each lyrical production will be supported by “Pléiades” extending and enriching its content in accessible, offbeat, prospective or intimate formats.

Concerts and recitals

Masterclasses at the Académie

April 09, 2025

Event

After-Show | Les Sentinelles

April 11, 2025

Before the show

To discover

45 minutes before the performance : The keys to the show with the dramaturge of the Opéra Comique (in French).
Salle Bizet | Free

To relax

The intermission bar offers drinks and light refreshments as soon as the theatre doors open.

Accessibility

Audiodescription (In French) | Friday 11 April at 8 pm and Sunday 13 April at 3 pm
This opera is available in audio description. "Image whisperers” are also available on demand.

Relax session | Sunday 13 April at 3 pm
Relax sessions offer a inclusive caring environment for people whose disability may give rise to atypical and unpredictable behaviour during the show.