Clara et les sortilèges: the children's podcast

Five 10-minute episodes to discover the Opéra-Comique with Clara and Léo, two apprentice dressmakers whose needles will bring the theater's costumes back to life. But what do these time-honored fabrics want? What are they crying out for?

A funny, twirling drama for children and parents alike. Available on all streaming platforms and on our website.

Only available in french.

The Opéra-Comique presents Clara et les sortilèges

A story written by Stéphane Michaka,
Directed by Laure Egoroff,
with
Clara Noël, Henry-David Cohen, Marjorie de Larquier, Trinidad Tio 

Sound recording, editing and mixing: Simon Cacheux
Sound effects: Eleonore Mallo
Original music: François Clos 

Production: Cécile Cros NARRATIVE
Coordination Opéra-Comique: Juliette Chevalier, Laure Salefranque, Juliette Tissot-Vidal, Joseph Ravasi 

Thanks to the Opéra-Comique team: Caroline Giovos, Chrysoline Dupont, Alexandre Bodin, Céline Curutchet, Agnès Terrier, Emmanuelle Rista and Louis Langrée 

And to Alain Lanceron and Warner Classics / Erato, France Musique, Oxymore Production, François Roussillon et Associés, Sophie Furlaud and Damien Giard, Carole Cheysson, Juliette Prouteau 

Thanks to the children of the Maurice Arnoux nursery school in Montrouge, Mélanie Guillaumin and Isabelle Bance di Domenico.

Episode 2: Spells

L'Enfant et les Sortilèges by Maurice Ravel

Le Feu

Performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Sabine Devieilhe.
Conducted by Mikko Frank
© Radio France under exclusive license to Parlophone Records, Warner Classics UK Ltd
Warner Classics / Erato, 2016 

Manon by Jules Massenet

Adieu, notre petit table

Performed by the Orchestre Symphonique et choeurs de la Monnaie, Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna
Conducted by Antonio Pappano
Parlophone Records, Warner Classics UK Ltd
Warner Classics / Erato, 2010

Episode 3: Leaflets

Lakmé by Léo Delibes

Flower duet, Act I " Sous le dôme épais " (Under the thick dome)

Performed by the Orchestre Les Siècles, Sabine Devieilhe and Élodie Méchain
Conducted by François-Xavier Roth
Show recorded by France Musique at the Opéra-Comique during performances, 2014

Sounds of rehearsals by the Maîtrise Populaire de l'Opéra Comique - conducted by Sarah Koné, recorded at the Opéra Comique, 2023 

Fantasio by Jacques Offenbach

Ballade à la Lune " Voyez dans la nuit brune " (Ballad to the Moon)

Performed by the Orchestre de chambre de Paris, Marianne Crebassa
Musical director, Laurent Campellone
Concert recorded by Oxymore Production, at the Opéra-Comique, 2020

Episode 4: Escape

Cendrillon by Jules Massenet

"Enfin, je suis ici"

Performed by the Orchestre et Chœur des Musiciens du Louvre - Grenoble, Judith Gauthier
Conducted by Marc Minkowski
Recorded at the Opéra-Comique during the performances, 2011

Pelléas et Mélisande by Claude Debussy

Overture

Performed by the Orchestre des Champs-Élysées
Conducted by Louis Langrée
Recorded at the Opéra-Comique during performances, 2014 

Les Contes d'Hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach

Instrumental introduction to the Barcarolle

Performed by the Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra
Conducted by Sascha Goetzel
© Parlophone Records, Warner Classics UK Ltd
Warner Classics / Erato, 2022

Carmen by Georges Bizet

Overture to Act II of La Bohème

Performed by the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, The Monteverdi Choir
Conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Performance filmed by François Roussillon et Associés at the Opéra-Comique, 2009

Episode 5: Places, dancers!

Armide by Christoph Willibald Gluck

« Ah ! quelle erreur, quelle folie »

Performed by the Orchestre Les Talens Lyrique, Choeur les éléments
Conducted by Christophe Rousset
Recorded at the Opéra-Comique during the performances, 2022