Rehearsals for Merlin's Island have begun!

Young students from the Académie de l'Opéra-Comique have begun rehearsing for the upcoming performances of L'Île de Merlin ou le Monde renversé, which will take place from 24 to 28 June 2025. A satirical fantasy tale in comic opera form composed by Gluck and brought up to date by Myriam Marzouki.

Published on 15 April 2025
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Rehearsals | June 2025

Rehearsals | March 2025

Musical Direction Guillemette Daboval / Sammy El Ghadab - Directed by Myriam Marzouki - With Ulysse Timoteo, Dominic Veilleux, Benoit Dechelotte, Léontine Zimmerlin, Vincent Guérin, Michèle Bréant, Fanny Soyer, Gulliver Hecq

Merlin's Island or The Upside-Down World

Christoph Willibald Gluck

June 24 to 28, 2025

A magical and philosophical tale, L'Île de Merlin ou Le Monde renversé is a comic opera in one act composed by Christoph Willibald Gluck and premiered in Vienna in 1758. The libretto, in French, is a version revised in 1753 by Louis Anseaume of the comedy mixed with vaudeville Le Monde renversé, written by Lesage and d'Orneval in 1718.

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