La Grande affabulation
30 € / 15 € (under 18) Price

La Grande Affabulation

Geoffroy Jourdain & Benjamin Lazar

May 10 to 16, 2025

30 € / 15 € (under 18) Price
Dès le 22.03.2024 : lancement des cartes de réduction ou abonnements | 23.04.2024 : ouverture des places à l'unité Les informations pratiques
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Sessions

Audio description (EN) - Some operas are available in audio description. "Image whisperers” are also available on demand. More info on this page
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.

Audio description (EN) - Some operas are available in audio description. "Image whisperers” are also available on demand. More info on this page
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. Relax sessions

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

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.

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

A twenty-first century urban legend claims that one night, some children left their home without telling their parents, in a quest known to them alone. They had brought their own food, costumes, trestles and songs. During their stopovers, they would compel the musical stories of which they were becoming the heroes. La grande affabulation narrates the great musical confabulation of their maiden voyage.

« I became a fabulous opera. » - Arthur Rimbaud

A twenty-first century urban legend claims that one night, some children left their home without telling their parents, in a quest known to them alone. They had
brought their own food, costumes, trestles and songs. During their stopovers, they would compel the musical stories of which they were becoming the heroes. La grande affabulation narrates the great musical confabulation of their maiden voyage.

For the students of the Opéra-Comique’s Maîtrise Populaire, aged 12 to 23, Geoffroy Jourdain and Benjamin Lazar have created a colourful show combining the sprit of early opera « music fable » with that of parades and popular festivals. Our young singers could not wish for better mentors in the baroque repertoire which has brought forth so many forms of union between poetry and music as well as dance and song.

On this journey, they cross eras and glean from other modern and contemporary music genres accompanying their mysterious quest.

Artistic Design Geoffroy Jourdain & Benjamin Lazar.

Musical direction, Geoffroy Jourdain • Stage direction, Benjamin Lazar • Orchestra Les Cris de Paris • Choir Maîtrise Populaire de l’Opéra-Comique

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Estimated duration : 1h30, no intermission - Salle Favart
30 € / 15 € (under 18)

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.
More info on this page

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 is accompanied by our Pléiades, which extend and enrich the content of the performances in accessible, offbeat, prospective or intimate formats.

Before the show

To discover

45 minutes before the performance : The keys to the show with Lucie Martinez, our cultural mediator (in French).
Salle Bizet | Free

To relax

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

To discuss

At the end of the show on 11, 12 and 15 May, meet the production artists on stage for a 20-minute chat (in French).

Accessibility

Audiodescription (In French) | Saturday 10 May at 8 pm, Sunday 11 May at 3 pm
This opera is available in audio description. "Image whisperers” are also available on demand.

Check out the audio description schedule for La Grande Affabulation here.

Relax session | Sunday 11 May 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.

 

Artists

Artistic Design Geoffroy Jourdain & Benjamin Lazar. Creation.

Artistic Design
Geoffroy Jourdain
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Artistic Design
Benjamin Lazar
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Artistic team

Musical direction
Geoffroy Jourdain
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Stage direction
Benjamin Lazar
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Artistic collaboration
Elizabeth Calleo
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Decor et costumes
Adeline Caron
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Lights
Christophe Naillet
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Choreography
Gudrun Skamletz
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Artist of the Académie de l'Opéra-Comique | Assistant musical director
Guillemette Daboval
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costume assistant
Adelaïde Gosselin
Director of Music Studies
Katia Weimann
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Trainee stage director
Michel Abdallah
Choral conductor
Clara Brenier
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Role study
Dorothée Voisine
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Cast

Choir
Maîtrise Populaire de l'Opéra-Comique
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Orchestra
Les Cris de Paris
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L'Académie de l'Opéra-Comique
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Character Families

The Choristers

The Birds

The Sorcerers

The Nobles

The Animals of the Forest of Long Waiting

The Knights and Ladies of Valor

The Allegories of Dream and Nightmare

Roles

The Mistress of the Choir
Astrid Gueritee-Petit
The Bird-Being
Solveig Cesnulevicius
The Birds
Léonie Guilbert (histoire du perroquet), Mona Keto (histoire de la poupée), Adèle Guigue (danse de la poupée)
The Chief Sorcerer
Isaac Muniesa
The Grandmother
Ulysse Dureau
The Prince
Léo Bianconi-Simon
The princess
Dora Maigne
The Sleepy Knight
Axel Rivière

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