The director of Opéra-Comique meets again with the young artists of the Academy for an exceptional masterclass, joined by the singers of the Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts at The Juilliard School. Phrasing, refinement, style, repertoire: a Franco-American encounter at the heart of the Campus Favart.
Cast
Louis Langrée, with the artists of the Academy of Opéra-Comique and the singers of the Marcus Institute for Vocal Arts – The Juilliard School • Mathieu Pordoy, director of musical studies
Detailed cast of the 2026-2027 Academy class to come
Louis Langrée, Opéra-Comique, 2025 © LaurenceRevol
Biography
A French conductor, Louis Langrée has been director of Opéra-Comique since 2021. In this capacity, he initiated the creation of the Campus Favart, a project placing transmission and training at the heart of the house's mission, and in 2023 he founded the Academy of Opéra-Comique. He defends an approach to the repertoire rooted in stylistic precision, attention to the text and theatrical gesture.
Music Director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra from 2013 to 2024 and then conductor emeritus, he has also led the Camerata Salzburg and the Mostly Mozart Festival in New York for nearly twenty years. A regular guest of the world's leading stages (Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera, Salzburg Festival, La Scala, Opéra national de Paris), he conducts both the Mozart repertoire — which he has shaped with widely recognised authority — and the great French operas of Berlioz, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy and Ravel.
At Opéra-Comique, he has notably conducted Carmen, The Pearl Fishers, Fantasio, La Vie parisienne, Pelléas et Mélisande, L'Heure espagnole and Pulcinella. Committed to transmission, he devotes several masterclasses each season to the young artists of the Academy and oversees a structuring partnership between Opéra-Comique, The Juilliard School and Villa Albertine, launched in 2026.
Program
This masterclass is part of the educational and cultural partnership launched in 2026 between Opéra-Comique, The Juilliard School and Villa Albertine, which brings together each season young artists from both institutions for working sessions and concerts in Paris and New York.
As part of the partnership between Opéra-Comique, The Juilliard School and Villa Albertine.
Detailed program to come
The Academy of Opéra-Comique
A major player in lyric creation for more than three centuries, in 2023 Opéra-Comique opened an Academy dedicated to new generations of performers.
Its mission is to promote the opéra-comique genre and its specific art of interpretation, performed as close as possible to the texts and to stage action. It aspires to be a centre of artistic excellence around French singing and the art of spoken-sung performance. The Academy also aims to identify and support young French-speaking artists by encouraging them to develop fresh perspectives on lyric art and its vitality.
The disciplines of dramaturgy and costume design are also called to join this project.
