Opéra Éclaté is a small-scale
opera company
Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libretti ...
based in
Colomiers
Colomiers (; oc, Colomèrs; Languedocien dialect: ''Colomièrs'') is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitania region in Southwestern France. With a population of 39,968 as of 2019, it is the largest suburb of the city of Toul ...
,
Midi-Pyrénées
Midi-Pyrénées (; oc, Miègjorn-Pirenèus or ; es, Mediodía-Pirineos) is a former administrative region of France. Since 1 January 2016, it has been part of the new region of Occitania. It was the largest region of Metropolitan France by ar ...
, France.
It was founded in 1985 by Oliver Desbordes, who remains its director, while also undertaking stage direction of many productions. In 1998-99, Opéra Éclaté was recognised by the
Ministère de la Culture as a ‘Compagnie nationale de Théâtre Lyrique et Musical’.
Opéra Éclaté performs in a wide range of venues and aims particularly to engage in outreach toward those who do not normally go to opera.
Each winter 2-3 small-scale original productions are toured in the Midi-Pyrénées region and beyond within France. Over 20 years, 50 productions have been seen in 200 French towns, by 500,000 spectators. There have also been tours to Spain, Switzerland, Slovenia, Tunisia and Morocco.
The 2009 season will be revivals of ''Le roi Carotte'' and ''Berlin Années 20'' with ''
La flûte enchantée''.
[Guide des Opéras. Supplement to ''Diapason'' 572, September 2009.]
Opera productions have included:
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Le roi Carotte
''Le roi Carotte'' (''King Carrot'') is a 4-act opéra- bouffe- féerie with music by Jacques Offenbach and libretto by Victorien Sardou, after E. T. A. Hoffmann. The libretto, written before the French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, lampoone ...
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Un Barbier de Séville'' (after Rossini with recitatives replaced by dialogue by
Beaumarchais
Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (; 24 January 1732 – 18 May 1799) was a French polymath. At various times in his life, he was a watchmaker, inventor, playwright, musician, diplomat, spy, publisher, horticulturist, arms dealer, satirist, ...
)
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La traviata''
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La flûte enchantée''
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Carmen''
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Dédé''
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Les Contes d'Hoffmann
''The Tales of Hoffmann'' (French: ) is an by Jacques Offenbach. The French libretto was written by Jules Barbier, based on three short stories by E. T. A. Hoffmann, who is the protagonist of the story. It was Offenbach's final work; he died in ...
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Bastien et Bastienne''
Music-based spectacles have included:
*Madame Raymonde Revient!
*Tangos
*Berlin Années 20 (''Es liegt in der Luft'')
*Dubas de haut, en bas (about
Marie Dubas
Marie Dubas (3 September 1894 – 21 February 1972) was a French music-hall singer, diseuse and comedian.
Biography
Born in Paris, France, Marie Dubas began her career as a stage actress but became famous as a singer. Using the great Yvette Guil ...
, ‘l’Enfant Terrible of the Music-Hall’)
*Schubert/ Cavanna (by Bernard Cavanna)
*Les Eléments Méditerranée (included two world premieres: ''Trois fragments des Bacchantes'' by
Alexandros Markeas and ''Cette parole'' by
Zad Moultaka)
References
External links
Official web site of Opéra Éclaté
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French opera companies
Musical groups established in 1985
Musical groups from Occitania (administrative region)
1985 establishments in France