OPERA FRANCAIS DE NEW YORK

05/22/2012

Does this make sense or censorship?

Opera News magazine said it would stop reviewing the Metropolitan Opera, a policy prompted by the Met’s dissatisfaction over negative critiques.

03/18/2012

OFNY ♥ Macaron Day NYC 2012

Join us on Tuesday March 20 2012 for NYC's Macarons Day. Get free macarons and when you buy them you help for a good cause.

03/07/2012

OFNY Patron Tour to PARIS, March 2012

03/07/2012

We're just back from an extended weekend in Paris where OFNY patrons and Board members attended the Opera de Paris's production of Debussy's Devil in the Belfy / Fall of the House of Usher, premiered by OFNY in 2008... Congratulations to OFNY co-artistic directors Jean-Philippe CLARAC and Olivier DELOEUIL, and designer Rick MARTIN on another great success!

In 1908, following the success of the premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande, the director of the Metropolitan Opera of New York commissioned Claude Debussy to write an opera based on one of the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe, the inventor of supernatural literature in the United States. Introduced to F...

02/03/2012

CONGRATULATIONS to our Co-Artistic Directors Jean-Philippe CLARAC and Olivier DELOEUIL for their splendid production of Debussy's 'Le Martyre de St Sebastien' at Cite de la Musique in Paris last week! (Flash forward to 15:00 to see this gorgeous semi-staged 'musical mystery play' for yourself...)

concert enregistré à la Cité de la musique le 31 janvier 2012 / Claude Debussy, compositeur ; texte de Gabriele d'Annunzio / Micha Lescot (le Saint) ; Karen Vourc'h (la Mère) ; Éric Bougnon (le Père) ; Blanche Konrad (la Bonne) ; Pauline Sabatier, Marie Kalinine (les Jumeaux)

02/02/2012

See you in Paris! Tickets are going fast for this original OFNY take on Debussy's unfinished 'Fall of the House of Usher / Devil in the Belfry' by Co-Artistic Directors Jean-Philippe CLARAC and Olivier DELOEUIL and Designer Rick MARTIN...

Dans le cadre de l\'atelier lyrique de l\'Opéra national de Paris, découvrez : {Nom spectacle}

01/09/2012

Opera Singers Initiative announces their 2012 roster - congratulations to OSI and all these fabulous singers!

Allyson Herman, soprano, was most recently seen as Susanna in Opera on the Avalon's "Le nozze di Figaro" in Newfoundland, Canada. Ms. Herman completed her Master of Music degree at Manhattan School of Music, where she went on to the professional studies program. While at MSM, Ms. Herman sang the rol...

12/27/2011

Mr. Amato brought passion and soul to the NYC opera scene for 50+ years. A true New Yorker and a true lover of opera.

Mr. Amato’s opera company, Amato Opera, was long the brightest star in the constellation of semiprofessional opera companies spread over the city — the Off Broadway of the opera world.

12/21/2011

Stage Door at The Met: Our very own Yves Abel signing autographs after the Dec 15 performance of La Fille du Regiment.

12/12/2011

Friends & Fans - listen to OFNY co-founder Yves Abel conducting La Fille du Regiment LIVE from The Met TONIGHT!!

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12/06/2011

From the cutting edge of music in New York City... For composers and performers out there...

The Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA (the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) is dedicated entirely to adventurous contemporary music. We will write it. We will perform it. We will think about it and we will talk about it. We will spend three weeks immersed in recent music that...

12/01/2011

If music be the food of love, then French opera should definitely be in the diet...

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