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Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris, Tuesday May 27 2025 Conductor: Sora Elisabeth Lee. Production, sets and costumes: Pierre Lebon. Lighting: Bertrand Killy. Orchestre de Chambre de Paris. L’Arlésienne Balthazar: Eddie Chignara. L’Innocent: Pierre Lebon. Mitifio/Frédéri (dancer): Aurélien Bednarek. Rose/Vivette (dancer): Iris Florentiny. Soprano: Dima Bawab. Mezzo-soprano: Héloïse Mas. Tenor: Marc Mauillon. Baritone: Thomas Dolié. Le Docteur Miracle Laurette: Dima Bawab. Véronique: Héloïse Mas. Silvio: Marc Mauillon. Le podestat de Padoue: Thomas Dolié. L’assistant du Docteur Miracle (spoken role): Pierre Lebon. Photos: © Thomas Amouroux This production was scheduled as part of the ‘Festival Palazzetto Bru Zane Paris’, to mark the 150th anniversary of Bizet’s death. It brings together one late and one early work: the complete incidental music to Alphonse Daudet’s play L'Arlésienne (1872), and Le Docteur Miracle , an opéra bouffe composed for Offenbach’s Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens (185...

Studio Marigny, Paris, Friday September 27 2109 Production, sets and costumes: Pierre Lebon. Lighting: Bertrand Killy. Le Podestat: Laurent Deleuil. Le Capitaine Silvio: David Ghilardi. Véronique, the Podestat’s wife: Laura Neumann. Laurette, the Podestat’s daughter: Makeda Monnet. Docteur Miracle’s assistant: Pierre Lebon. Piano: Martin Surot. Lecocq I was supposed to kick my new season off last Tuesday with a concert version of Giulio Cesare at the TCE in Paris, but had instead, maddeningly, to be on stage myself at work, MC-ing a management conference. At 23.30 I got a text message from my opera-going companions saying 'Désolé... superbe soirée' - 'Sorry... superb evening.' So instead, after ending the old season with Hervé's frantic  Mam'zelle Nitouche , I kicked off the new at the Studio Marigny with another hour of madcap fun from the Palazzetto Bru Zane, who are now reviving, with their usual care and attention, France's  opéra bouffe : L...