In 2023, the Paris Opera and its Academy created France's first youth lyric orchestra. In partnership with conservatories in Seine-Saint-Denis and Paris, ADO helps aspiring musicians aged 9 to 25 discover the art of opera and prepares them for a future in music.
 The documentary captures their journey behind the scenes at the Paris Opera: rehearsals, dance and singing sessions, inspiring encounters with professionals, and the thrill of performing at the Opéra Bastille. Producted by the Paris Opera - 2024 With the musicians of ADO

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ADO - First lyric youth orchestra of the Paris Opera

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ADO Concert at the Palais Garnier, on 13 June 2026 at 8 pm

In 2023, the Paris Opera and its Academy created France's first youth lyric orchestra.In partnership with conservatories in Seine-Saint-Denis and Paris, ADO helps aspiring musicians aged 9 to 25 discover the art of opera and prepares them for a futur

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Finalist and “Special Mention” of the 2019 Besançon International Competition, French conductor Victor Jacob is a regular guest with European and international orchestras. These include the Orchestre National de Lyon, the Orchestre National de Montpellier, the Orchestre Royal Philharmonique de. Liège, Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen-Normandie, Orchestre de Chambre Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Orchestre Symphonique de Tours, Esbjerg Ensemble in Denmark, Moscow State Philharmonia and Orchestre de Picardie. In opera, Victor is also invited to conduct or assist the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, the Orchestre Symphonique de La Monnaie, the Orchestre National de France and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio-France, and has trained in the operatic repertoire with Antonio Pappano, Nathalie Stutzmann and Paolo Arrivabeni. During the 22/23 season, he conducted the Orchestre National de Bordeaux, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Marseille, the Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, as well as at the Chorégies d'Orange, and shared the bill with Katia Buniatishvilli, Michael Spyres, Gaëlle Arquez, Julie Fuchs, Lucienne Renaudin Vary and Edgar Moreau. This season, Victor Jacob makes his debut with the Orchestre Philharmonique de RadioFrance, the Orquestra Sinfonica Simon Bolivar de Venezuela, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orchestre National Avignon-Provence and the Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal de Versailles. From 2019 to 2022, he was assistant conductor with the Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liège and Gergely Madaras, then with the Orchestre National de Lille under Alexandre Bloch. Victor Jacob received the title of Revelation Conductor at the 2023 Victoires de la Musique Classique awards. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London and the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, he trained with Alain Altinoglu, Sian Edwards and Colin Metters, and received guidance from Paavo and Kristjan Järvi, Leonid Grin, Marin Alsop, David Zinman, Lawrence Foster and Bernard Haitink.

Victor Jacob

Elodie Hache studied singing with Alexandra Papadjiakou. In 2012, she joined the Atelier Lyrique de l'Opéra national de Paris. While there, she sang Arminda in La Finta Giardiniera, Clarice in Il Mondo della Luna, The Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, excerpts from Phèdre in Rameau's Hippolyte et Aricie, and took part in numerous concerts. At the Paris Opéra, she sang Sandmännchen in Hänsel et Gretel, La Grande Prêtresse in Aida, Inès in Le Trouvère and took part in the production of Les Huguenots. She also doubled the role of Chimène in Massenet's Le Cid. She has appeared in such roles as Fiordiligi in Cosí fan tutte and Vitellia in La Clémence de Titus (Saint-Etienne), Salomé in Hérodiade (Düsseldorf, Saint-Etienne), Blanche de la Force in Dialogues des Carmélites (Saint-Etienne, Caen), Lully's Armide (Innsbruck), Diane and Iphigénie in Iphigénie en Tauride (Angers), Ortlinde in Die Walküre (Rennes), Elena in Boito's Mefistofele (Cracow), Micaëla in Carmen, Violetta in La Traviata and Mimi in La Bohème (Festival de Linières), the title role in Norma (Gut-Immling), the title role in Fidelio (Greece), Lady Macbeth's Next in Macbeth (Dijon).In concert, she sang Rossini's Stabat Mater as part of the Journées Musicales de Chartres, Dvorak's Te Deum and Messe en Ré with the Orchestre de Marseille, Verdi's Requiem in Saint-Etienne, Harawi at the Festival Messiaen and in a staged version in Limoges, the title role in Handel's Athalia with the Ensemble Diderot in Herblay, Ravel's Les Chansons Madécasses with instrumentalists from the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Paris, Gouvy's cantata Aslega with the Orchestre National de Metz, a Verdi Gala with the Orchestre de la Nouvelle Europe, a series of concerts with the Orchestre de l'Opéra de Limoges, a Rameau, Leclair and Gluck program with the Orchestre Régional de Normandie. She takes part in the "Ça va mieux en le chantant" series at the Angers and Nantes opera houses, and sings a "Rossini à Paris" program in Angers, Nantes and Rennes. This season, she sings the role of Hermosa in Gounod's Le Tribut de Zamora at Saint-Etienne and doubles the role of Julia in La Vestale at the Opéra national de Paris.&nbsp;

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A versatile artist, Benjamin Laurent is a pianist, vocalist, conductor, arranger, composer and actor.Winner of several prizes from the Paris and Lyon Conservatoires in accompaniment, conducting and writing, he joined the Académie de l'Opéra de Paris before pursuing his career in France (Opéras de Paris, Lille, Rouen, Dijon, Avignon, Festival d'Aix en Provence) and abroad (Monte-Carlo, Moscow's Bolchoi, Teatro Colon de Buenos Aires, Wexford Festival, Beijing Opera).He works with conductors Eivind Gullberg-Jensen, Guillaume Tourniaire, Geoffroy Jourdain, Jérémie Rohrer, Philippe Jordan, Nathalie Stuzmann, René Jacobs and stage directors Roméo Castellucci, Dominique Pitoiset, Jean-François Sivadier and Jacques Osinski.Since 2018, he has been regularly invited by the Académie de l'Opéra de Paris to provide musical direction or arrangements for shows and recitals (Kurt Weill Story by Mirabelle Ordinaire, Merveilles by Pierre Rigal, Concerts, Workshops).The 2021/2022 season sees the creation at the Paris Opera of “recited recitals”, in which he performs as pianist, actor and lecturer on great literary works and their musical correspondence, alongside baritone Volodymyr.

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ADO Concert at the Palais Garnier, on 13 June 2026 at 8 pm