<a target="blank" href="https://www.france.tv/spectacles-et-culture/opera-musique-classique/6887548-gala-des-150-ans-du-palais-garnier.html">If you are located in France, click here to watch the broadcast on France.tv</a>Since its inauguration day, on January 5, 1875, the Palais Garnier has never ceased to amaze the public. With a sumptuous architecture and luxurious decorations including marbles, mosaics, sculptures and paintings, this building is truly extraordinary. A place of social gatherings and a national symbol, the Palais Garnier went through artistic and political history to become a world-famous monument.To mark this anniversary, a series of events is organised throughout the year 2025, kicking off with a Gala bringing together all the artists of the Opera. Musicians of the Orchestra, artists of the Chorus and the Academy, dancers of the Ballet Company and School, guest artists gather to celebrate the anniversary of this arts, music and dance temple.

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The Palais Garnier turns 150 - Program of festivities

If you are located in France, click here to watch the broadcast on France.tv Since its inauguration day, on January 5, 1875, the Palais Garnier has never ceased to amaze the public. With a sumptuous architecture and luxurious decorations including ma

The Palais Garnier turns 150

Anniversary Gala

After his beginning in Lucerne and Lyon, mostly in the Mozart and Bel Canto repertoires, Ludovic Tézier has been invited to perform on the greatest international stages. He sang the major roles of the baritone repertoire, under the baton of conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Riccardo Chailly, Gustavo Dudamel and Philippe Jordan.He has performed the role of Amonasro (Aida) at the Verona Arena and the Royal Opera House in London, the title role in Rigoletto at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the Vienna Staatsoper and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the title role of Simon Boccanegra in Zurich, the roles of Renato (Un ballo in maschera) at La Scala in Milan, Barnaba (La Gioconda) and Carlo Gerard (Andrea Chénier) at the Sydney Opera House, Wolfram (Tannhäuser) in Munich and Vienna, Baron Scarpia (Tosca) at the Salzburg Festival, in London and Berlin, Amfortas (Parsifal) and Athanaël (Thaïs) at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.
During the 2024-2025 season, he notably performs as Giorgio Germont in La Traviata, Amfortas in Parsifal, and Wolfram in Tannhäuser at the Staatsoper in Vienna, the title role in Simon Boccanegra at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin, and Don Carlo di Vargas in La Forza del Destino at La Scala in Milan and Wotan (L'Or du Rhin) at the Opéra national de Paris.



At the Paris Opera: La Bohème (Schaunard), 1999 ; La Bohème (Marcello), 2001, 2009, 2014 ; Le Nozze di Figaro (Count Almaviva), 2003, 2010 ; The Queen of Spades (Prince Eletski), 2005, 2012 ; Lucia di Lammermoor (Enrico Ashton), 2006, 2013 ; Un ballo in maschera (Renato), 2007, 2009 ; Werther (title-role), 2009 ; Werther (Albert), 2010 ; Don Carlo (Rodrigo, Marquis de Posa), 2010 ; Eugen Onegin (title-role), 2010 ; Carmen (Escamillo), 2012 ; La Traviata (Giorgio Germont), 2014, 2018, 2019, 2024 ; Tosca (Baron Scarpia), 2014, 2021 ; Il Trovatore (Count di Luna), 2016 ; Rigoletto (title-role), 2016, 2021 ; Don Carlos (Rodriguez), 2017 ; Simon Boccanegra (title-role), 2018, 2024 ; Manon (Lescaut), 2020 ; Aida (Amonasro), 2021 ; La Forza del destino (Don Carlo di Vargas), 2022

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Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Cuban parents, Lisette Oropesa played the flute before beginning her studies in vocal performance at Louisiana State University. She entered the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program and moved to New York City. She began her career at the Metropolitan Opera, New York, where she starred in various roles including Susanna (Le Nozze di Figaro), Manon Lescaut (Manon), Violetta (La Traviata), Nannetta (Falstaff), Gretel (Hänsel et Gretel) and Gilda (Rigoletto). She has performed Konstanze (Il Seraglio) at the Bayerische Staatsoper Munich and Vienna Staatsoper, Gilda (Rigoletto) at the Dutch National Opera, Teatro dell'opera di Roma, Los Angeles Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera de New York and Vienna Staatsoper, Norina (Don Pasquale) in Glyndebourne, the title-role of Lucia di Lammermoor at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Opernhaus Zurich, Vienna Staatsoper, at the Salzburg and Aix-en-Provence festivals and at Teatro alla Scala, in Milan, and Violetta (La Traviata) at the Arena di Verona, Bayerische Staatsoper Munich, Royal Opera House Covent Garden and Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, Elvira (I Puritani) at Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, the title role of Alcina in London, Amalia (I Masnadieri) at the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, Fiorilla (Il turco in Italia) at Teatro Real in Madrid and Juliette (Roméo et Juliette) in Savonlinna. Her repertoire also includes Ophelie (Hamlet), Leïla (Les Pêcheurs de perles), Marie (La Fille du régiment), Rosina (The Barber of Seville) and Adina (L’Elisir d’amore). This season, she sings Marie in Chicago, Elvira in Dresden, Mathilde (Guillaume Tell) in Vienna and Amina (La sonnambula) in Rome. She won the Beverly Sills and Richard Tucker awards in 2019.

At the Paris Opera: Il Seraglio (Konstanze), 2015; Rigoletto (Gilda), 2017; Les Huguenots (Marguerite de Valois), 2018 ; L’elisir d’amore (Adina), 2018; The Barber of Seville (Rosina), 2020; Hamlet (Ophélie), 2023; Giulio Cesare (Cleopatra), 2024

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Lea Desandre trained as a singer in Venice under Sara Mingardo. In 2015, she joined William Christie’s Le Jardin des Voix, then the Académie of the Aix-en-Provence Festival in 2016. She was named the Revelation of the Year at the Victoires de la Musique Classique in 2017 and “Female Singer of the Year” by Opus Klassik 2022. She is also a winner of the Prix de la Critique 2024.Recent highlights include her performances as Rosina (The Barber of Seville), Dido (Dido and Aeneas), Urbain (Les Huguenots), Stéphano (Roméo et Juliette) and Timna (Samson). She sang the role of Cherubino (Le Nozze di Figaro) in seven different productions since her debut in 2021: at the Aix-en-Provence Festival, Paris Opera, Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, Zurich Opera House, Lausanne Opera, Ravenna Opera and the Salzburg Festival.​Since 2018, she has performed every year at the Salzburg Festival, in particular as Despina (Cosi fan Tutti), Annio (La Clemenza di Tito), Valletto/Amore (L’Incoronazione di Poppea), Venus (Orphée aux Enfers) or Abel (La Morte d’Abel). Last season, she appeared as Idamante (Idomeneo) at the Grand Théâtre de Genève and as Ariodante (title-role) on a European tour&nbsp;The 2024/25 season sees her in Les Nuits d’Eté (Berlioz) with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, a new recital with Alexandre Kantorow and the Idylle programme with Thomas Dunford. At the Opera, she is also making her role debuts as Sapho / Iphise / Eglé (Les Fêtes d’Hébé) at Opera Comique and Poppea (Agrippina) at the Zurich Opera.At the Paris Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro (Cherubino), 2022; Roméo et Juliette (Stephano), 2023; Medea (title-role), 2024

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Born in Lima in 1973, tenor Juan Diego Flórez began singing and playing Peruvian folk and pop music at an early age. At the age of 17, he enrolled at the National Conservatory of Music in Lima and three years later won a scholarship to continue his vocal studies at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. In 1996 he made his professional debut at the Rossini Opera Festival in Pesaro, where he was hired on short notice to sing the tenor role of Corradino in Matilde di Shabran.In the same year, at the age of 23, he was invited to make his debut at La Scala in Milan for the opening of the season under Riccardo Muti. Since then, he has appeared on the world's most important opera stages under the direction of the world's greatest conductors. Early in his career, he made a name for himself with his interpretations of the Belcanto repertoire, and later with his portrayals of French Romantic heroes.Juan Diego Flórez has recorded numerous solo albums as well as complete operas on CD and DVD. In 2024 he will launch his own label with a new album dedicated to Zarzuela. In 2011, Juan Diego Flórez founded "Sinfonía por el Perú", an inclusive social project that runs orchestras and choirs throughout Peru to help the most vulnerable.At the Opéra national de Paris: L'Italienne à Alger (Lindoro), 2000; La Cenerentola (Don Ramiro), 2002; La Dame du lac (Giacomo V), 2010; La Fille du régiment (Tonio), 2012.

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1998 : Enters the Paris Opera Ballet School.2006 : Joins the Paris Opera Corps de Ballet.2010 : Promoted to « Coryphée ».2011 : Promoted to « Sujet ».2013 : Promoted to « Première danseuse ».Valentine Colasante is made an "Étoile" on January 5th 2018, following the performance of Don Quixote (Rudolf Nureyev), a ballet in which she performed the role of Kitri.As part of the Paris Opera Ballet’s official tours, she has performed in Australia (Sydney, 2007), China (Beijing, 2008), Russia (Novosibirsk, 2010), Malaysia (Singapore, 2011), the United States (New York, 2017) and Spain (Madrid, 2019).

Valentine Colasante

1999: Enters the Paris Opera Ballet School.2004: Joins the Paris Opera Corps de Ballet.2009: Promoted to "Coryphée".2010: AROP Dance Prize.2011 : Promoted to "Sujet".2019: Promoted to "Premier danseur".2023: Marc Moreau is named "Danseur Étoile" on March 2nd 2023, following the performance of Ballet impérial (George Balanchine) in which he performed the principal soloist.

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2007 : After winning the First Prize at the CNR (national conservatory) in Nantes, he enters the Paris Opera Ballet School.
2011 : He joins the Paris Opera Corps de ballet.
2014 : Promoted to "Coryphée". Bronze medal at the Varna International Dance competition.
2015 : Promoted to "Sujet". Cercle Carpeaux Prize. AROP Dance Prize. Nominated for the Benois de la Danse Prize.
2016 : Promoted to "Premier danseur".
2017 : Benois de la Danse Prize, "best dancer" category. 2018 : Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe: Arts & Culture.

Following a performance of La Sylphide (Lacotte, after Taglioni) in which he perfoms the role of James on the stage of the Bunka Kaikan in Tokyo (Japan) on March 3rd 2017, he is named "Étoile".As part of the Paris Opera Ballet’s official tours, he has performed in Spain (Madrid/ 2019), the United States (New York/ 2017), Japan (Tokyo/ 2017 and 2020).

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2010: Enters the Paris Opera Ballet School.
2015: Joins the Paris Opera Corps de Ballet.
2017: Promoted to "Coryphée".
2019: Promoted to "Sujet".2021: AROP dance prize award.2024: Promoted to "Premier danseur".

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Born in Germany, Thomas Hengelbrock is a violinist, conductor, researcher, and musical educator. At the heart of his work is an in-depth exploration of the musical text, meaning and content of the works he performs. He is as passionate about bringing forgotten compositions to light as he is about performing great works such as Mendelssohn's Elijah, Haydn's Creation, Beethoven's Missa solemnis, Parsifal and Cavalleria rusticana on period instruments.He also explores contemporary music. In residence at the Château de Fontainebleau with his Balthasar Neumann Choir and Orchestra, of which he is founder and director, Thomas Hengelbrock is also invited by orchestras such as the Vienna and Munich Philharmonics, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestre de Paris, the Orchestre national de France, the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich and the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, with whom he conducted the opening concert of the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg in 2017.In addition to his work as a conductor, Thomas Hengelbrock has directed several productions, including Dido and Aeneas and Don Giovanni, and has collaborated on interdisciplinary projects with actors such as Klaus Maria Brandauer, Johanna Wokalek and Graham Valentine. Deeply committed to artistic transmission, he has been working for many years to give young people privileged access to art and culture, sharing with them his enthusiasm for music.Since the Covid-19 pandemic, he has been particularly committed to the survival of culture and independent musicians in Europe. In 2016, Thomas Hengelbrock was awarded the Herbert von Karajan Music Prize. In September 2024, he was appointed music director of the Orchestre de chambre de Paris.At the Opéra national de Paris: Orphée et Eurydice, 2005, 2008, 2012, 2014, 2018; Idomeneo, 2006, 2009; The Magic Flute, 2008; Iphigénie en Tauride, 2021; Alcina, 2021; Faust, 2022; Simon Boccanegra, 2024.

Trained at the Académie de l'Opéra national de ParisVictoria Sitjà trained as an actor and director at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris, under Luc Bondy and Jean Bellorini, and then in St. Petersburg, where she worked with Lev Dodin. In 2017, she launched the trilogy Nostalgie et Héritage, which brings together her productions of Chekhov's Three Sisters, Lagarce's Juste la fin du monde and Kafka's Lettre au père, presented at the Théâtre Gérard Philipe in Saint-Denis. Her multifaceted career has enriched her approach to the stage, with positions as stage manager, props mistress, translator and rehearsal director, notably for Isabelle Adjani and Amira Casar.She has also worked with internationally renowned directors such as Robert Wilson, Lydia Steier and Deborah Warner. In September 2021, Victoria Sitjà will join the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris, where she will create two workshops for artists in residence: Après la fatigue du jour, a work on Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs, and Looking for Bernstein, a tribute to the illustrious composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. Since then, she has collaborated regularly with the Opéra national de Paris on numerous productions and projects, including this season's children's show Actéon in partnership with the Maîtrise de Radio France.At the Opéra national de Paris (Amphithéâtre Olivier Messiaen): Après la fatigue du jour, 2022; Looking for Bernstein, 2023; Actéon, 2024

A graduate of the Taiwan Teacher Training College (Music Department), Ching-Lien Wu continued her studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique in Lyon, where she was awarded the First Prize in Choral Conducting in 1987. She attended courses and workshops in orchestral conducting with JeanSébastien Béreau, Helmut Rilling, Michael Gielen and Pierre Boulez. 
In 1989, she was appointed Chorus Master at the Nantes Opera and in 1990, Assistant Chorus Master at the Théâtre du Capitole in Toulouse. From 1991 to 2001, Ching-Lien Wu served as Chorus Master at the Opéra National du Rhin in Strasbourg. The work she accomplished there was acclaimed by French and international critics. During this period, she was guest Chorus Master at the operas of Montpellier, Rouen and Shanghai as well as at Radio France for various operatic works and oratorios. In 1996, she was assistant to Norbert Balatsch at the Bayreuth Festival.
From 2001 to 2014, Ching-Lien Wu was Chorus Master of the Grand Théâtre de Genève. In September 2014, she was appointed Chorus Master of the Dutch National Opera in Amsterdam. In 2016, the German magazine Opernwelt awarded the Dutch National Opera Chorus under the direction of Ching-Lien Wu the best Chorus of the Year label. She has also conducted numerous concerts with her own choir «Le Motet de Genève» with the Suisse Romande Orchestra, the Geneva Chamber Orchestra and the Orchestratus Genevensis. She was at the helm
of this vocal ensemble from 2002 to 2012.
Since 1996, she has been invited to give master classes in choral conducting at the CNSM in Lyon. In her native country, she has been responsible for musical studies for several opera productions, including The Barber of Seville, an opera she also staged in Taipei. Ching-Lien Wu was appointed Chorus Master of the Paris Opera in February 2021 and took up her post on 26 April of the same year.

Louis Sady trained in 2015 at the Centre national de formation professionnelle aux techniques du spectacle, a work-study program at the Comédie de Caen, CDN de Normandie-Caen. There he learned the professions of technician, lighting designer and stage manager. In addition to his professional training, he also studied music, specializing in electronic music composition. In 2017, he became a lighting designer, sound designer and stage manager for various theater and opera productions. Since 2020, he has collaborated as lighting designer with Victoria Sitjà and Lucie Mazières on Après la fatigue du jour and Looking for Bernstein for the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris.After designing the lighting for Garance Bonotto's show Pink Machine in 2023, he continues his collaboration with the Compagnie 1% artistique as sound and lighting designer for the show Dégâts des eaux. In 2024, he continues touring with his own musical creation, performed live in the show Paysage(s), directed by Aurélie Édeline. During the 2024-2025 season, Louis Sady will design the lighting for Actéon, directed by Victoria Sitjà, at the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris.At the Opéra national de Paris (Amphithéâtre Olivier Messiaen): Après la fatigue du jour, 2022; In Search of Bernstein, 2023; Actéon, 2024.

With a passion for literature and art history, Lucie Mazières discovered theater at the Université Paris VII, where she graduated. She trained in set and costume design at the Institut d'études théâtrales de la Sorbonne Nouvelle and at the École Duperré with Claire Chavanne and Sylvie Skinazi. In 2019, she assists Alexandre de Dardel in the set design of Stéphane Braunschweig's Oncle Vania at the Théâtre des Nations in Moscow. In the same year, she collaborated with Philippe Quesne on the French Pavilion at the Quadriennale de scénographie in Prague.In 2023, she was dramaturgical assistant and artistic collaborator for Garance Bonotto's Pink Machine (Compagnie 1% artistique) at the Centre dramatique national de Rouen and on tour. She also designed the set for Janice Szczypawka's Des gosses at the Théâtre de la Maison d'Elsa.Since 2020, Lucie Mazières has collaborated with Victoria Sitjà as set and costume designer for Après la fatigue du jour and Looking for Bernstein at the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris. More recently, she designed the sets for Marie Cœur-de-truie by Mathilde Courcol-Rozès and Dégât des eaux by the Compagnie 1% artistique.In the 2024-2025 season, she will design the sets and costumes for bonnes, directed by Louise Herrero, at the Théâtre L'Étoile du Nord and the Théâtre de la Tempête, and, at the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris, the sets and costumes for Actéon (with the Maîtrise de Radio France), directed by Victoria Sitjà, and the sets for L'Isola disabitata, directed by Simon Valastro.At the Opéra national de Paris (Amphithéâtre Olivier Messiaen): Après la fatigue du jour, 2022; In Search of Bernstein, 2023; Actéon, 2024.

Etienne Guiol is a painter and video designer. In 2006, he entered the Émile-Cohl school in Lyon, where he was trained in drawing and animation. Since 2012, he has been working in the field of video creation for theater, opera and monumental projection. Founder of the BK International studio in 2012, he and his team produce video creations for live performances and monumental architecture all over the world (Lyon, Paris, Versailles, Strasbourg, Rouen, Bucharest, Rome, Casablanca, Dubai, Jerusalem...).His stage creations have taken him to some of the world's greatest opera stages (La Scala, Milan; Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow; Opéra national de Paris; Operas de Versailles, Athens, Karlsruhe, Basel, Geneva, Budapest, Muscat, Hong Kong).In 2024, he was part of the set design team for the Opening Ceremonies of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games under the direction of director Thomas Jolly. His work has won several awards: Maria Republica, a creation of the Angers Nantes Opéra, won the prize for best creation in 2016, and Le Coq d'Or, after Rimsky-Korsakov, won the Critics' Prize for best creator of scenic elements in 2014 with set designer Bruno de Lavenère.At the Opéra national de Paris: Cendrillon, 2022; La Vestale, 2024

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