FULL LA GRANDE AFFABULATION (Geoffroy Jourdain, Benjamin Lazar) Paris 2026

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: LA GRANDE AFFABULATION  
• Composer: Geoffroy Jourdain, Benjamin Lazar  
• Libretto:  Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Opéra Comique, Paris, France  
• Recorded: 16.05.2025
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers:
• Conductor: Geoffroy Jourdain  
• Orchestra: Orchestra Les Cris de Paris  
• Chorus: Maîtrise Populaire de l'Opéra Comique  
• Chorus Master: Clara Brenier  
• Choreographer: Gudrun Skamletz  
• Stage Director: Benjamin Lazar   
• Stage Designer: Adeline Caron  
• Costume Designer: Adeline Caron  
• Lighting Designer: Christophe Naillet  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: France TV, OperaVision  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  This is a 21st-century urban legend. The story goes that one night, some children left home without telling their parents, on a quest known only to them. They had taken food, costumes, trestles, and songs. At their stops, they told each other, through music, the story in which they were becoming the heroes. This grand musical tale weaves the narrative of this initiatory journey.

  “I became a fabulous opera.” – Arthur Rimbaud

  For the choirboys of the Opéra-Comique, aged 12 to 23, Geoffroy Jourdain and Benjamin Lazar have created a vibrant and colorful show, where the spirit of the “fable in music” from the early days of opera blends with that of processions and popular festivals. Our young performers could not have better guides in the Baroque repertoire, the birthplace of so many forms of union between poetry and music, between dance and song.

  In this journey, they travel through different eras and also gather other music, modern and contemporary, which accompanies their mysterious quest.

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