Concert de rentrée | Guillaume Tourniaire, Orchestre Dijon Bourgogne & Chœur de l’Opéra de Dijon

Whatever the contradictions of the "long nineteenth century", between scientism and romantic enchantment, it was undoubtedly a golden age for European opera. The literary finesse of Massenet, attentive to myths and legends; the rhythmic and solar vivacity of Bizet, who fascinated Nietzsche; the effusive melancholy of Donizetti, who would have made trees and rocks sing; the power of Verista drama brought to triumph by Mascagni; the passionate universality captured by Puccini in La Boheme, his homage to artistic life; Gounod's struggle with the metaphysical scope of Faust; the unparalleled breadth and tragedy of Verdian drama... It is the very universe concentrated on the stage, and in the words of Balzac : "What an opera is a man's head! Event organised as part of the Heritage Days, with the support of the City of Dijon.