Patrick Fournillier

Acclaimed Canadian choreographer Anna-Marie Holmes’s exhilarating production, seen at the American Ballet Theatre and English National Ballet, invades the stage at La Scala with new sets and costumes by Luisa Spinatelli. Filled with action, passion and romance, this swashbuckling comedy, based on 'The Corsair' by Lord Byron, follows a dashing pirate, Conrad (Timofej Andrijashenko), as he journeys across the high seas to save his beautiful harem girl Medora (Nicoletta Manni). An exotic, breathtaking spectacle, and an adventure not to be missed.

A Pierre Jourdan production of Daniel Auber's opera at the Theatre imperial de Compiegne. Patrick Fournillier conducts the Orchestre sinfonietta de Picardie.

"Dracula," featuring music by Wojciech Kilar and choreography by Krzysztof Pastor, quickly became a ballet sensation. The production was specially commissioned by West Australian Ballet and had its world premiere in September 2018 in Perth. Since April 2022, audiences have been able to watch the ballet on the stage of the Polish National Opera.

L’Étoile did much to establish Chabrier as a major force on the Parisian stage and his contemporary Henri Duparc praised him specifically for creating a French comic genre, both funny and musical – described as something of a French Die Meistersinger. The fanciful story is set in an imaginary kingdom and all, naturally, ends well. However, despite the slight plot line L’Étoile is something of a pivotal work, a unique example of French 19th-century light opera, orchestrated with great sophistication and flooded with gossamer wit.