Georges Bigot

January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power.

One summery day in 1890, the photographer Felix Arnaudin settles at the heart of a hamlet in the Landes to take pictures of its inhabitants. Among them, Emile, who lives alone with his three children. By nightfall, at the fireside, Emile tells his story to the photographer: his wife was a fairy. She disappeared.

In Casteljaloux, a town in southwestern France, friendship, drunken nights, heat and tall tales set the pace of daily life. And here, men are Kings of the World. But when Jeannot gets out of prison, he has only one thing in mind: to win back Chantal, the love of his life, who moved in with the village butcher while he was serving time. A Greek tragedy that soon takes on the feel of a Western…

Berlioz’s whimsical and nostalgic take on Shakespeare’s great comedy Much Ado About Nothing graces the stage of Glyndebourne in Laurent Pelly’s astute 2016 production. Italian maestro Antonello Manacorda leads the London Philharmonic in Berlioz’s brilliant score.