Opéra Bastille

I’ve seen four opera performances at the Bastille:

• Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot with Sharon Sweet, Sergei Larin, Barbara Frittoli, and Robert Lloyd; Georges Pretre, conductor.
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro with Ildebrando d’Arcangelo, Barbara Bonney, Soile Isokoski, Anthony Michaels-Moore, and Charlotte Hellekant; James Conlon, conductor.

• Peter Illyich Tchaikovsky’s La Dame de Pique with Vladmir Galouzine, Hasmik Papian, Irina Bogatcheva; Gennadi Rozhdestvensky, conductor.
• Leos Janacek’s From the House of the Dead with Jerry Hadley and Jose Van Dam; Marc Albrecht, conductor.