Don Giovanni prides itself in being a dramma giocoso. Not an easy expression to translate, given how starkly contradictory the terms would appear to be. But dig below the surface and you are plunged into a delightful swirl of ambiguities. Nothing here is set in stone: the libertinage is passionate, but couples meet and part. Fate plays tricks with masks, right up until the final challenge.

Mozart: Don Giovanni

A tragic story of love and society ramped up to fever pitch by Verdi, La Traviata (literally the “the woman who strayed”) is one of the most popular works in the entire history of opera. This new production features Jérémie Rhorer, conducting his ensemble Le Cercle de l’Harmonie, who has decided to perform Verdi’s work - probably for the first time in Paris - in the original 432 Hz tuning in which it was composed and which Verdi consistently proclaimed was its “natural harmony”. The cast assembled here brings together the pick of the talented crop of “thirty-something” French singers which has blossomed in recent seasons. British director Deborah Warner, who is steeped in Shakespearian theatre tradition which is unrivalled for its exploration of the world of passions, treachery and the whole gamut of human situations, stages this production.