Following acute lower back pain during the dress rehearsal this morning,  Alice Sara Ott is forced to cancel her appearance at the Orchestre National de France concert this evening.

Faure Anniversary 3/3

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

Isn't it fortunate for us that Schumann didn't have one with opera? How many lieder, expressions of his sensitivity and poetic affinities, were thus born in place of the conventions of theater? Le Paradis et la Péri, a miracle of Schumannian atypicality, is a secular oratorio, even if the term seems ill-suited to express the dazzling visions of angels, elves, and paradise lost that inspire this hour and forty minutes of music. Dreamlike music and a dreamlike set led by the future musical director of the National, Philippe Jordan.

Edwin Crossley-Mercer

Events

Upcoming events

Jan 23, 2026

Paradise and the Peri / Philippe Jordan · Orchestre National de France

Past events

Jun 20, 2024

Faure Anniversary 3/3 · Orchestre National de France

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Paradise and the Peri by Schumann

Orchestre National de France

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