La Fille de Mme Angot (Mrs Angot's daughter) opera by Lecocq

Madame Angot, a famous fishwife, was the spokeswoman for Parisians during the Revolution. After her death, the Halle merchants brought up her daughter, whom they now want to marry off to a good wigmaker. But with her fiery temper, Clairette takes after her mother. And she prefers the chansonnier Ange Pitou, even though he is wanted by the Directoire police... Heir to Offenbach, Lecocq had settled in Brussels, where he enjoyed a string of successes: it was there that this ambitious comic opera was born, with a subject that is both political and popular, and an inspired and brilliant score. Fictional and historical characters meet in an intrigue that is as funny as it is thrilling.

Richard Brunel reveals the eminently contemporary significance of this seething social fresco, which paints the portrait of a combative youth in search of truth and freedom.

Before the performance

● To find out more: 45 minutes before the start of the performance, meet the theatre's dramaturge for 15 minutes to find out all about the work and the context in which it was created. Free on presentation of the day's ticket.
● To sing: 45 minutes before the performance, join a choir director for a relaxed chat to sing a few arias from the opera you are about to see. Free on presentation of the day's ticket.

Around the show Each opera production is accompanied by "pléiades" that extend and enrich the content of the works on the bill.

● Evenings "La Fille de Mme Angot" : after the performances on 29 September and 05 October
● L'Amour à la française : piano-chant recitals of programmes based on La Fille de Mme Angot, by artists from the Académie de l'Opéra-Comique prepared by Hervé Niquet, on 19, 20 and 21 October
● Masterclasses of the Académie : 27 September by Richard Brunel (stage director), 29 September by Hervé Niquet (conductor), 02 October by Véronique Gens (soprano)