Program notes
Far more goes on at the Opéra Bastille than meets the eye... From music to marketing, passion to politics, filmmaker Richard Copans explores the controlled chaos that is the world of opera.
On Paris' Place de la Bastille sits one of the world's most legendary opera houses. What is at the heart of this incredible institution? What makes the artists and technicians work so passionately? And what are the politics, organizational plans, and marketing strategies that make it all possible? Copans brings the inner workings of the opera out from under the warm glow of stage lighting and into the cold light of day, painting an honest portrait of a community at work, a community striving daily to imagine the age and the world to come.