
Opéra Royal Château de Versailles 2025-26 Review: Gasparini’s ‘L’Avare’
(Photo: Francesco Gasparini’s “L’Avare” (“The Miser”) is an intermezzo inspired by French playwright Molière’s five-act comedy in prose also titled “L’Avare.” It includes three singers and one mime accompanied by a small ensemble that tells the story of a pathological miser (Old Pancrazio) turned widower with severe paranoia about his box of gold that he buried in his garden being {…}