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Hercules
4 mai 2024 – Opéra de Massy

David Stern, embracing the multiple aspects of this score with vigor and
and dynamism (...) , delivers a most appealing Hercules, restoring this tragedy to its rightful place in Handel's oeuvre.
Pierre-Damien Houville – Muse Baroque

Concert des 20 ans d’Opera Fuoco
9 Avril 2024 – Théâtre des Champs-Élysées

“An audience of friends, devotees and lovers of unvarnished music-making celebrated this delightful artistic line-up, composed and performed with both debonair grace and lively exaltation (...) All (the soloists) joyful, grateful to the master craftsman for the passion and rigor with which he has guided them all these years. Gathered together in a dazzling finale, aptly chosen from the final scene of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro: a playful and profoundly human moment that transcended the eras (…) A moment of supreme musical truth.”
Jacqueline Thuilleux - Concertclassic
On peut affirmer que depuis sa création, Opera Fuoco a déjà offert à plusieurs générations de chanteurs des débuts sur scène, qui dans de nombreux cas ont marqué le début de leur brillante carrière artistique. (...)
ous ne pouvons que souhaiter bonne chance à ces chanteurs enthousiastes et pleins d’espoir dans le développement de leur carrière judicieusement menée.
Leszek Bernat – Maestro (Pologne)
The musicians accompanied the wonderful soloists with inspiration and delicacy, giving the audience a real treat. Each vocal number ended in thunderous applause!(...) The bows of the 16 singers and 39 orchestra musicians conducted by David Stern were a joyous moment reuniting all participants in this gala concert so enthusiastically received by the audience. In the celebrated Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the magical association of lyric art, the artists’ talent and youth was rightly crowned by a grandiose triumph. Bravo!
Victor Ignatov – Afficha Paris – Moscow (Russia).

Opera Fuoco, vibrant young artist program with period-instrument ensemble which, under the guidance of David Stern, has been pursuing a thriving trajectory since 2003 ...
Pierre-René Serna - Olyrix


L’amor conjugale, Giovanni Simone Mayr
April 2021 - Recording at the Opéra de Massy

On April 24, at the Massy Opera house, David Stern leaves nothing to chance - he will not stop until he gets what he wants, but does so without stress and without disturbing the good mood. [...] He is indeed passionate about this score and about his extremely capable troupe made up of with remarkable soloists.
[…] David Stern sait constituer une distribution. Chantal Santon Jeffery incarne Zeliska, parfaite de souplesse et de délié dans les vocalises. La soprano française est manifestement chez elle dans ce répertoire préromantique. Le jeu
Jacqueline Thuilleux - Concertclassic
The Marriage of Figaro, Mozart
August 2020 – Festival La Grange aux Pianos, Chassignolles


[…] This troupe of young singers, all performing these roles for the first time, charms with their spirit of camaraderie and their earnest commitment.
Jacqueline Thuilleux - Concertclassic

[...] The performers treat us to perfect intonation, lively theatrical expressions and an intimate connection with the audience. All contribute to the opera's fervent vivacity and its touches of humour.

La Nouvelle République
Serse, Handel 
September 2020 – Open dress rehearsal in Levallois prior to Opera Fuoco’s China tour (Beijing, Shenzhen, Nanjing)



Opera Fuoco has once again shown the ambition and extraordinary talent of its young recruits. [...] David Stern's singers were present during every moment of this brilliant performance of Serse destined for a Chinese public - enough to render the French listeners jealous... We can only wish then "bon voyage" and wait for new productions of Opera Fuoco and David Stern, who we know will not hesitate to break the boundaries of traditional repertoire.
Gabriel Slyzite – Crescendo Magazine (Belgique)
The B-minor Mass, J-S Bach
Juin 2019 – BachFest Leipzig



A brilliant B minor Mass [...] eloquently and elegantly delivered.
Roland Dippel – Neue Musikzeitung

Die Stumme Serenade, Korngold
May 2019 – Salle Ravel, Levallois - French premiere


[...] The style and harmonies of Hollywood's lyric and symphonic composer are revealed in this refined orchestration for ten musicians, remarkably interpreted by the Opera Fuoco orchestra under the fiery baton of its founder David Stern.
[...] It would be a shame to let this unique gem go unnoticed and for such a remarkable undertaking (in fact the French premiere of a largely ignored work) to be so short-lived.
Frédéric Norac – Musicologie.org

[...] All this for a work warmly received, undoubtedly destined to remain a rarety, but we can only applaud its revival.

Marc Vignal – Musikzen

It's at the Salle Ravel, that Opera Fuoco let us hear for the first time in France Die Stumme Serenade by Korngold, in a well-conceived production full of vivacity. [...] The cast of very young artists was fresh and full of incredible enthusiasm.

Clément Mariage – Toute la culture

Idomeneo, Mozart
October 2018 – Salle Ravel, Levallois


David Stern inspires the singers with all the necessary impulses, through constant attention to breathing and balance. He keeps the tension of the drama, thanks to the vigor and honed palette he unleashes from his chamber-size orchestra...
With vocal revelations of such a high level, one has to say that Opera Fuoco has surpassed its expectations. 
Mehdi Mahdavi – Opera Magazine

Der Schauspieldirektor, Mozart/Prima la Musica, Salieri 
March 2018 – Salle Ravel, Levallois


“Hopefully this delicious and unpretentious production will see more revivals.
Thierry Guyenne – Opera Magazine

Opera Fuoco a eu la bonne idée de représenter les deux en un seul spectacle, comme à Schönbrunn le 7 février 1786, en remplaçant le texte de Stephanie par un autre concocté pour l’occasion. […] Le succès était au  rendez-vous: David Stern et son orchestre ainsi que, pour ne citer qu’elles, les sopranos Dania El Zein, Axelle Fanyo et Theodora  Raftis, ces deux dernières irrésistibles dans Salieri (pour une fois vainqueur), grâce aussi à une mise en scène radicale dans sa sobriété 

Marc Vignal – Musikzen

[…] Ce fil conducteur bénéficie des atouts indéniables de la compagnie Opera Fuoco, vaillant atelier lyrique de jeunes solistes pourvu d’un orchestre sur instruments d’époque qui sous l’égide de David Stern poursuit son chemin florissant depuis 2003.[…] Sous la battue claire de David Stern au sein de l’excellente acoustique de la Salle Ravel, resplendissent les cinq numéros musicaux du Singspiel ainsi que les arias et ensembles entrecoupés de récitatifs bien menés de l’opera buffa.

Pierre-René Serna – Concertclassic

[…] La compagnie Opera Fuoco a vu passer dans sa troupe de jeunes artistes telles que Lea Desandre et Jennifer Courcier, ou avant elles Vannina Santoni, Clémentine Margaine et Chantal Santon-Jeffery. C’est donc avec un intérêt tout particulier que les amateurs de belles voix viennent observer la nouvelle promotion dans ce duel opposant Mozart à Salieri.[…] Ces jeunes chanteurs mériteront d’être réentendus dans d’autres œuvres: c’est d’ailleurs l’objectif que se fixe Opera Fuoco !

Damien Dutilleul – Olyrix


Richard Löwenherz (Richardus), Telemann 
Mars 2018 – Théâtre de Magdeburg


David Stern did a superb stylistic job with the modern orchestra, to which he knows how to give a palpitating sense of phrasing and spirit of dance, without compromising the roundness and beauty of the sound.
Thierry Guyenne – Opera Magazine

Distant Beloved 
September 2017, Beethovenfest Bonn


The Parisian period-Instrument ensemble Opera Fuoco, under its founder and conductor David Stern, engaged the public in a musically riveting rendition of the fate of three ladies (Velleda, Neris and Marguerite) that did not allow for a moment of ennui. The ensemble's name Fuoco/Fire is veritably its credo. The orchestra, with excellent instrumental soloists is as comfortable with the secco attack as it is with a seductive soundscape.
Bonn General-Anzeiger