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3 unusual facts about Isabelle Aboulker


Alexander Pushkin

Additionally, ballets and cantatas, as well as innumerable songs have been set to Pushkin's verse (including even his French-language poems, in Isabelle Aboulker's song cycle "Caprice étrange").

Isabelle Aboulker

To celebrate the second centenary of Honoré de Balzac’s birth that same year she was commissioned by the Grand Theatre in Tours to write the comic opera Monsieur de Balzac fait son theatre.

Among her work for adults are two operas based on plays by Eugène Ionesco and settings of poems by Guillevic and Charles Cros.



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