France's Orchestre de l'Opéra de Rouen Normandie has grown beyond its regional operatic roots, offering orchestral concerts and recordings and attracting guest and permanent conductors from around France and beyond. The orchestra consists of just 40 players, typical of ensembles of the Classical period, and in performances of music from earlier periods, it uses gut strings and other historically appropriate equipment. Founder Oswald Sallaberger conducted the orchestra in its 2012 recording debut, featuring music by Fauré and Wagner. Jean-Pierre Haeck led the group in its 2019 recording of Offenbach's Fables de la Fontaine. In 2022, the orchestra, under conductor Hervé Niquet, was heard on a recording of Saint-Saëns' little-known comic opera Phryné.