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The Palais Garnier’s first ever restaurant L’Opéra has just opened its doors. Designed by goth Paris architect Odile Decq (check out this interview with Thierry Ardisson from 1990), [...]

‘Rain’ by the contemporary choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker enters the repertoire of the Paris Opera Ballet, and opens next week. Rooted in an exhilarating minimalist score by [...]

The Opéra National de Paris presents The Flying Dutchman (Le Vaisseau Fantôme), Richard Wagner’s first masterpiece, an opera about the impossibility of living and the possibility of [...]

The Opéra National de Paris presents Eugene Onegin by the Russian composer Tchaikovsky, based on Alexander Pushkin’s tragic novel. Ludovic Tézier plays this mythical operatic figure for the [...]

The renowned choreographer Roland Petit built up a rich body of work, bringing together the most inventive artists of his time, including Picasso, Brassai, Prévert, Cocteau. The Opéra National de [...]

The Opéra National de Paris presents Gioacchino Rossini’s comic opera L’Italienne à Alger at the Palais Garnier. Vivica Genaux leads the dance in Andrei Serban’s joyous [...]

Paying hommage to one of the 20th century’s greatest choreographers, the New Yorker Jerome Robbins, the Paris Opéra Ballet showcases his unique style, the diversity of his repértoire [...]

Jiří Kylian, the Czech choreographer and former artistic director of the Netherlands Dance Theatre, offers the Paris Opera Ballet a new take on one of his works of singular beauty. Kaguyahime is [...]

Contemporary choreographer Angelin Preljocaj explores the founding myth of he who was to become Buddha. Along with composer Bruno Mantovani for the music and visual artist Claude Lévêque (who [...]

Contemporary choreographer Angelin Preljocaj explores the founding myth of he who was to become Buddha. Along with composer Bruno Mantovani for the music and visual artist Claude Lévêque (who [...]