Götterdämmerung at Paris Opera pales in comparison to the protests happening outside

Students packed the Place de la Bastille in the hours before curtain up — nothing that followed in the dying spasms of ...
Washington Post

It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self

In 19th-century France, the Paris Opéra was a machine. It was there that narrative and music, art and design, science and technology were transformed into cultural spectacle. Those spectacles had ...
Artnet News

Decades-Old Feud Reignites Over Painting Hidden Beneath Chagall’s Paris Opera Ceiling

Arnaud Carayon, descendant of French artist Jules-Eugène Lenepveu, wants to remove the Marc Chagall mural at one Paris opera.
nytimes.com

Paris Opera Ballet

Hugo Marchand, an étoile at Paris Opera Ballet, brings his intensity and some high-wattage friends to New York City Center’s Artists at the Center. By Marina Harss A tall, commanding ballerina, she ...
France 24

Paris opera singers go digital after Covid-19 keeps venues closed

Just five days before they were due to perform before a live audience for the first time in almost two months, the singers of the Paris Opera learned they could not re-open before January as France's ...
Los Angeles Times

Another Gustavo surprise: Dudamel is leaving his Paris Opera post four years early

That was fast. Gustavo Dudamel announced Thursday morning that he will step down as music director of Paris Opera in July, at the end of his second season — four years before his contract was to ...
CNN

‘Athletes and artists’: The men of the Paris Opera Ballet

His photos accentuate the dancers' bodies and showcase their strength and creativity They are “les danseurs,” the professional male ballet dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. They are the epitome of ...