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Review: COME FROM AWAY at Château De Karreveld


by Patrick Honoré - August 26, 2024

At the Château De Karreveld, the Bruxellons! Festival presents the first French-language adaptation of the Tony-winning musical Come From Away....

Review: LA REVOLUTION FRANÇAISE at Le 13e Art


by Patrick Honoré - May 20, 2024

The first revival of the Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Shönberg's first musical, the duo who brought us Les Misérables....

Review: CELEBRATING BROADWAY'S LEADING LADIES at Auguste Théâtre


by Patrick Honoré - April 13, 2024

A Showstopping AMT Live Concert at Auguste Théâtre in Paris....

Review: ZAZIE DANS LE METRO at Maison De La Culture d'Amiens


by Patrick Honoré - March 29, 2024

Zazie dans le Métro is a witty, vulgar, funny, and ultimately inventive musical adaption of the surrealist novel by Raymond Queneau and film by Louis Malle....

Review: WOMAN OF THE YEAR at Théâtre Firmin Gémier


by Patrick Honoré - February 18, 2024

Finally, this Kander and Ebb masterpiece has been done in France, with French dialogue and lyrics to boot...

Review: 42ÈME RUE FAIT SON SHOW! at Maison De La Radio


by Patrick Honoré - February 17, 2024

Laurent Valière continues to bring us highlights from the 'New Golden Age for Musicals in France'....

Review: ARTISTE? at Théâtre Le Grand Point Virgule


by Patrick Honoré - January 21, 2024

Is one born an artist, or does one become an artist? Axel Alvarez intimately explores this question in his spectacularl, exuberantly danced, autobiographical one-man song and dance show in Paris....

Review: WEST SIDE STORY at Châtelet


by Patrick Honoré - January 13, 2024

For the 6th time since the beginning of the 80s, West Side Story, the Berstein-Sondheim Laurents masterpiece, was back in Paris for a limited run as part of a French tour before going to Sydney in April. In sync with the release of the Bradley Cooper biopic Maestro, it is great that younger generati...

Review: THE SOUND OF MUSIC at Opéra De Massy


by Patrick Honoré - January 05, 2024

Don't miss this new touring production of The Sound of Music, with dialogues in French and Songs in English....

Review: A FUNNY THING HAPPEND ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at Lido 2


by Patrick Honoré - December 17, 2023

Jean-Luc Choplin continues to bring Sondheim to Paris...

Past Shows

WOZZECK
3/7 - 3/30/2022


Wozzeck is a simple soldier trying to survive in an unjust world. His captain exploits him, he is the subject of scientific experiments conducted by ...

DON GIOVANNI
2/1 - 3/11/2022


Widely regarded as the greatest opera ever composed, Don Giovanni tells of the devious schemes and hijinks of history’s most beguiling scoundrel, Don Juan. Mozart’s ...

Manon
2/5 - 2/26/2022


Anna Netrebko’s dazzling portrayal of the tragic heroine in Laurent Pelly’s new production travels to the Met from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Piotr ...

Body and Soul
1/30 - 2/20/2022


Based on the documentary by Alice Elliott, BODY AND SOUL tells the story of two amazing women who, despite having significant disabilities, find a way ...

L'Élixir d'amour
9/28 - 11/9/2021


Nemorino, un jeune villageois naïf et timide, est amoureux de la belle Adina, riche héritière arrogante et cultivée. Dédaigné par la jeune fille, Nemorino achète ...

Play
10/22 - 11/6/2021

Play
9/28 - 11/6/2021

Le Rouge et le Noir
10/15 - 11/4/2021

Œdipe
9/20 - 10/14/2021


George Enescu’s masterpiece Oedipe is already a musical tour de force, but in the hands of director Àlex Ollé it boasts a visual staging that ...

Iphigénie en Tauride
9/14 - 10/2/2021


Tragedy in four acts...

9/29


Claire McNear, Austin Rogers, Buzzy Cohen and Pam Mueller Thu, NOV12, 6 pm, $20* For over 50 years Jeopardy! has been one of the most ...

Gala
9/24


As with last year, a special Gala will open the Paris Opera Ballet’s new season with two contemporary works and the magnificent Défilé du Ballet. ...

Nonettes
9/18

Œdipe
9/20 - 6/8/2021


George Enescu’s masterpiece Oedipe is already a musical tour de force, but in the hands of director Àlex Ollé it boasts a visual staging that ...

La sylphide
La sylphide
7/1 - 7/16/2017


The ways of the subconscious are infinite when reality becomes too oppressive and torment must be mitigated. Seized by doubts on the eve of his ...

La cenerentola
La cenerentola
6/10 - 7/13/2017


“Before the carnival is over, all Rome will love my Cinderella…” Thus spoke Rossini in 1817, in the aftermath of the disastrous opening night, firmly ...

Bertaud /? bouché /? paul /? valastro


Four dancers from the company are invited to reveal their latest work on the stage of the Palais Garnier. Followed and supervised by Benjamin Millepied, ...

Ensemble de cuivres


Michel Rondeau Fanfare of the Great Hall Jim Parker A Londoner in New York Leonard Bernstein West Side Story Extract Alec Wilder Effie Joins a ...

Robbins /? balanchine /? cherkaoui, jalet


Over and above the six pieces he composed for the ballet, Ravel’s entire body of work is an inexhaustible source of choreographic inspiration, no doubt ...

Merce cunningham /? william forsythe


Three pieces enter the repertoire in an evening devoted to the American school. First presented in 1968, Walkaround Time experiments with the scenic potential of ...

Gala des écoles de danse du xxie siècle


This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Paris Opera Ballet School’s annual performances. They enable the young artists to discover the major works of ...

Szymanowski /? dusapin /? strauss


Karol Szymanowski Concert opening Pascal Dusapin Outscape, concerto pour violoncelle et orchestre Création...

Trompe-la-mort
Trompe-la-mort
3/13 - 4/5/2017


For this new opera, Luca Francesconi has seized upon one of the guiding figures of La Comédie Humaine: Vautrin alias Jacques Collin, alias the Abbot ...

Paris opera ballet school production


This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Paris Opera Ballet School’s annual performances. They enable the young artists to discover the major works of ...

À bras-le-corps
À bras-le-corps
3/16 - 4/2/2017


After 20 dancers for the 20th century the Paris Opera Ballet is adding À bras-le-corps to its repertoire. Long-time friends from their student days at ...

Béatrice et bénédict


From bickering and disputes to wars of words and fleeting glances, Béatrice and Bénédict can hardly bear each other’s presence and yet both constantly seek ...

Tree of codes
Tree of codes
2/3 - 2/23/2017


Created at the 2015 Manchester International Festival for the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet and Company Wayne McGregor, Tree of Codes possesses all the ...

Così fan tutte
Così fan tutte
1/23 - 2/19/2017


"For the moment you love this man. Later you’ll love another; one’s as good as another since all are worthless." despina, Acte I, scène 9 ...

Semperoper ballett, dresden


At once scathing, ironic and burlesque, Impressing the Czar reveals all William Forsythe’s theatrical talent and a precise, virtuoso, deconstructed style alternating disequilibrium with speed ...

Ji?í kylián
Ji?í kylián
11/29 - 12/31/2016

Iphigénie en tauride
Iphigénie en tauride
12/2 - 12/25/2016


In order to fulfil the oracle’s prediction, Iphigénie must kill any stranger landing on the shores of Tauride. Alas, it is Oreste, Iphigénie’s own brother, ...

Ballet school demonstrations
Ballet school demonstrations
12/3 - 12/17/2016

George balanchine
George balanchine
10/22 - 11/15/2016


Three abstract ballets by George Balanchine, brought together in one evening, allow us to appreciate the wealth and creativity of this major 20th century choreographer ...

Joyce didonato


With his beautiful and powerful voice, Joyce DiDonato has accumulated awards such as the Grammy in 2012 for Best Classical Vocal Solo. True diva of ...

Strauss /? beethoven


Richard Strauss Metamorphosen Version Rudolf Leopold pour septuor à cordes Ludwig van Beethoven Sonate à Kreutzer en la majeur, op.?47 Version pour quintette à cordes...

Eliogabalo
Eliogabalo
9/16 - 10/15/2016


"Eliogabalo is languorous, effeminate, lecherous, lascivious; watch, observe, may heaven preserve you." Lenia, Acte I, scène 11 Violent, terrifying and fascinating, Caligula, Nero and Elagabalus ...

Sehgal /? peck /? pite /? forsythe


Two creations enrich the Paris Opera Ballet’s repertoire in the space of an evening devoted to modernity. For the first time, Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite ...

Gala
Gala
9/24


As with last year, a special Gala will open the Paris Opera Ballet’s new season with two contemporary works and the magnificent Défilé du Ballet. ...

William forsythe
William forsythe
7/4 - 7/16/2016


"I like to make uncertain what takes place on stage and to extend what I call the poetry of disappearance. - William Forsythe" A regular ...

Le Corsaire
Le Corsaire
6/21 - 6/25/2016


The English National Ballet, the prestigious London company founded in 1950 by former dancers of the Ballets Russes, has been invited to dance at the ...

Giselle
Giselle
5/27 - 6/14/2016


"Ballets are the dreams of poets taken seriously. - Théophile Gautier" The credits of this emblematic ballet suffice to explain its abiding success: Théophile Gautier, ...

Lear
Lear
5/20 - 6/12/2016


"Where am I? Is it day? I don’t know what to say. Are these hands mine? How I long to know who I am!" - ...

Haydn
Haydn
5/25 - 5/28/2016

Ravel /? saint-saëns


Maurice Ravel Contes de ma mère l’Oye pour deux pianos et deux percussionnistes Camille Saint-Saëns Le Carnaval des animaux...

Maguy marin
Maguy marin
4/25 - 5/3/2016


"Art must question the world and resist. - "Maguy Marin More than 25 years after being invited by Rudolf Nureyev to present Leçons de ténèbres ...

Schumann /? reimann


Robert Schumann Phantasiestücke for cello and piano Aribert Reimann Aria for cello and piano Adagio zum Gedenken an R. Schumann for string quartet Robert Schumann ...

Paris opera ballet school production


Responsible for passing on the French tradition, the Paris Opera Ballet School explores the classical and contemporary repertoire as well as academic or modern styles ...

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