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...Few seasons go by without at least one cancelled performance or two, and this year it was protesting technicians who delayed the opening of the company’s Christmas production at the Opéra Bastille....
...March 27 to July 1; further information here Performance ‘Don Quixote’, Opéra Bastille Rudolf Nureyev’s take on Marius Petipa’s choreography, which brought a distinctly Spanish flavour to the work....
...The cavernous Opéra Bastille may not be the best setting for his spare, concise Firebird and Song of a Wayfarer....
...Thomas Adès’s radical, disturbing The Exterminating Angel, based on Buñuel’s film of a bourgeois party descending into savagery, has its French premiere at the Bastille Opera next month....
...In Balanchine’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, inherited from the Millepied era and dully revived at the Opéra Bastille, too many in the cast looked as though they had no idea why they were dancing this particular...
...He has room to grow. ★★★☆☆ Hartmut Haenchen at Sunday’s La Khovantchina (Opéra Bastille) has done all his growing....
...Wine by the glass, €6-€12 Booking: No reservations Website; Directions Rue de Charonne, a large street that runs from the Opera Bastille to the Pere Lachaise cemetery, is a popular destination for food...
...As if to counterbalance the celebratory events with new chief conductor Gustavo Dudamel, the opening production at the Opéra Bastille of Enescu’s Oedipe is relentlessly grim....
...By Act III’s red-and-gold Hungarian Grand Pas — introduced by a stylish corps de ballet — Gilbert was in full command of the Opéra Bastille, curling and uncurling her wrists with slow, dramatic grandeur...
...Perhaps, for outsiders visiting the Bastille, otherness lies in the bewildering French need to turn even a portrayal of a hip-hop underground gangland into a thing of lavish style and beauty....
...yoghurt, with a very nice view of the July Column and the Opéra....
...In 1989, to mark the bicentenary of Bastille Day, France presented a huge, open-air opera-ballet with a cast of 8,000 people and 100 sheep in the centre of Paris....
...On Bastille Day that year, one of PSG’s violent fans, Maxime Brunerie, tried to assassinate President Jacques Chirac with a rifle....
...Paris’s Bastille theatre opened with the opera back in 1990; this is the third production the house has seen since then....
...When will the Paris Opera Ballet take a hard look at Rudolf Nureyev’s legacy?...
...Why should this opera matter now? The Paris Opera has the resources to answer these questions. What a shame that they chose security above content....
...Who better to stage it for the Paris Opera than Belgian rebel Ivo van Hove? All the more surprising, then, that van Hove’s production is so restrained....
...This weekly routine leaves Philippe free to pursue his other passion — opera. Initially, the layout doesn’t seem conducive to success....
...Meanwhile they commissioned Uruguayan architect Carlos Ott (best known for the Opéra Bastille in Paris) to build them a beach house a 15-minute drive away on the coast near the beach town of José Ignacio...
...Mr Galbraith is one of the UK’s best-known music promoters who represents artists from Marilyn Manson, the shock rocker, to opera singer Andrea Bocelli and younger acts including Bastille and The 1975....
...He makes us hear the link between Meyerbeer, who set the standards for grand opera in Paris to which Verdi was aspiring with this opera, and Wagner, who was not the first to take the concept further....
...Yet the Opéra Bastille was far from full, the consequence of setting top prices for an hour-long work at triple what De Keersmaeker’s own company commands elsewhere in Paris....
...In 1929, when George Balanchine was just 25, the Paris Opera Ballet commissioned him to choreograph The Creatures of Prometheus with a view to hiring him permanently....
Alexei Ratmansky’s painstaking historical reproduction unearths delightfully bright and unusual steps
...He acknowledged as much the first time I met him, around the time that his set design for Tristan und Isolde arrived at Paris’s Bastille Opera more than a decade ago....
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