An evening at the opera in Paris will add a dash of glamour to any trip to Paris. There are two opera houses which are like chalk and cheese. The 19th century Palais Garnier with its flamboyant Baroque revival architecture and a cosy interior of crimson velvet and gold, and the Opera Bastille, built in the 80s as part of President Mitterrand's legacy of monumental buildings. The architecture has always been the subject of controversy with the interior once described as having “the slick, impersonal look of an airport lounge”.
This season, the opera houses offer some very well-known ballets and operas, as well as some twists on classics.
Get dressed up for a rare occasion, delve into the extravagant costumes, exciting theatrics and lose yourself in the magnificent voices and dancers performing this year.
The Opéra Bastille presents Bizet's opera of the wild and beautiful Carmen....
In this extraordinary production of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, Peter...
Alex Ollé directs this production of Il Trovatore, Verdi's rendition of...
With Lucia di Lammermoor, Gaetano Donizetti provided romantic Italian opera...
Book your tickets for the opera Hamlet, a milestone of opera for which...
For its entry into the Paris Opera repertoire, this work has been entrusted...
This performance of choreographer Maurice Béjart's ballets features The...
The director Claus Guth sets the broken love affair of Rodolfo and Mimi in...
Charles Gounod's adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is one of the...
Choreographer Carolyn Carlson sets her dancers in motion to an original score...
Invited to the Paris Opera for the first time, Deborah Warner directs this...
The Paris Opera Ballet performs two creations by choreographer Georges...
Don't miss choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith's debut a the Paris Opera in March...
Robert Carsen directs this new production of Haendel's Ariodante, a story of...
The Dante Project, inspired by Dante's The Divine Comedy and new to the Paris...
Inspired by the mythical heroes of Abbé Prévost, choreographer Kenneth...