Born into a family of artists in 1932, Claude Bessy, who devoted her life to dance and trained several generations of dancers ...
On the occasion of the annual event “Everyone to the Opera!”, the Palais Garnier in Paris offers free access to its public spaces on Saturday, May 9, 2026, starting at 10:00 a.m. Note that these free ...
Carmen by Georges Bizet will be presented by Opéra de Montréal this spring. Conducted by Jean-Marie Zeitouni and directed by ...
Russian-born artist Marc Chagall once said that "the dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world." And it is difficult to conceal one’s wonder beneath ...
Winning the war, they say, is easier than winning the peace. Although the Académie Royale de Musique—the Paris Opéra—somehow survived the French Revolution and its bloody aftermath, the first years of ...
Some evenings remind you why opera exists. LUCREZIA BORGIA at Opéra Royal de Wallonie-Liège did exactly that, in a space that ...
“Yesterday I spent the whole day in the studio of a strange painter called Degas,” Parisian man of letters Edmond de Goncourt wrote in his diary in 1874. “Out of all the subjects in modern life he has ...