by MerciSF | 6-05-2020 | Agenda, Music, See All Opera de Paris
Thanks to Opera de Paris, we have access to Bastien et Bastienne”, an opera accessible to young audience. The young Mozart wrote “Bastien et Bastienne” at the age of twelve, already showing his genius in this work overflowing with charm and subtlety....
by MerciSF | 6-05-2020 | Agenda, Dance, See All Opera de Paris
Opera de Paris lets us enjoy A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Balanchine. Numerous choreographers have delved into Shakespeare to find dramatic material for their ballets, beginning with Jean-Georges Noverre, an ardent defender of the “action ballet” and Marius Petipa,...
by MerciSF | 3-04-2020 | Agenda, Music Carmen BizetOperaOpera de Paris
“Carmen will never surrender, born free, free will she die”cries Bizet’s heroine to Don José at the end of the opera. This irrepressible freedom, coupled with a need to live ever more intensely on a knife-edge, is present in Calixto Bieito’s production as in no other....
by MerciSF | 3-04-2020 | Agenda, Dance BalletOpera de ParisSwan Lake
In Swan Lake, Tchaikovsky took up the legend of the immaculate bird to create some of the most beautiful music ever written for ballet. The choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov left their distinguished mark on this story of an impossible love between an earthly...