Founded during Louis XIV's opulent 17th-century reign and housed in the ornate Palais Garnier, the Paris Opera Ballet embodies Old World glamour. With "Red Carpet," a new work by choreographer Hofesh ...

Located on Place de la Bastille in Paris, the Bastille Opera is one of the main venues of the Opéra National de Paris, dedicated to hosting operas and ballet performances year-round. Opened in 1989, ...

Manuel Legris, a former étoile, returns to Paris Opera Ballet to stage his version of “Sylvia.” Manuel Legris was a supreme classicist as a dancer. Of “Sylvia,” he said, “I don’t think it’s ...

With both pieces in this programme, William Forsythe stretches the possibilities of academic dance to the limit. Rearray, a duo created for Sylvie Guillem and Nicolas Le Riche in 2011 for Sadler's ...

Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verde is now playing at the Paris Opera. Performances run through 12 June 2025 at Opéra Bastille. With its wealth of contrasts, the theme of the curse and its unforgettable arias ...

The singers did marvelous work at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, where the director Calixto Bieito’s new staging takes place in a hellish dystopia. By Oussama Zahr A youth orchestra program for ...

Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino’s Amazon Prime Video series “Étoile” is set in the elite ballet worlds of Paris and New York City, and while the two dance companies featured in the series are ...

The last great dance film (vastly more fun than anything from modern Hollywood) was Ballets Russes five years ago, a celebration of old dancers’ nostalgia for golden days in the Thirties and Forties, ...

The famous Paris opera house known as the Opera Garnier is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Emperor Napoleon III commissioned the building in the 1850s but would never see its completion.

IndieWire lifts the curtain on how "Étoile" created fictional ballet companies by mixing real institutions and historical locations. The co-creators told IndieWire this visual association was ...