Romeo and Juliet: Rudolf Nureyev's Ballet at the Opéra Bastille, a Fresh Take on the Classic Myth

The ballet Romeo and Juliet, choreographed by Rudolf Nureyev, is set to be performed at the Opéra Bastille in Paris from ...

Carmen by Bizet at the Bastille Opera: A Legendary Opera Reimagined by Calixto Bieito

The Bastille Opera House will present Carmen by Georges Bizet in a production directed by Calixto Bieito, running from ...
Radio France Internationale

The Night Before the Day: The Opéra Paris Bastille turns 30

The 14th of July 1989 marked the bicentennial of the “Storming of the Bastille” – the dreaded prison in Paris which held political prisoners – and the beginning of the French Revolution. The night ...
The American Spectator

Down With the Bastille (Opéra)

At the tender age of eight, John Gideon Millingen found himself whisked away from his comfortable London home at No. 9, Queen Square, and transplanted to revolutionary Paris, of all places. The year ...
The Advocate

Hometown opera star performs Bastille Day concert in Lafayette

Internationally acclaimed bass-baritone opera singer André Courville returns home to Louisiana to perform an all-French concert celebrating Bastille Day, la Fête Nationale Française, with a ...
The Financial Times

Les Troyens, Opéra de Paris, Bastille — an outstanding production of Berlioz’s opera

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Music news every morning. Narbal and Anna, staff members at a centre for traumatised war victims, discuss the growing love between Didon ...