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Recipe of the day: Prince Igor

Ingredients of Barrie Kosky's stage production — By Octave
Perspectives

Podcast Le Parc

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By Octave
Perspectives

Draw-me Prince Igor

Episode 20 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Backstage

Recipe of the day: Don Carlo

Ingredients of Krzysztof Warlikowski's stage production — By Octave
Encounters

Edgar Degas between light and shadow

Arnaud des Pallières signs Degas et moi for the 3e Scène — By Octave

Theme - 3e Scène
Perspectives

Draw-me Lear

Episode 19 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Encounters

Pop Pop Poppea...

Jonathan Littell signs The Coronation for the 3e Scène — By Octave
Perspectives

Draw-me Don Carlo

Episode 18 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Les Indes galantes

Relive the show in video! — By Octave
Backstage

Recipe of the day: Les Indes galantes

Ingredients of Clément Cogitore and Bintou Dembélé’s stage production — By Octave
Backstage

Rick Owens signs the costumes for At the Hawk's Well

Photo report with the couturier — By Octave
Perspectives

Draw-me Madama Butterfly

Episode 17 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Draw-me I Puritani

Episode 15 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Draw-me La Traviata

Episode 16 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Backstage

Shanghai 2019

The Opera Ballet on tour — By Octave
Perspectives

Draw-me Don Giovanni

Episode 14 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Encounters

Behind the Scenes with “Tree of Codes”

Encounter with Etoiles Marie-Agnès Gillot and Jérémie Bélingard — By Octave

Theme - Tree of Codes
Perspectives

Draw-me Tosca

Episode 13 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Encounters

Satie the mystic

Les Trois Gnossiennes, from music to dance — By Octave
Perspectives

Draw-me The magic flute

Episode 11 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Draw-me Carmen

Episode 12 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

“Carmen” and the Paris Opera

A photographic retrospective — By Octave

Theme - Carmen
Encounters

The Magic Flute by Robert Carsen

Interview with the stage director — By Octave
Perspectives

Draw-me Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk

Episode 10 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Draw-me Don Pasquale

Episode 09 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Draw-me Otello

Episode 08 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Draw-me Swan Lake

Episode 07 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Les Troyens

Relive the entire show — By Octave
Backstage

Mime in Swan Lake

Episode 01 — By Octave

Series - Dissection of a step
Perspectives

Draw-me Rusalka

Episode 06 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Draw-me Les Troyens

Episode 05 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Draw-me Il Primo Omicidio

Episode 04 — By Octave

Series - Draw-me
Perspectives

Karl Paquette

Étoile and star — By Octave
Perspectives

René Jacobs' playlist

Il Primo Omicidio — By Octave

Theme - Il Primo Omicidio
Perspectives

Tribute to Jerome Robbins

Relive the entire show — By Octave
Encounters

The volcano's daughter

La Cenerentola by Guillaume Gallienne — By Octave
Backstage

Captivating quietude: A Suite of Dances by Jerome Robbins

Episode 03 — By Octave

Series - Dissection of a step
Backstage

Olympia in La Traviata

Episode 01 — By Octave

Series - A production remembered
Backstage

A breath of freedom

In rehearsal with the Martha Graham Dance Company — By Octave
Perspectives

Picasso and dance

Exhibition at the Palais Garnier — By Octave
Perspectives

Octave's summer playlist

Music — By Octave
Backstage

Colas' variation: a balance between humour and virtuosity

Episode 08 — By Octave

Series - Dissection of a step
Encounters

A female tribe

Interview with Hofesh Shechter — By Octave
Perspectives

Frôlons with James Thierrée

Reportage in the costume workshops — By Octave
Perspectives

Octave's spring playlist

Listening — By Octave
Backstage

The mirror pas-de-deux from Onegin or the dream of an impossible love

Episode 07 — By Octave

Series - Dissection of a step
350 years

Special evening at the Palais Garnier

Presentation of the Paris Opera's 2018/2019 anniversary season — By Octave
Perspectives

Octave's winter playlist

Music — By Octave
Encounters

Handel at the peak of his art

Interview with William Christie — By Octave
Perspectives

Octave’s holiday season playlist

Music — By Octave
Backstage

Kitri’s variation: between folklore and seduction

Episode 06 — By Octave

Series - Dissection of a step
Backstage

Constructing Don Carlos

Behind the scenes with Krzysztof Warlikowski — By Octave
Encounters

Life’s incessant motion

In rehearsal with Grand Miroir, the new creation from Saburō Teshigawara — By Octave
Backstage

The Emperor's March

La Clemenza di Tito at the Palais Garnier — By Octave
Perspectives

Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky cycle

Enjoy the full-length performance — By Octave

Theme - Philippe Jordan
Perspectives

Autumn's playlist by Octave

— By Octave
Backstage

Dreams of other worlds

A report from the costume workshops for La Sylphide — By Octave
Backstage

The Scottish Pas de deux from La Sylphide

Episode 05 — By Octave

Series - Dissection of a step
Encounters

An eruption in the making

La Cenerentola by Eric Ruf — By Octave
Perspectives

Bob Wilson’s theatre of light

A visual retrospective of his work at the Paris Opera — By Octave
Backstage

Drumming Live enters the Paris Opera Ballet’s repertoire

A photo reportage — By Octave
Perspectives

Balanchine and the Paris Opera

a Photo retrospective — By Octave
Backstage

Guillaume Gallienne directs La Cenerentola

In rehearsal — By Octave
Backstage

Jerome Robbins' jazzy accents

Episode 04 — By Octave

Series - Dissection of a step
Encounters

The Paris Opera pays tribute to Yvette Chauviré

3/3 — By Octave

Theme - The Paris Opera pays tribute to Yvette Chauviré
Backstage

A trip through the sets of The Snowmaiden

Video 360 ° — By Octave
Encounters

The Paris Opera pays tribute to Yvette Chauviré

2/3 — By Octave

Theme - The Paris Opera pays tribute to Yvette Chauviré
Encounters

The Paris Opera pays tribute to Yvette Chauviré

1/3 — By Octave

Theme - The Paris Opera pays tribute to Yvette Chauviré
Perspectives

Podcast Merce Cunningham / William Forsythe

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By Octave
Perspectives

Balzac in motion

Trompe-la-Mort Round Table — By Octave

Theme - Trompe-la-Mort
Encounters

Rencontre avec Hugo Marchand

Le nouveau danseur Étoile du ballet de l’Opéra de Paris répond à nos questions en live ! — By Octave
Backstage

In celebration of Spring

The head-dresses for The Snow Maiden — By Octave
Perspectives

“A clasic Wozzeck”

Christoph Marthaler’s production through the eyes of the press — By Octave
Perspectives

Podcast Les Fêtes d'Hébé

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique — By Octave
Backstage

A dramaturgy awash with colour

Haute Couture on stage — By Octave
Perspectives

Berg, Boulez, Barrault, 1963

First Production of Wozzeck at the Paris Opera — By Octave
Backstage

Dancing with words

Backstage with Cosi fan tutte — By Octave
Encounters

Live-chat with Josua Hoffalt

The Paris Opera Ballet Étoile answers your questions! — By Octave
Backstage

L’entrechat Balanchine

Episode 02 — By Octave

Series - Dissection of a step
Perspectives

A French touch at the New York City Ballet

A tribute to Violette Verdy — By Octave
Encounters

Anja Harteros sings Tosca

Portfolio — By Octave
Perspectives

Arts and performance

A fresh look at season 15/16 — By Octave
Perspectives

The life of the House

A fresh look at season 15/16 — By Octave
Perspectives

Schönberg, Verdi, Wagner and Berlioz: the commitment to cycles

A fresh look at season 15/16 — By Octave
Perspectives

The great debuts

A fresh look at season 15/16 — By Octave
Backstage

La Traviata’s Chorus

Spotlight on the Paris Opera Chorus — By Octave
Encounters

Live-chat Giselle

Ask Mathieu Ganio your question ! — By Octave
Encounters

Live-chat

Avec les artistes de Maguy Marin — By Octave
Encounters

« Iolanta takes a growing place in my heart »

Sonya Yoncheva answers your questions ! — By Octave
Encounters

Live-chat

Marion Barbeau et Marine Ganio répondent à vos questions — By Octave
Encounters

The Barber of Seville hand-to-hand

Interview with Lawrence Brownlee and Pretty Yende — By Octave
Perspectives

To Pierre Boulez

Homage from the Paris Opera — By Octave
Perspectives

Giselle and the Paris Opera

Fellow travellers — By Octave
Encounters

Live-chat with Marie-Agnès Gillot

The Paris Opera Ballet Étoile answers your questions! — By Octave
Perspectives

Discovery of Arnold Schönberg

— By Octave
Perspectives

Verklärte Nacht, Op.4 de Arnold Schönberg

Extract from Verklärte Nacht (La nuit transfigurée) by Arnold Schönberg — By Octave

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