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Opera

La Finta giardiniera

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

MC93 Bobigny
from 24 March to 01 April 2026
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Opera

Tosca

Giacomo Puccini

Opéra Bastille
from 12 March to 18 April 2026
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Ballet

Romeo and Juliet

Rudolf Nureyev

Opéra Bastille
from 02 April to 12 May 2026
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Life at the Opera

  • Love until to death - Rehearsing Romeo and Juliet
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    Love until to death - Rehearsing Romeo and Juliet

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  • Satyagraha: the true/false story
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    Draw-me Romeo and Juliet

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  • TOSCA: Behind the love, the great story?
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    TOSCA: Behind the love, the great story?

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  • Revisiting the imagery of ballet
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    Revisiting the imagery of ballet

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  • Romeo and Juliet : the true/false story
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    Romeo and Juliet : the true/false story

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  • Rusalka: the true/false story
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    Rusalka: the true/false story

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  • The suspended bed of Rusalka
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    The suspended bed of Rusalka

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  • Draw-me Tosca
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Love until to death - Rehearsing Romeo and Juliet

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4:27 min

Love until to death - Rehearsing Romeo and Juliet

By Antony Desvaux

On the occasion of the revival of Rudolf Nureyev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet at the Opéra Bastille, Hannah O’Neill and Milo Avêque discuss their work in the rehearsal studio.

Alongside their rehearsal coach Florence Clerc, the Étoile and her partner detail the technical and artistic challenges of a ballet they are both performing for the first time. Milo Avêque highlights the physical intensity required to portray Romeo’s passion, while Hannah O’Neill discusses the delicate balance Juliette must strike between grace and innocence.

Finally, they address the cinematic aspect of Nureyev’s production and the pivotal dramatic role played by Prokofiev’s music, which carries a story in which lovers remain devoted to one another even unto death.

Romeo and Juliet

Ballet

Romeo and Juliet

Rudolf Nureyev

Opéra Bastille
from 02 Apr to 12 May 2026

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© Photography by Alex Apt / Image of Shamel Pitts

Satyagraha: the true/false story

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Satyagraha: the true/false story

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Both an Indian philosophy and a movement of 20th-century political history. Can you untangle this true/false synopsis of Philip Glass’ Satyagraha?  

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Satyagraha

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Satyagraha

Philip Glass

Palais Garnier
from 10 Apr to 03 May 2026

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Draw-me Romeo and Juliet

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1:25 min

Draw-me Romeo and Juliet

By Octave

In this production created for the Opera Ballet in 1984, Rudolf Nureyev opted for powerful dramatization. Splendour and violence, truculence and beauty mingle, rekindling the passion of Shakespeare’s drama. Scrupulously adhering to Prokofiev’s score, itself very close to the play, the choreographer produced a version of Romeo and Juliet in which “the young boy becomes a man” opposite a passionate Juliet who, barely out of childhood, also tragically enters womanhood. Their love cannot be openly declared, as their respective families, the Montagues and the Capulets, are locked into an ancestral feud... Inspired by the Italian Renaissance, the sumptuous sets and costumes by Ezio Frigerio and Mauro Pagano transport us to a painstakingly recreated Verona.  

Romeo and Juliet

Ballet

Romeo and Juliet

Rudolf Noureev

Opéra Bastille
from 10 Jun to 10 Jul 2021

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TOSCA: Behind the love, the great story?

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1:52 min

TOSCA: Behind the love, the great story?

By Octave

Did you know that the plot of Tosca is set against the backdrop of a piece of Italian history?

Tosca

Opera

Tosca

Giacomo Puccini

Opéra Bastille
from 12 Mar to 18 Apr 2026

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Revisiting the imagery of ballet

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Étude in rehearsal

5:15 min

Revisiting the imagery of ballet

By Antony Desvaux

For the Impressions show at the Palais Garnier, Marcos Morau creates Étude for the Paris Opera Ballet. 

The Spanish choreographer draws inspiration from elements of the world of classical dance, such as tiaras, tutus, and flowers during curtain calls, but revisits them in a new light. Marcos Morau explains how the different moments that lead from the studio to the stage, such as warm-ups, barre work, exercises in the middle, then backstage, are used, sometimes not in the usual order, to explore the imagery specific to the world of ballet. 

Finally, Marcos Morau discusses his work in the studio with the Opera dancers.
 

Impressions

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Impressions

Morgann Runacre-Temple, Jessica‎ Wright / Marcos Morau

Palais Garnier
from 11 to 28 Mar 2026

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Romeo and Juliet : the true/false story

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Romeo and Juliet : the true/false story

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Romeo and Juliet

Ballet

Romeo and Juliet

Rudolf Nureyev

Opéra Bastille
from 02 Apr to 12 May 2026

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Rusalka: the true/false story

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Rusalka: the true/false story

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An enchanted lake under the moon, some fantastic creatures, unfaithfulness. Will you untangle this complex synopsis of Rusalka? You’re up!  

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Rusalka

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Rusalka

Antonín Dvořák

Opéra Bastille
from 02 to 20 May 2026

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The suspended bed of Rusalka

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A production remembered

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The suspended bed of Rusalka

By Cyril Pesenti

Have you ever dreamed of immersing yourself in the legend of the mermaid? Wait no longer, Rusalka is returning to the stage of the Opéra Bastille. Between reality and supernatural, Michael Levine’s sets magnificently embody the spellbinding music of Antonín Dvořák. Alain Duret, deputy director of the Bastille’s stage equipment department, reveals the secrets of a particularly magical component of the set: the suspended bed.

“At the beginning of the final act, when Rusalka is doomed to wander as a ghost after being betrayed by the prince, the witch Ježibaba appears on a mysterious suspended bed. She reveals to Rusalka the means to bring an end to her suffering: if she wants to save herself, she must kill the Prince.

In order not to reveal the presence of the suspended set piece until the very last moment, we had to come up with an ingenious mechanism. Everything (the bed, chairs, bedside tables, duvet cover, roses, lamps…) is bolted to a steel structure capable of supporting a significant payload. So as to retain a degree of lightness, the external trim of this metallic frame was made of wood and composite materials. Indeed, we mustn’t forget that this set piece is going to be moving: it advances progressively from the far reaches of the stage by way of a rolling system. With a view to suggesting the levitation of the fixed components, the entire frontal section of the structure is covered in black velvet. As a result, the entire set piece seems to blend completely into the dark and sombre atmosphere of the stage.    

À l’envers du décor, escalier permettant à la chanteuse de se placer.
À l’envers du décor, escalier permettant à la chanteuse de se placer. © Elena Bauer / OnP

The rear part of this great wall is organised so that a spiral staircase supported by a steel structure can be attached there. At the desired moment, with the help of a set technician, Ježibaba climbs the steps and positions herself in the box. The funny thing is, we have the impression that she is really lying in the bed, when in fact, she is really standing with her head propped against a pillow to simulate a lying position. When the aria is over, we help Ježibaba climb back down and we close the door to the box.

© Elena Bauer / OnP

We can then release the set’s locks and, with the help of two stagehands manually operate the wheel that makes the bed and the other components rotate. This is how, during her second appearance, revealed by the light escaping from the trap from which Ježibaba reappears, the bed is now turned horizontally!”

Rusalka

Opera

Rusalka

Antonín Dvořák

Opéra Bastille
from 29 Jan to 13 Feb 2019

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1:19 min

Draw-me Tosca

By Matthieu Pajot

A Pasolinian landscape over which hovers the overwhelming image of a cross, symbol of the collusion between political and religious oppression: Pierre Audi’s reading divests the work of its ceremonial dress and strips bare its perfectly regulated tragic mechanism, the cogwheels of its drama which, from the raising of the curtain to the tragic downfall, operate with pitiless efficiency.

With its transition from theatre to opera, Victorien Sardou’s play becomes the very symbol of operatic art. Is that because Tosca portrays a prima donna whose jealousy has weighty consequences for the destiny of her lover? The music overflows the drama to reveal the sensuality of its immortal heroine.

Tosca

Opera

Tosca

Giacomo Puccini

Opéra Bastille
from 16 May to 23 Jun 2019

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Draw-me Rusalka

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1:23 min

Draw-me Rusalka

By Matthieu Pajot

Poetry and sensuality take pride of place in this production of Rusalka, created for the Paris Opera in 2001.

In taking up the well-known subject of the siren, Dvořák wrote a bewitching score that plunges the spectator into a mysterious and disturbing universe, magnificently represented in Robert Carsen’s production.

Reality and the supernatural, earth and water, humans and ethereal beings are juxtaposed in this almost sublimely dreamlike opera. However, the meeting between two worlds is never without consequences: if the dreamworld nymph Rusalka sacrifices her voice, the only too human Prince loses his life.

Rusalka

Opera

Rusalka

Antonín Dvořák

Opéra Bastille
from 29 Jan to 13 Feb 2019

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