Opéra Bastille

Notre-Dame de Paris

Jun 30 – Jul 16, 2014

Created in 1965, Roland Petit's first production for the Opera Ballet, Notre Dame de Paris,is an intense work. With his highly developed sense of theatricality...

La Bohème

Mar 15 – Jul 14, 2014

There is perhaps nothing more straightforward than La Bohème: a young man and a young woman meet, fall in love, are separated by life and...

Nicolas Le Riche

Jul 9

The Paris Opera celebrates Nicolas Le Riche and honours his departure. After more than thirty years at the Opera, Nicolas Le Riche shares memories of...

Robbins / Ratmansky

Jun 19 – Jul 7, 2014

L'Incoronazione di Poppea

Jun 7 – Jun 30, 2014

Neither Fortune nor Virtue can vie with Love who, with a mere wave of the hand, can transform the world: such is the message conveyed...

La Traviata

Jun 2 – Jun 20, 2014

“Poor Mariette Duplessis is dead... the first woman I ever loved, and now she's in goodness knows which cemetery, abandoned to the maggots of the...

Wagner / Strauss / Berlioz

Jun 11

Richard Wagner Tannha?user (overture) Richard Strauss Lieder Hector Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, op. 14...

Balanchine / Millepied

May 10 – Jun 8, 2014

I Capuleti e i Montecchi

Apr 24 – May 23, 2014

When he adapted Romeo and Juliette, the librettist Felice Romani chose to go back in time past Shakespeare, to the Italian origins of the legend....

Orphée et Eurydice

May 3 – May 21, 2014

Orphée et Eurydice is one of Pina Bausch’s major works. The choreographer brings flesh and blood to Gluck’s score –here conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock—while opting...

Schoenberg / Schubert

May 16

Arnold Schoenberg Verklärte Nacht, for strings Franz Schubert Symphony N° 8 in C major (The Great), D 944...

String Quartet, Hang et Danse

May 11

Concert au Palais Garnier

May 7

Tristan und Isolde

Apr 8 – May 4, 2014

In 1857 Wagner took a pause from composing the Ring, abandoning Siegfried in the depths of the forest to embark upon another quest. The composer...

Works for piano and wind instruments

Apr 27

Ludwig Thuille Sextet for piano and wind quintet, op. 6 Ludwig Van Beethoven Quintet for piano and winds, op. 16...

L’Italiana in Algeri

Mar 31 – Apr 23, 2014

One of Rossini’s most exquisite successes, from a composer who was just 21 at the time: an opera buffa which has retained all its charm...

Young Dancers

Apr 18 – Apr 22, 2014

The Young Dancers performances allow the upcoming generation to shine on stage in extracts from both classical works and today's repertoire. An opportunity for the...

Jean-Philippe Rameau

Apr 16

Die Zauberflöte

Mar 11 – Apr 15, 2014

We will never know how death revealed itself to Mozart and when and in what form it dispatched its messengers to him. Nevertheless, all the...

French music

Apr 13

Jean Cras Quintet with harp Jean Françaix String trio André Jolivet Chant de Linos Claude Debussy Sonata for flute, viola and harp Albert Roussel Sérénade...

Paris Opera Ballet School Show

Apr 5 – Apr 10, 2014

Echoing the Tricentennial celebrated in 2013, the school of dance continues its journey through the history of the choreographic style of the French school of...

Pianos et percussions

Mar 30

John Cage Third construction Maurice Ohana Étude d’interprétation n° 11 « Sons confondus » ; Étude d’interprétation n° 12 « Imitations-Dialogues » George Crumb Music...

Don Giovanni

Mar 22 – Mar 29, 2014

Widely regarded as the greatest opera ever composed, Don Giovanni tells of the devious schemes and hijinks of history’s most beguiling scoundrel, Don Juan. Mozart’s...

Moussorgski / Rachmaninov / Chostakovitch

Mar 19

Modeste Moussorgski Night on the Bare Mountain Serguei Rachmaninov Piano concerto N° 3 Dimitri Chostakovitch Symphony N° 6 in B minor, op. 54...

Cullberg / de Mille

Feb 21 – Mar 13, 2014

Pioneers of 20th century dance, Agnes de Mille and Birgit Cullberg both ventured along new pathways in order to translate the passions and inner conflicts...

Madama Butterfly

Feb 14 – Mar 12, 2014

Undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and most comprehensive portraits of a woman in the history of opera—but also one of the most terrible, since...

Onéguine

Feb 3 – Mar 5, 2014

With Onéguine, John Cranko has conceived one of the key ballets of the repertoire. Inspired by Alexander Pushkin's verse-novel, he has streamlined the story and...

Italian string music

Mar 2

Hugo Wolf Italian Serenade Ottorino Respighi String quartet in D major Giacomo Puccini Crisantemi Ottorino Respighi Il Tramonto...

La Fanciulla del West

Feb 1 – Feb 28, 2014

"In those strange days, people coming from God knows where, joined forces in that far Western land, and, according to the rude custom of the...

Alcina

Jan 25 – Feb 12, 2014

"From Alcina you will receive the sceptre and the power and you will be the happiest of mortals. But you will soon become no more...

Werther

Jan 19 – Feb 12, 2014

In Massenet's masterpiece, from the moment the moonlight idyll is revealed and then shattered, the tears never cease to flow. "My entire being weeps", says...

Britten / Delius / Brahms

Jan 18

Benjamin Britten Sinfonia da Requiem Frederick Delius Violin concerto Johannes Brahms Symphony n° 3...

The rape of Lucretia

Jan 14 – Jan 18, 2014

The Bolshoi Ballet

Jan 4 – Jan 10, 2014

Following their last tour in 2011, the prestigious Bolshoi Theatre Ballet has again been invited to perform at the Palais Garnier. They return this season...

La Belle au bois dormant

Dec 4 – Jan 4, 2014

The “Ballet of ballets” as Rudolf Nureyev described it, Sleeping Beauty remains one of the jewels in the heritage of dance. First performed in 1890...

Nouvel an à l'Opéra Bastille - La Belle au bois dormant

Dec 31

The “Ballet of ballets” as Rudolf Nureyev described it, Sleeping Beauty remains one of the jewels in the heritage of dance. First performed in 1890...

Nouvel an au Palais Garnier - Le Parc

Dec 31

Like a stroll through the labyrinths of love, Le Parc follows its course through the codes of seduction, from initial encounters to physical love and...

Gustav Mahler

Dec 30

GUSTAV MAHLER Symphony N° 2 in C minor "Resurrection"...

Le Parc

Dec 7 – Dec 30, 2013

Like a stroll through the labyrinths of love, Le Parc follows its course through the codes of seduction, from initial encounters to physical love and...

La Clemenza di Tito

Nov 27 – Dec 23, 2013

Présentation Mozart's last opera, along with Die Zauberflöteand the Requiem, is his testament, the testament of an aesthete but also that of a humanist. From...

American and cuban music for brass quintet

Dec 22

Leonard Bernstein West Side Story George Gershwin Porgy and Bess Suite Daniel Schnyder Brass Quintet Paquito d’Rivera Four Songs for Brass Quintet...

Paris Opera Ballet School Demonstrations Show

Dec 8 – Dec 21, 2013

As an echo to the Tricentenary celebrations of 2013, the Paris Opera Ballet School pursues its journey through the stylistic history of the French School....

I Puritani

Nov 25 – Dec 19, 2013

At a time when the whole of Europe was obsessed by Romanticism, what nation did not dream of Italy? Goethe's Mignon sings of the Sicilian...

Varese / Prokofiev / Tchaikovski

Dec 18

Edgar Varese Intégrales Serguei Prokofiev Romeo and Juliette, Suites N° 1 and N° 2 (excerpts) Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski Symphony N° 4 in F minor, op....

Lutoslawski / Ravel / Debussy

Dec 16

Elektra

Oct 27 – Dec 1, 2013

The time taken by a slow sunset. This is Hofmannsthal's stage direction for the performance of Elektra, a one-act tragedy of unimaginable darkness and violence....

In memoriam Elliott Carter (1908-2012)

Dec 1

Eight Pieces for Four Timpani (Improvisation- Adagio-Canaries) Steep Steps Due Duetti Two Fragments Quintet for clarinet and string quartet Con leggerezza pensosa A Six Letter...

Aida

Oct 10 – Nov 16, 2013

With its fascination for Egypt, 19th century Europe seems to have embarked on an intoxicating voyage down the Nile, marvelling at the colours of that...

Francis Poulenc and friends

Nov 15

Teshigawara / Brown / Kylián

Oct 31 – Nov 14, 2013

United in their quest for beauty, three contemporary choreographers each bring the stage alive according to their own sensibility to enhance the aesthetics of their...

Così fan tutte

Oct 22 – Nov 13, 2013

Thus do they all or The School for Lovers. When Lorenzo da Ponte is the teacher, the lesson is harsh and cruel, even if Mozart...

Webern / Pintscher / Stravinsky

Oct 30

Post-romanticism and modernity

Oct 13

Franz Schreker Der Wind Erwin Schulhoff Concertino Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel, op. 28 Hanns Eisler 14 ways to describe rain, op. 70 Leoš Janácek Concertino...

La Dame aux Camélias

Sep 21 – Oct 10, 2013

Franz Liszt confessed that he was unable to think of Marie Duplessis, the muse of Alexandre Dumas who inspired his Dame aux camélias, without shedding...

Lucia di Lammermoor

Sep 7 – Oct 9, 2013

In Paris in 1835, Donizetti could not hope to compete against the wave of enthusiasm for I Puritani by his rival Bellini. His Marino Faliero,...

Alceste

Sep 12 – Oct 7, 2013

Simplicity, truth and naturalness: these, according to Gluck, are the eternal attributes of beauty and the ultimate goal to which he aspired. "Alceste must not...

Vec Makropulos

Sep 16 – Oct 2, 2013

"Who would want to live for eternity?" asks Emilia Marty as she is about to die, brandishing the formula for the elixir that has allowed...

La Sylphide

Jun 22 – Jul 15, 2013

Presented by Monica Loughman Ballet with principle dancers of the Mariinksky Theatre and San Jose Ballet. Artistic Director Monica Loughman is bringing two of the...

Signes

Jul 3 – Jul 15, 2013

The origins of this work lie in artist Olivier Debré’s desire to translate into a series of paintings the feeling elicited in him by a...

MESSIAEN / Mozart / Nielsen

Jun 27

Olivier Messiaen Un sourire Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Concerto n° 20 in D minor, K. 466 Carl Nielsen Symphony n° 4 The Inextinguishable, op. 29...

Siegfried

Jun 23

It is Brünnhilde herself who, at the end of The Valkyrie, names the son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, the long-awaited hero Siegfried. The second day...

Die Walküre

Jun 19

Nothing, in the bitingly cruel prelude that is The Rhinegold, could foreshadow the blazing miracle of The Walkyrie whose role within the Ring cycle is...

Das Rheingold

Jun 18

A simple E flat major chord, austere and unchanging, inaudible up until now but no doubt present since all eternity. Scarcely perceptible at first, the...

Giulio Cesare

May 23 – Jun 18, 2013

William Shakespeare, in the early years of the 17th century, had been unable to resist bringing to the stage the character of Cleopatra, the bewitching...

GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG

May 21 – Jun 16, 2013

At last the dusk approaches: it has been heralded, promised almost, since The Rhine Gold, and we have been awaiting it with impatience. The whole...

Giuseppe Verdi

Jun 10

Béjart/Nijinski/Robbins/ Cherkaoui, Jalet

May 2 – Jun 3, 2013

For choreographers, ballet music has never ceased to be a source of inexhaustible inspiration offering a plethora of new readings and personal interpretations. If The...

La Gioconda

May 2 – May 31, 2013

In his preface to Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, one of his rare prose plays, Victor Hugo says that drama has to be both noble and...

Dimitri Chostakovitch / Gustav Mahler

May 28

Gustav Mahler Symphony n° 10 (Adagio) Dimitri Shostakovitch Symphony n° 13 in B flat minor Babi Yar, op. 113...

Gustav Mahler's third symphony

Apr 9 – May 12, 2013

The entire edifice of John Neumeier’s work is built around a profound musical sensibility. However, the choreographer, in his constant questioning of the human condition,...

Hänsel und Gretel

Apr 14 – May 6, 2013

Hansel and Gretel are the children of a poor broomstick maker and his wife. One day they are playing so boisterously that they neglect their...