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Venue: Opéra national de Paris: Opéra Bastille

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Address120 rue de Lyon
75012 Paris
Île-de-France
France
ContainsOpéra national de Paris: Amphithéâtre Olivier Messiaen
Opéra national de Paris: Studio de l'Opéra Bastille
Google maps48° 51' 9.490" N 2° 22' 12.090" E
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ParisLa bohème

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Puccini: La bohème
Domingo Hindoyan; Claus Guth; Opéra national de Paris; Étienne Pluss; Eva Dessecker; Fabrice Kébour; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisConcert d'anniversaire de l'Académie

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Artistes de l'Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisAidaNew production

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Verdi: Aida
Michele Mariotti; Shirin Neshat; Opéra national de Paris; Dmitry Matvienko; Christian Schmidt; Tatyana van Walsum; Felice Ross

ParisUn automne en Bohème

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Suk, Smetana, Dvořák
Musiciens de l'Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisConcert-rencontre

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Musiciens de l'Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris; Artistes des chœurs de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisRacines

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Tchaikovsky, Bernstein, Gershwin
George Balanchine; Christopher Wheeldon; Mthuthuzeli November; Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris; Vello Pähn; Magda Willi; Erdem Moralioglu; Perry Silvey

ParisLa WalkyrieNew production

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Wagner: Die Walküre
Pablo Heras-Casado; Calixto Bieito; Opéra national de Paris; Rebecca Ringst; Ingo Krügler; Michael Bauer; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

ParisTosca

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Puccini: Tosca
Oksana Lyniv; Pierre Audi; Opéra national de Paris; Christof Hetzer; Robby Duiveman; Jean Kalman; Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris
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Thomas Adès’ high-flying Exterminating Angel in Paris

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The French premiere of the British composer's opera will be the undisputed high point of the Grande Boutique's season: a perfect confluence of music, staging and cast.
*****
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A long road to nowhere for Igor at the Bastille

Barrie Kosky's makes a limited impact in his debut at Opéra de Paris, apart from an hallucinogenic Polovtsian Dances.
***11
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Les Indes galantes: with Alarcón, Rameau conquers the Bastille

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The new production of Les Indes galantes at Opéra Bastille is exceptional, from the vocal cast to the choreography by Bintou Dembélé. But the stand-out performance of the evening comes from conductor Leonardo Garcia Alarcón.
*****
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Carthage carnage: Tcherniakov's Trojans flops at the Bastille

Tcherniakov reduces Berlioz' epic to little more than Circle Time therapy, a poor way to mark the composer's anniversary year.
**111
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Lisette Oropesa conquers Paris in Les Huguenots

It's a big night at the Opéra Bastille for their 350th anniversary season; Oropesa's dazzling coloratura stops the show; Andreas Kriegenburg sets the action interestingly in a Star Trek future.
***11
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Gold-plated cast compensates for frosty staging

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Krzysztof Warlikowski’s new Paris staging of Verdi's epic Don Carlos is cold and glassy, but the vocal performances at the Bastille more than compensate.
***11
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Netrebko in majestic form as Tatyana in Paris Onegin

In April, Peter Mattei and Anna Netrebko were starring together in Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera. Less than a month later and they are reunited in Paris in Willy Decker's staging.
***11
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Rites of Spring: Tcherniakov embraces Rimsky

This Paris production of The Snow Maiden proves that director Dmitri Tcherniakov is today's greatest champion of Rimsky-Korsakov's operas. 
****1
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