How to Keep Opera Alive? Start Talent Young and Broaden the Stage.

A youth orchestra program for musicians as young as 8 is part of Paris Opera’s effort to widen access to the art form and ...

When These Dancers Direct Opera, Expect Movement That Leaps From Score to Stage

The choreographers Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber will put their own spin on “Satyagraha” by Philip Glass for its Paris ...

Paris Opera: The Secrets of the New Ballet Competition

For over a century, the Paris Opera Ballet’s internal competition has been a platform for promoting dancers. Abolished last ...

Paris Opera’s Die Walküre is a tangled affair with terrific music — review

Calixto Bieito’s sadistic staging at the Opéra Bastille is rescued by a dream-team cast and conductor Pablo Heras-Casado ...

After 318 Years, a forgotten woman composer's opera finally takes the stage in S.F.

San Francisco's Ars Minerva revives Antonia Bembo's 1707 "Ercole amante," giving the Baroque composer's music its long-delayed world premiere centuries after it was written.
Los Angeles Times

Another Gustavo surprise: Dudamel is leaving his Paris Opera post four years early

That was fast. Gustavo Dudamel announced Thursday morning that he will step down as music director of Paris Opera in July, at the end of his second season — four years before his contract was to ...
WRAL

Is Opera Audience Aging? Not in Paris

PARIS — The Paris Opera usually invites only journalists to the news conferences where it unveils its coming plans. But in January, as it announced a boldly ambitious 2018-19 season, the company ...
Los Angeles Times

Gustavo Dudamel is Paris Opera’s next music director. What does this mean for L.A.?

Gustavo Dudamel will become music director of Paris Opera beginning Aug. 1, the company is expected to announce Friday morning, and Los Angeles will share the conductor with the City of Light for at ...