Semyon Bychkov to succeed Gustavo Dudamel as Paris Opera music director

Semyon Bychkov will succeed Gustavo Dudamel as music director of the Paris Opera starting in August 2028, the company's ...

Paris Opera Takes On a Noted Conductor, Aiming to Expand Its Symphonic Offerings

Semyon Bychkov will be the musical director for a period when the opera’s performance spaces are under renovation. It’s a ...
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A Paris opera house created under French Emperor Napoleon III celebrates 150 years

The famous Paris opera house known as the Opera Garnier is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. Emperor Napoleon III commissioned the building in the 1850s but would never see its completion.
Classical Music

Semyon Bychkov named music director of Opéra national de Paris

Conductor Semyon Bychkov will take up the post of Paris Opera music director for an initial four-year term from 2028 ...
The New York Times

Paris Opera

The singers did marvelous work at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, where the director Calixto Bieito’s new staging takes place in a hellish dystopia. By Oussama Zahr A youth orchestra program for ...
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Madelaine Brockway throws ‘wedding of the century’ at Paris Opera House with private Maroon 5 concert

Just seven months ago, fans declared Sofia Richie’s wedding to husband Elliot Grainge as the wedding of the year. Now, it seems that a new supreme has risen with what the internet is calling the ...
New York Post

Fire erupts near famed Paris opera house

A massive fire broke out in a building near a famous opera house in Paris on Saturday, sending large clouds of smoke rising into the air. The blaze erupted along Boulevard des Capucines, near the ...
East Bay Times

Miss Manners: We were yelled at in a Paris opera house. Were we in the wrong?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: One of the highlights of our trip to Paris was an opera performance at the Palais Garnier. The opera, “Médée” by Cherubini, is in excess of four hours, with two brief intermissions.