Ambrogio Maestri has sung the title role in Verdi’s comedy hundreds of times, most recently for the Paris Opera. He’s also ...

The fall season is heating up in Paris with an eclectic variety of cultural events, including museum exhibitions, dance, ...

It is the only such institution in the world to perform in two opera houses: the Opéra Garnier that opened in 1875 and the Opéra Bastille that opened in 1989. Verdi, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Offenbach and ...

She's one of the greatest contralto singers in the world; a French-speaking Canadian opera star who has performed on stage across the planet. Marie-Nicole Lemieux talks to Eve Jackson about wanting ...

Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian Baroque composer and violinist who penned “The Four Seasons,” will be portrayed in “Primavera,” ...

Thomas Ades's The Exterminating Angel From the Royal Opera House, Thomas Ades conducts his opera The Exterminating Angel.

Brigands in search of a new exploit, a Spanish delegation, a massive heist, a not-so-honest cashier, carabinieri who always arrive too late: the ingredients, disguises, twists and turns in ...

Handel's Orlando Handel's Orlando from Welsh National Opera, Wales Millennium Centre. A performance of the Handel's opera ...

After decades of serving guests at sidewalk tables in the charming Belden Place alley, San Francisco’s Café Bastille and B44 restaurants are expected to permanently close next month.

These days, the resplendent Palais Garnier, which is the setting for the tragic "Phantom of the Opera," and Les Grands ... and contain the Place de la Bastille, or the site of the infamous ...

Irene S. Levine is an award-winning travel and lifestyle journalist. Bastille Day, a national holiday in France, commemorates the storming of the Bastille and the beginning of the French Revolution.

The Paris Opera’s director and music director shared some of their favorite local haunts in the orbit of the Palais Garnier and the Opéra Bastille. Over the next 16 months, dancers and singers ...