Yahoo

Paris Opera Ballet's only West Coast performance of ‘Red Carpet' is in the Bay Area. Here's why it's worth seeing

Founded during Louis XIV's opulent 17th-century reign and housed in the ornate Palais Garnier, the Paris Opera Ballet embodies Old World glamour. With "Red Carpet," a new work by choreographer Hofesh ...
The Independent

A Paris Opera Ballet étoile on the costs of following his passion

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Marchand, 27, seems a ...
Classic FM

Ralph Fiennes to direct his first opera in Paris’ magnificent Palais Garnier

Actor Ralph Fiennes, who developed a profound love for ballet while filming ‘The White Crow’, will helm a new production of Tchaikovsky’s opera ‘Eugene Onegin’. Fiennes won’t appear on the podium, ...
Daily Mail

Paris Opera drops 'bad boy of ballet' Sergei Polunin after he blasted gay dancers and said women were taking male roles 'because you don't f*** them'

The Paris Opera Ballet has dropped controversial Ukrainian-born dance star Sergei Polunin from a production of 'Swan Lake' after he made a homophobic and sexist rant on social media. The mercurial ...
Classic FM

Paris Opera considering blackface ban after staff pressure to end racism

Paris Opera is having a reckoning with race and diversity, after a quarter of its staff called for an end to “the silence that surrounds racism”. Signed by 400 staff members, the letter also calls for ...
Metro

Paris is for (ballet) lovers – pirouette through the city like a true ballerina

Paris is the city of love, of lights… and of ballet. 20 photos that capture the beauty of ballet in the real world The dance form developed in the 17th century thanks to King Louis XIV who established ...
The Financial Times

Paris Opera Ballet finds freedom in its Tribute to Jerome Robbins

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Even ballet companies are reaching for unlikely costumes this Halloween. Take the Paris Opera Ballet, where the ...
The Financial Times

Paris Opera Ballet strikes disrupt Nureyev’s Raymonda

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. For the past three weeks, the Paris Opera Ballet’s dancers have put on quite the collective display of ...
Harper's Bazaar

Take an online ballet lesson with Dior and a Paris Opera principal dancer

While we all attempt to come to terms with this new normal brought on by the restrictions of the coronavirus pandemic, a number of fashion houses are seeking to entertain and inspire their customers ...
The Guardian

Benjamin Millepied resigns from Paris Opera Ballet

Black Swan choreographer, who took over France’s prestigious ballet company in 2014, has quit for ‘personal reasons’ Star choreographer Benjamin Millepied has announced his resignation from Paris ...
The Independent

Our Man in Paris: Is ballet a form of child abuse?

Is ballet a form of child abuse? The debate is raging in France and, in a minor key, in our own family. Clare, my eight-year-old daughter, has been going to ballet lessons since she was four. Since ...