#paris opera house

[the-gilded-chronicles]

Opera Garnier, Paris, France.

August 2024.

Edited with Snapseed

[inthedarktrees]

Paris Opera | Walter Sanders, Life, 1949

[melit0n]

Thinking about Her again

[flea-palace]

mentally i am here

[wanderinginjuly]

[ballet-symphonie]

Have you seen Marianela Nunez's debut clips at POB with Giselle a few weeks back? It's insane... And the clips last year of when she performed La Bayadere too, especially the scarf PDD. It was somehow better technically than what was supposed to be her 'prime years' like in the 2018 ROH recording

Yes, I have seen the clips and my jaw dropped. She's just extraordinary, way she dances is still so jubilant and sublime. Her technique, particularly the stability and consistency of her spinal placement appears as strong as ever. I don't know how much longer she wants or intends to dance (I hope for many more years), but she is such a treasure to have on stage and I'm glad we all can appreciate it.

[artbecome]

I showcased my Palais Garnier drawing recently at an art exhibition hosted by my local engineering society!

It was such a unique experience getting ready for something like this cuz i’ve never shown my art irl and in public before

I said I liked the building as an architect. They don’t know I drew this because I’m a massive Phantom of the Opera phan😂

[behindthemirrorofmusic]

Audrey Hepburn at the Paris Opera

[preppyandpreppy]

[phantomnostalgist]

Spend the Night With the Phantom of the Opera at the Palais Garnier

The Paris Opera is one of the City of Light’s most iconic sites. Now Airbnb is offering the chance to sleep inside the gilded palace that inspired Broadway’s longest-running musical.

omfg. Just saw this article posted... and it's only $40!!! And I am way too broke to even travel to London these days so there's no way I can do it, but bloody hell, the stay includes "A guided tour of the Palais Garnier’s secret areas not usually open to the public, including the underground cistern", and you get to stay overnight at the Palais Garnier.

I assume there are lots of phans in Europe who'll be doing this, and possibly travelling from further afield, and if you can you absolutely should and you should film whatever video you can and share it with all of us, omfg please phandom go stay the night at the Paris Opera for all of us who can't.

(Booking opens March 1, for a Sunday, July 16, 2023 event.)

[shinyfire-0]

The Opéra national de Paris, in collaboration with international artist JR, is taking advantage of restoration work at the Palais Garnier to dress the scaffolding with two successive installations. This initiative follows in the footsteps of JR, who has already metamorphosed iconic sites such as the Louvre and the Palazzo Farnese in Rome.

Act I - L'entrée de la caverne opens in September, inviting the public to discover the façade of the musical and choreographic temple, enhanced by an immense luminous cavern. Artistic and historical references abound, evoking both 19th-century Romanticism and the origins of ballet and opera. The journey takes us back to archaic Greece, where song and dance honored the deities in caves, the forerunners of modern theaters.

[the-gilded-chronicles]

The Grand Foyer of the Opera Garnier, Paris, France

The grand foyer is 154 metres long, 13 metres wide and 18 metres high.

In order to complete its decoration, the Opera’s architect, Charles Garnier collaborated with the painter Paul Baudry(1828-1886) who at the time was in Rome painting replicas of the Sistine Chapel. In its tones of old gold, this vast space was created at the most prestigious level of the theatre close to the first-category boxes. It was intended to be a place to rest, stroll, and mingle with high society.

[inthedarktrees]

Marina Baydarova watching her sister, Tania Baydarova, put on make-up

Paris Opera | Walter Sanders, Life, 1949

[morcocoffe]

Portrait of Christine Daae.

The first art that I drew based on the "Phantom of the Opera". You can really fall in love with the image of Christine from the original novel, I liked how the writer emphasized her seemingly soft, but in fact strength Swedish character. Gaston Leroux compares Christine's eyes to lakes in which you can easily drown. In order to show that the seemingly beautiful and simple can be much deeper than seems, I depicted two types of columns on the background: the columns of the front foyer and the columns of the basement.

P.S. Thanks for the likes to the previous post!

[lucygold95]

Lily de-la-Haye in Opera Garnier.

[tikitania]

Myriam Ould-Braham in POB’s Sleeping Beauty (excerpts)

One of my favorite telegram ballet bloggers is a Russian ballet writer living in Paris, so I get her takes on the POB through a Russian lens. Unlike a lot of Russians, she’s open to neoclassical and contemporary ballet and her knowledge runs deep. You can follow her on TG (Dance Writer’s World.) She recently wrote some informal thoughts about Ould-Braham upon retirement that I feel is worth sharing:

Today is the premiere of my beloved Inez Mackintosh, and I still can’t get my head around writing about Miriam Ould-Brahm’s farewell performance.

In fact, I repeat, she is not “my” ballerina. I personally don’t have enough temperament. But before arriving in France, I simply categorically did not like her, I did not understand why the star was there.

And when I saw her more than once on stage, I understood.

The French public adores her, I think also for her modesty. She is not a media star, she is not always on TV (like some), she does not write memoirs at the age of 20, and she is not active on Instagram. She is focused on work, and apparently on family.

But this is all secondary. The main thing is that her dance is incredibly pure. She won't show us her huge step, because it's not necessary. But instead, it will open your leg into alezgon in such a way that you will regret not recording it in molecules for the textbook. She has beautiful feet, a very strong upper turnout (she holds the same alezgon in the second act of Giselle simply with her heel into the audience), and School with a capital S. Everything is adjusted down to the millimeter. All five are closed. All is clear. Just sit and write a textbook from it. And this is really rare, even at the Opera. Where emotions often run wild. She didn't have many emotions, that's true. But a dance like hers is very rare now. When less is more. When you just want to see a person not with triple 64 fouettés, but who, even getting into a simple arabesque, finds poetry and beauty in it.

I am grateful to fate that she gave me the chance to see this ballerina.