Palais Garnier

And that gave him a chance to shift a lot of things around, including turning all of the dialogue into sung through recits.

And when it opened there, it was the opera that was synonymous with the Palais Garnier.

It was the work at the sort of high point of French grand opera, which even in a way, by 1869, had certainly the high watermark.

It kind of ran out of steam, really.

So very different setup in 1869 versus 1859, musically and culturally.

And as we record this, last week I happened to be in Paris to perform in a concert.

And before the rehearsal there, I had sometimes to go to the Palais Garnier.

I'd actually never been to the Palais Garnier before.

Some people, they might want to talk about you about i don't know their daughters or whatever so and that's when you need to be aware of as i said earlier general knowledge if you serve person in first class at air france france the passenger expect more than just a service he might want to have a discussion And for the image of the company, it's nice to have a flight attendant who can respond nicely or have some general knowledge, as I said.

So you've performed at the Palais Garnier Opera at galas hosted by Chanel and Dior, worked inside now Louis Vuitton after your career with the Ballet Opera and Berluti.

Very few people have seen both sides, I think, of this world.

So I think you'd be the best person, place to tell us why does everything inside luxury or a luxury maison feel so curated and choreographed?

The disruption extended to the performing arts sector as well.

The Paris Opera shuttered the Palais Garnier and the Opera Bastille, citing security difficulties and concerns for staff and audiences.

Organizers of the prestigious Art Basile Paris Fair also canceled its weekend program.

and the protests continue to ripple.

my foot every now and then in case you move to the left foot when it does get jarring.

So the ballet premiered at the Palais Garnier in June 1910 and it was a critical success in France.

However, Russian audiences were less impressed because they found the music dissonant and difficult to connect with.

So there's a...

In Florida, I always wonder if I can make a couple of palm trees work at my house, and I know that I want to retire to someplace on the water.

In Paris, I wrote that I wanted to plant some veggies so that I could eat a salad with every meal and find more hand-thrown pottery and add more detail to everything from trim on pillows to window boxes on every window for flowers and to make a point to go to our local opera house after visiting Palais Garnier.

And then the Cotswolds made me want to plant more native flowers and buy an old oil painting, potentially reconsider tea.

I love my daily coffee, but I can occasionally get behind some tea and appreciate my walk-in closet even more than I already do.

I've never been here before.

No, I don't think any of us have been to the Paris Opera House

before.

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So it's partially to modernize, but it's also to provide work for the workers and to turn Paris into this gargantuan building site.

So these wonderful wide boulevards, the monumental train stations, the opera house of Palais Garnier.

This is all under the Second Empire, and it transforms Paris into one of today's most celebrated urban landscapes.

But the idea at the time, his critics say, oh, this is great because when people rise up against you, these wide boulevards, it'll be easy to shoot people.