Tagged with Paris
A better new decade?
I wish all who read this a very Happy New Year: I am certain I am not the only one hoping that this new decade will mark a new beginning.
Read the articleTurn-of-the-decade tribulations
My difficult start to a new decade, and the tribulations of the French healthcare system, which is still probably the world's best
Read the articleYvonne, princesse de Bourgogne: Gerard Mortier shuts his bolt pretty triumphantly
Over the past four years, Gerard Mortier has presided over a quiet revolution in style, matched by a major shift in the audience of that venerable Parisian institution
Read the articleI have been know to enjoy Rosenkavalier sometimes
A review of Gerard Mortier's lovely production of Strauss's Rosenkavalier at the Paris Bastille Opera.
Read the articleBenjamin Millepied takes Paris by storm
A review of Benjamin Millepied's ballet *Amoveo*, which was attended by a huge concourse of people from Paris and New York.
Read the articleThe French themselves don't realise how beautifully French Les Troyens is
A quick review of *Les Troyens*, arguably France's most beautiful opera, and rather inexplicably quite misunderstood. Gerard Mortier, director of the Paris Opera, has rightly gone against this trend by making it the highlight of the year's season.
Read the articleChopin: such appropriate music for a ballet
A review of *La Dame aux camellias* directed by Neumaier, Americas most European choreographer.
Read the articleCheap Monday or how to be thin, poor and fashionable
If you want to be fashionable, you can never be too thin (that bit hasn’t changed), or too poor.
Read the articleLa Dame aux Camélias: crusty old fogeys, jumping for joy
A review of Neumeier's *La Dame aux camellias*. I wonder why it took so long for this wonderful ballet piece, created in 1978, to be included in the Opera’s *répertoire*.
Read the articleWould the Social Register types in New York hate Haneke too?
A review of Heneke's *Don Giovanni* at the Palais Garnier, which received an absolutely awful welcome from the pretentious Parisian public.
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