By Marisa C. Hayes The global pandemic, which has closed French theatres indefinitely, delivers an additional economic blow to the Paris Opera Ballet, as it arrives on the heels of the company’s unprecedented winter strike in response to government-proposed retirement reforms. Concurrent performances of Angelin Preljocaj’s Le Parc and Rudolf Nureyev’s Raymonda, as well as
By François Fargue Benjamin Millepied may have prematurely thrown in the towel as the director of the Paris Opera Ballet, but for many Parisians he still retains the image of a good guy with the right intentions. Despite having gone back to the United States and his L.A. Dance Project, he can present a triple
By François Fargue John Cranko’s 1967 Onegin, presented by Paris Opera Ballet at the Garnier in March, is one of the most romantic yet intriguing ballets. Based on the eponymous verse novel by Russian writer Pushkin, the story goes that the young yet world-weary and cynical rich Onegin rejects the love of naïve Tatiana, whom