Opéra National de Paris.
120 rue de Lyon
75 576 Paris Cedex 12

King Roger

by Karol Szymanowski

Libretto by Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz
Performed in Polish
Time ; From the 18th of June to the 2nd of July 200
Venue : Opéra Bastille.

Demofoonte

By Niccolo Jommelli (1714-1774)

Neapolitan opera in three acts (1770)
Libretto by Pietro Metastasio (Ut Orpheus Edizioni, Bologna)
Perfomed in Italian
Time : From the 13rd to the 21st of June 2009
Venue : Palais Garnier.

Am Anfang (Au commencement)

By Anselm Kiefer

The finger of an instrumentalist pressing the string, the painful squeak of the bow, these are the sounds, drawn from a violin solo, that have inspired guest artist Anselm Kiefer’s installation. A performance? A mise en espace? A truly original work to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Opéra Bastille. For the German artist, born into the ruins of war in 1945, this acoustic material differs little from sand, earth, soot, transposing into sound the chalk, hair and dust ever-present in his theatre of memory, obsessively urging us not to forget and to reject barbarism. This beginning or commencement– as Am Anfang may be translated – as always with this major artist, is part of History. A project that faces the eternal ebb and flow of the sea, trembling buildings, showers of ashes, the anxiety of man at the top of the Richter scale. An invitation to meditation.

Time : From the 7th to the 14th of July 2009.
Venue: Opéra Bastille.

Cornelius Meister - La passion de Simone
Symphony concert

Time : The 17th of June 2009.
Venue : Opéra Bastille. 

Christoph von Dohnanyi
Symphony concert

Time: 25th of June 2009
Venue : Salle Pleyel

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