Located on Place de la Bastille in Paris, the Bastille Opera is one of the main venues of the Opéra National de Paris, dedicated to hosting operas and ballet performances year-round. Opened in 1989, ...

Semyon Bychkov will be the musical director for a period when the opera’s performance spaces are under renovation. It’s a ...

BIG’s design for the 45,000-square-meter structure unfolds as a series of terraced landscapes rising from the water’s edge.

From January 7 to 10, 2026, the Opéra Bastille is inviting children to experience a short, enchanting dance and musical tale—an ideal show for the little ones, set in a dreamy paper-world landscape.

Siegfried by Richard Wagner comes to Opéra Bastille next year. As part of the RING Festival 2026, performances will run from 10 to 19 November 2026. With Siegfried, staged in Calixto Bieito’s new ...

In ‘Stellidaura’s Revenge,’ soprano Hannah De Priest and tenor Richard Pittsinger are quickly establishing their presence in Boston’s early music landscape “La Stellidaura vendicante,” the original ...

Dan Smith of Bastille. CREDIT: Bonnie Britain/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images Bastille have announced plans to play two massive headline shows in Yorkshire next year. READ MORE: Bastille’s ...

Stanislas de Barbeyrac (Siegmund) and Elza van den Heever (Sieglinde) in 'Die Walküre,' at the Opéra Bastille, November 8, 2025. HERWIG PRAMMER/ONP The stage is overtaken by a vast mesh structure, ...

Architecture studio BIG has unveiled designs for a waterfront home for Hamburg State Opera, which will be enclosed by a series of interconnected terraces. Set to be built on a peninsula within the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Much hair is pulled in the course of this staging of Wagner’s Die Walküre. Hunding pulls Sieglinde’s hair.

Bastille Days will be back in Cathedral Square Park Downtown from Thursday, July 9 to Sunday, July 12, 2026, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Storm the Bastille run/walk. Bastille Days will be ...

At the tender age of eight, John Gideon Millingen found himself whisked away from his comfortable London home at No. 9, Queen Square, and transplanted to revolutionary Paris, of all places. The year ...