Discover the professions of the Paris Opera

Name: Discover the professions of the Paris Opera
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Opéra Bastille

Discover the work of opera through a series of reports in the workshops of the Opéra national de Paris.

Saturday 17 September 2022, 10:00, 13:30Passed

Conditions

Free entry within the limits of places available. Access to the Studio Bastille by the large external staircase, on the Place de la Bastille.

Sewing, painting, sculpture, but also tapestry or composite materials: the workshops of the Opéra national de Paris are numerous! Step behind the scenes in the making of sets and stage costumes and follow Giselle’s journey through the backdrop of Act 1 between the Ateliers Berthier painting workshops and the Palais Garnier stage.

About the location

Opéra Bastille

2 place de la Bastille, 75012 Paris

Île-de-France

The Opéra Bastille, inaugurated on July 13, 1989, is the work of Uruguayan-Canadian architect Carlos Ott. Its architecture is marked by the transparency of the facades and by the use of identical materials inside and outside the building. With its 2,713 seats in homogeneous acoustics, its unique stage equipment, its integrated sets, costumes and accessories workshops, its work and rehearsal rooms, the Opéra Bastille is a large modern theatre, a production tool unique in the world. The Opera has cutting-edge craftsmanship and technology. This blend of innovations and ancestral know-how is visible in the workshops of the Opéra Bastille. In order for the show to take place, hundreds of people join forces and pool their know-how throughout the year. It is a real city that comes alive: technicians of stage engineering, sculptors and painters, seamstresses and hairdressers work alongside singers, dancers and musicians.