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Paris, France 1875 – Present
The Paris Opera
In 1984, a truncated version of Maurice Ravel’s orchestral piece Boléro was used to accompany a routine by British ice-dancers Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean at the Sarajevo Winter Olympics. The p
Exhibition of the week Theatre Picasso Tate ...
Music was the antidote to stuffy court life that Marie Antoinette craved. Henrietta Bredin explains how the doomed Dauphine reinvigorated the French opera scene
Cultural Crusader
This week’s dream: the Waldorf Astoria glitters again ...
Who Owns Beauty? Bénédicte Savoy (Polity, £25) ...
