Since 1984, AFPOB has fostered artistic cooperation between the Opra national de Paris/Paris Opera & Ballet and the creative community in the United States. Discover our work, our programs, and how you can join. Stay up to date with our latest news, browse our events in the United States and in France, and sign up for our newsletter.
For more that 35 years, the American Friends of the Paris Opera & Ballet have been proud to support the Paris Opera & Ballet, to share its many treasures with the American public, and to foster artistic partnerships with stellar American artists, singers, ballet companies, and directors.
For more that 35 years, the American Friends of the Paris Opera & Ballet have been proud to support the Paris Opera & Ballet, to share its many treasures with the American public, and to foster artistic partnerships with stellar American artists, singers, ballet companies, and directors.
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More than ever, we are focusing on the next generation of artists who need our help to preserve and assure the future of our beloved art forms. Based in New York, the American Friends of the Paris Opera & Ballet was incorporated in 1984 in response to then the Director of the Paris Opera Ballet Rudolf Nureyev's request to tour the company in the United States.
Our Board of Directors, Board of Trustees and staff are in charge of the day to day running of the organization. A native of France, Dr. Tournay Flatto moved to the United States in 1987 after attaining her Master's degree from the Universite de Montpellier in Parasitology and Microbiology. Olivia Tournay Flatto, Ph.
The Paris Opera & Ballet was founded in 1669 by Louis XIV as the Acadmie d'Opra. It was then placed under the leadership of Jean-Baptiste Lully. Officially renamed the Acadmie Royale de Musique, it continued to be known more simply as the Opra. Classical ballet arose within the Paris Opera as the Paris Opera Ballet and has remained an integral and important part of the company.
Filing and recording have long been important tools for the Paris Opera & Ballet to grant access to their treasures to a greater public than the one sitting in the theaters.
Launched in 2015, the 3e Scene (Third Stage) aims at promoting different forms of contemporary creation, using digital technology, through original works offering an unusual glimpse into the universe of music and dance, of the Paris Opera, its heritage, its craftsmanship and the architecture of its venues.More than 60 original works are available and free on the Paris Opera website.
Launched in 2015, the 3e Scene (Third Stage) aims at promoting different forms of contemporary creation, using digital technology, through original works offering an unusual glimpse into the universe of music and dance, of the Paris Opera, its heritage, its craftsmanship and the architecture of its venues.More than 60 original works are available and free on the Paris Opera website.
The play that became Verdi's "La Traviata" was, its composer wrote in 1853, "un soggetto dell'epoca": a story of our times. He bristled when censors insisted that the setting of the opera, with its inflammatory tale of. Three hundred and fifty years ago, Louis XIV, the Sun King, established opera academies-patterned after those established in Italy and already copied in Germany and Charles II's England-in France.
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