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3 Sept-15 Oct 2006. Held in spectacular venues throughout the Ile-de-France region, including the Chteau de Fontainebleau, the Abbaye des Vaux de Cernay and the Eglise Notre Dame de Taverny, this annu...
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9 Sept-16 Oct 2006. LOpra national de Paris presents Gaetano Donizettis masterpiece Lucia di Lammermoor (1835), a tragic opera in three acts based on Walter Scotts gothic novel The Bride of Lammermoor...
Paris What's on
30 Aug-10 Sept 2006. The Cit de la Musique hosts this annual jazz fest celebrating Afro-American history and music in the Parc de la Villette in the northeast of Paris. The programme opens with a conc...
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25-26 Aug 2006. Radiohead, Morissey and Beck headline this fourth edition of the two-day rock festival held in the beautiful Saint Cloud park on the western outskirts of Paris. Three stages host aroun...
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21 Aug-10 Sept 2006. Commedia dellarte, burlesque and grotesque comedy are on offer in the Arnes de Montmartre itinerant theatre festival taking place in venues all over Paris. The festival of moveabl...
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Summer arts festival in Paris.
14 July-13 Aug 2006. Pariss international summer arts festival of music, dance, performance, theatre and cinema begins on Bastille Day with the inauguration of Le Grande Rpertoire exhibition in the na...
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Around the World in Eighty Days.
8 June-17 Sept 2006. Published in 1872, Jules Vernes classic Around the World in Eighty Days is given a contemporary twist in this adaptation by Sbastien Azzopardi and Sacha Danino at the Thtre du Luc...
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Auguste Rodin and Eugne Carrire.
11 July-1 Oct 2006. The Muse dOrsay hosts this comparative exhibition of around 100 very different works by French sculptor and artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and his lesser-known contemporary, Eugn...
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29 June-3 Sept 2006. Now in its 20th edition, the Festival de Musique en l'Ile, held each summer in the churches of St-Germain-des-Prs and St-Louis-en-lIle, features church music performed by choirs a...
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International dance festival, Paris.
3-23 July 2006. Alvin Aileys acclaimed American Dance Theatre company is featured in this years summer festival of international contemporary and classical dance in the historic garden and courtyard o...
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10 June-30 July 2006. The 13th edition of the annual jazz festival in the Parc Floral de Paris presents a total of 32 concerts featuring international jazz and blues musicians every weekend over summe...
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17 June-4 July 2006. Pina Bausch and her famous Tanztheater Wuppertal return to the Thtre de la Ville with Rough Cut, created during the German dance companys residence in Seoul in 2005. Set to a cros...
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27 June-11 July 2006. The fourth edition of the Paris Cinema Festival offers over 450 films in 20 venues around the French capital. Directed by Costa-Gavras, the programme includes an official selecti...
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30 May-15 July 2006. Gaetano Donizettis comic opera in two acts, LElisir damore, is presented by the Opra national de Paris in a new production directed by Edward Gardner. First performed in Milan in...
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27 May-4 June 2006. The worlds most celebrated bass viol player and a major international figure in early music, Jordi Savall, presents a series of concerts at Pariss Cit de la Musique. The first conc...
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French Open Tennis Championship.
28 May-11 June 2006. Hosted by the Roland-Garros stadium, the French Open is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, attracting around 500 top international players annually. Star players inclu...
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18-21 May 2006. This is the 29th edition of the annual springtime exhibition of Pariss antiquarians and art gallery owners, when members of the Carr Rive Gauche association put their most important di...
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28 April-8 May 2006. Divided into Leisure, Home and Garden, and Life Abroad, the annual Foire de Paris at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles covers 220,000 sqm of exhibition space with around 3,000 ex...
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9-15 May 2006. The Palais Garnier hosts six performances by the famed contemporary Dance Theatre of the Netherlands, featuring choreography by Jiri Kylian, Paul Lightfoot and Sol Len. Established in 1...
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25-29 April 2006. The successful 2002 production DAvant returns to Thtre de la Ville for five performances with a polyglot quartet composed of Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Damien Jalet from the famous Bal...
