Paris What's on
8 Feb-4 Sept 2006. The Pompidou Centre is currently displaying heads of all shapes, sizes and materials. Aimed at visitors aged 5-12, the exhibition presents an interactive tte--tte between artworks f...
Paris What's on
2 March-30 June 2006. The city of Paris provides the cinematic backdrop to this exhibition of film hosted by the city council in the newly renovated and enlarged Salle St. Jean in the Htel de Ville. T...
Paris What's on
23 Feb-9 April 2006. The Maison des Cultures du Monde (MCM) is hosting the tenth edition of the Festival of the Imagination celebrating cultural diversity. Participating international artists include...
Paris What's on
16 March-1 April 2006. Contemporary choreographers Saburo Teshigawara, Abou Lagraa and Jiri Kylin present three dance works at the Palais Garnier with the dancers of the Ballet de lOpra. Le Souffle du...
Paris What's on
25 Feb-7 April 2006. Taking in all the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, this festival of jazz, blues, soul and world music is now in its 23rd edition. The international line-up includes Dutch trio Braa...
Paris What's on
15-18 March 2006. La Cit de la Musique hosts a melting pot of jazz sounds with five different concerts over four days. First up is the acclaimed Art Ensemble of Chicago performing a concert entitled G...
Paris What's on
17-22 March 2006. The Paris Salon du Livre, now in its 26th edition, is a Frances most important festival dedicated to books and booklovers. This year the guest of honour is not a country, but a langu...
Paris What's on
23 Nov 2005-6 March 2006. The Centre Pompidou is hosting a tribute to acclaimed American film-maker Martin Scorsese. Intgrale Scorsese presents the entire body of Scorseses work alongside US, British...
Paris What's on
Czanne and Pissarro, 1865-1885.
28 Feb-28 May 2006. The friendship and mutual influence of the two impressionist masters are at the centre of this extensive exhibition at the Muse dOrsay. Caribbean-born Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)...
Paris What's on
21 Jan-28 Feb 2006.
Bob Wilson directs an international cast in the Opra national de Paris production of Puccinis famous opera, Madame Butterfly at Opra Bastille. Composed in 1904, this 3-act traged...
Paris What's on
9 Feb-5 Aug 2006.
The painting of Paradise in the Sala del Maggior Consiglio in the Doges Palace in Venice is one of the worlds largest on canvas, measuring around 8m high by 27m long. It was painte...
Paris What's on
12 Dec 2005-12 Jan 2006. The Opra National de Paris Opra Bastille presents Nureyevs staging of Swan Lake, first performed at the Opra in 1984. The famous ballet is based on an ancient Nordic legend,...
Paris What's on
20 Oct 2005-25 June 2006. Im a chameleon, Lennon used to say, refusing to allow himself to be pigeon-holed by the media. Screen images of the many faces of John Lennon greet the visitor at the entranc...
Paris What's on
18 Dec 2005. The annual All-Star game at the Bercy Palais Omnisports is the highlight of the basketball league calendar. Top players from the French basketball league compete in a one-off all-star gam...
Paris What's on
10-18 Dec 2005. This mini-festival at the Cit de la Musique celebrates the relationship between music and cinema. The concert series opens with ChaplinOperas, with the Intercontemporain Ensemble playi...
Paris What's on
Dreamtime music from Australia.
23-30 Nov 2005. The Cit de la Musique hosts this musical tribute to the aboriginal peoples of Australia in a six-day series of concerts with guests of honour the dancers and musicians of the Yalakun...
Paris What's on
Salon du Cheval at the Paris Expo.
3-11 Dec 2005. The horse show at the Porte de Versailles Expo centre in Paris has become an important annual appointment for horse riding enthusiasts. The nine days are packed with events and activiti...
Paris What's on
18-20 Nov 2005. This years edition of the Eric Bompard Ice-Skating Trophy at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy promises to be nothing short of a run-up to the Winter Olympics 2006 in Turin, with s...
Paris What's on
Tristan und Isolde at the Opra
8 Nov-6 Dec 2005. The Paris Opra Bastille presents Richard Wagners great lyric poem on love and death, Tristan und Isolde (1865), with Peter Sellars directing and set design by video artist Bill Viola...
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28 Sept 2005-9 Jan 2006.
Everyone knows the great French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. But outside the French-speaking world and cinema connoisseur circles, few know that his son was a...
