News and Updates

We have something to look forward to!

Paris Opera Ballet Étoile Hannah O’Neill will make a role debut as Tatiana.

Such a short notice (sobbing). Mathieu has been Étoile since 2004.

Congratulations!

America’s first major prima ballerina was born on 24th January 1925.

Like the prior season, the company features rarely-seen ballet pieces.

New Étoile started dancing at a small ballet school in Macedonia. Congratulations!

Paquita and Play will run until 4th January, hopefully!

Cancellations are due to “ strike involving some staff at the Paris Opera.”

Now opera is also affected.

Toi toi toi Ludmila! She has been Étoile since 2012.

Dancers’ strike seems to expand.

Alexander Ekman’s Play was performed at the Palais Garnier as scheduled.

Two nights in a row.

Opéra national de Paris apologies and offers refunds.

The Quadrilles-to-Coryphées promotion was the only rank kept in the Concours de Promotion.

Either one of the theatres will be open while the other is closed for work.

And primotions, joiners and adieus.

As the 2024-2025 season kicks off, some moves of male principal-level dancers caught my attention -- all somehow connected to Tamara Rojo.

The 24-year-old Diop is the first black person to reach the rank of Etoile in the Paris Opera Ballet history.