The Aix-en-Provence opera festival, the Paris Opera and the Comedie Francaise have already been hit by strikes.
Last week, another former City Ballet dancer, Benjamin Millepied, was tapped to run the Paris Opera Ballet.
This lavish retelling of Gaston Leroux's immortal horror tale stars Claude Rains as the masked phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House.
During her career, Bussell has also performed with the New York City Ballet, the Kirov Ballet, Australian Ballet and Paris Opera Ballet.
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Thieves broke into the Apple store behind the Paris Opera at around 21:00 (20:00 GMT) on Monday, three hours after the shop closed.
In 1947, Mr. Balanchine became a guest choreographer with the Paris Opera Ballet Company, and Ms. Tallchief became the first American to perform with the company.
Mr. Hallberg began his study in Phoenix, continued at the Paris Opera Ballet for a year, then studied at ABT and joined its second company in 2000.
She left the Paris Opera Ballet in 1989.
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Where else can you walk past a foreshortened version of the Eiffel Tower, straddling what looks like the Paris Opera, and think to yourself, compared to the pirate ship down the street that looks almost classy?
The brand new W hotel Paris-Opera is on the leading edge of edgy in Paris.
In 2009, Gerard Mortier, the director of the Paris National Opera, will leave France to run the New York City Opera.
Jonathan Shimony, professor of fine arts at the American University of Paris, is an opera aficionado who regularly attends productions in Paris.
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Mortier, whom I visited in Paris this summer, said that the smaller size and budget of the City Opera, relative to that of the Met, would permit him to be more experimental, and that his artistic approach would be quite different from that adopted by Gelb.
Originally, the opera was to have gone on to New York's Lincoln Centre, and thence to Paris.
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