Au Printemps in Paris
The two department stores Au Printemps and the Galeries Lafayette are both on the same street, Boulevard Haussmann. They are both in large historic buildings with Art Deco cupolas. And Read More …
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Galeries Lafayette in Paris
Most of you are too young to remember this, but back in the twentieth century it was customary for department stores to consist of — departments. If you were looking Read More …
Don Pasquale at the Opéra Garnier
Donizetti’s Don Pasquale is a funny opera that is full of lovely music and also serves as a timely reminder to all us older men that we shouldn’t get any Read More …
How to Become Parisian in One Hour?
The Théâtre des Nouveautés (Theater of Novelties or News or Innovations) is one of the many theaters along the Grands Boulevards in Paris. Most of these theaters specialize in contemporary Read More …
Händel’s Julius Caesar at the Opéra Garnier
The opera Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) by Georg Friedrich Händel takes place in Egypt in the year 48 B.C. and has to do with Caesar’s Egyptian war and his love Read More …
Opera Library and Museum in Paris
The library-museum in the Opéra Garnier is one of the public sites of the French National Library (Bibliothèque National de France or BnF). It is located in the Rotonde de Read More …
The painter Gustave Moreau (1826-1898)
Even for those of us who are not particularly fascinated by Symbolist painting in general or Gustave Moreau in particular, his house in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, now the Read More …
Musée de la Vie Romantique
This museum is about The Romantic Life, but not “romantic” in the sense of people falling in love and giving each other flowers. Rather it is about a group of Read More …