Whats on in Paris, musuems, events, food and wine.

1, place du Châtelet, Paris 75001
www.chatelet-theatre.com
Tel: 01 40 28 28 40

• La Grande-Duchesse de Gerolstein, by Jacques Offenbach
• Angels in America, by Peter Eotvos

Opera National de Paris Garnier (Great experience with the newly renovated Foyer)

1 place de l'Opéra, Paris 75009
www.opera-de-paris.fr
Tel: 0 892 89 90 90

• Katia Kabanove, by Leos Janacek (in Czech)
• Hercules, by Georg Friedrich Handel

Opera National de Paris Bastille

2bis, place de la Bastille, Paris 75012
www.opera-de-paris.fr
Tel: 0 892 89 90 90

• Saint Francois D’Assise, by Olivier Messiaen
• Ariane a Naxos, by Richard Strauss (Sung in German)
• Dialogues des Carmelites, by Francis Pouenc
• Il Trovatore, by Giuseppe Verdi
• Le Barbier de Seville, by Cioacchino Rossini
• Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), by Mozart - From 24th January, 2005

New Tours in Paris

Wine Tastings - Rive Droite

Wine Tastings - Rive Guache

Saturday Morning Market

Airport Transfers

Shared Shuttle
From 18.50€

Private Car
From 85.00€

Theatre des Champs-Elysees

• La Cenerentola (Cinderella), by Gioacchino Rossini

Ballet de l’Opera National de Paris Bastille

• Sleeping Beauty

Festival des Inrockuptibles
November 4 – November 10 (Every year)

Love modern bands like The Hives, Coldplay, The Pernice Brothers and Clem Snide? Those are just a few of the stellar international bands that have played at this premiere weeklong music festival held in the city of light. Held at various venues throughout the city, the fest features the best of new music in many genres. It is organized each year by Les Inrockuptibles, a smart French music magazine. Rock, jazz, pop, folk, hip hop, it's all here. Ticket costs vary depending on venue and performer.

Casse Noisette (Nutcracker Suite)
October 20, 2004 to March 1, 2005

Théâtre Comédia
4 boulevard de Strasbourg, Paris 01 42 72 00 33
75010 PARIS
www.ecla-theatre.com

One of the most famous and best-loved ballets of all time, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker takes us into an enchanting, magical world, and features such unforgettable pieces as the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. A great show for all the family. By Hoffmann and Tchaïkovsky Staging and choreography by Daniel Thuann

If you are bring children to Paris, this may be an event for them to enjoy.

Fashion

Sylvie Vartan, revue de mode
October 16, 2004 - February 27, 2005

Musée Galliera
10 avenue Pierre 1er de Serbie, Paris 75016
75016 PARIS

Information: 01 56 52 86 00

Cost: Expo+museum - 6€

Sylvie Vartan was a 60’s icon, and some of the greatest designers such as Yves Saint Laurent, Dior and Jean-Paul Gaultier have designed things for her. The Galliéra Museum has decided to show us the journey of this icon of French chanson with a collection of 80 of her outfits, some films, photographs, magazine covers, posters and record covers.

January Sales in Paris:
6th January - 28th February, 2005

Suggestion:

• You might like to go to the great fashion show at Galeries Lafayette which is free. It is held on Tuesday all year long at 11:00 am. You need to phone for a reservation first

Tel: 01 42 82 36 40

• Le Printemps also has a free fashion show on Tuesdays at 10:00 am.

Tel: 01 42 82 57 87

Lunch at the roof-top terraces of Galeries Lafayette and Printemps. Great views. La Samaritaine near the Pont Neuf has a roof with a wonderful observation platform and it is free to go up there. One of the best views of Paris. Also two restaurants on the 5th Floor with great views.

In Winter the sales are from 6th January to 28th February. As the Sales progress reductions increase from 30%-50%, sometimes 70%, over the fixed six-week sale period. This applies to all the Department Stores as:
Galeries Lafayette, Printemps, Samarataine, Au Bon Marché or BHV as well as the shops along the Champs-Elysées, rue de Rivoli, rue de Rennes or shopping malls such as Place d'Italie. You will find plenty of great bargains.

In addition to the Sale prices, almost all retailers can provide you with a "détaxe" form, to claim a refund on the sales tax , 12% at Galeries Lafayette and Printemps, if purchases exceed 175 Euros. This form is presented to customs upon leaving France, and you should expect your refund within about six weeks.

The “factory outlets” around Paris also have Sales at the same time.

• Marques Avenue, 9 Quai du Chatelier, L’Ile Saint-Denis 93450. Esay to get to by metro and then a short bus ride
Tel: 01.42.43.70 20
Designer brands for men, women and children
(Phone for more details)

• La Vallee Village, near Disneyland and can be reached by metro.
Designer names

Major Exhibitions

Ukiyoe - Images of the Fluctuating World
September 30, 2004 - January 3, 2005

Wed-Mon 10:00 am-8:00 pm (until 10:00 pm Wed)
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, Paris 75008

Information: 01 44 13 17 17

Cost: €9

Ukiyoe translates to "fluctuating world." Some 500 works including prints, paintings, and illustrated books created between the end of 1600 through around 1850. Subjects included landscapes, courtesans, the Kabuki theater, and sometimes eroticism. These coloroful etchings were said to have been made for wrapping Japanese ceramics for export, originally to Holland, but French painters such as Manet and Monet and others discovered them and used them for inspiration. Artists include Haronobu, Utamaro, Sharaku, Hokusai, and others

Turner - Whistler – Monet: Impressionist Visions
15 October, 2004 - 17 January, 2005

Wed-Mon 10 am-8 pm (until 10 pm Wed)
Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais
3 Avenue du Général Eisenhower, Paris 75008
Information: 01 44 13 17 17

Cost: €10

When Monet fled to London in 1871 after the bloody events of the Commune Uprising in 1870, he discovered the works of Turner and Whistler. This major exhibition traces the history of their artistic connections.

Albert Marquet (1875-1947): Vues of Paris – and of the Ile de France
October 20, 2004 - January 23, 2005

10:00 am to 6:00 pm (Not Mon)
Musée Carnavalet
23 rue de Sévigné, Paris 75003
Métro: Saint–Paul or Chemin Vert.
Information.: 01 44 59 58 58
Cost: Museum entrance: Free.

Exhibitions €5

Paris and the Ile de France were predominate inspirations for the artist Albert Marquet. Sixty paintings and as many drawings will be on view of as well as several pastels, which are rarely shown.

Trésors de la fondation Napoléon
28 September 2004 to 13 March 2005
Open every day from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Musée Jacquemart-André
158, boulevard Haussmann, Paris 75008

Information: 01 45 62 11 59

To celebrate the bicentennial of Napoleon's coronation, the Musée Jacquemart-André will be holding an exhibition of artworks and everyday objects that lend fascinating insights into the Emperor's life.
Nice atmospheric restaurant on site.

Véronèse profane
September 22, 2004 - January 30, 2005

Open daily from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and until 22:30 on Monday and Friday.
Musée du Luxembourg
19 Rue Vaugirard, Paris 75006
Métro: Saint–Sulpice.
Information: 01 45 44 12 90.

Cost: €8,38

The Luxembourg Museum is once again organizing a major exhibition on one of the great masters of the Cinquecento. “This exhibition explores Veronese the profane, who was inspired by mythological and allegorical themes. His painting of the Roman heroine Lucretia is emblematic of his art where sacred and profane meet, as Lucretia is paralleled to the Biblical figure of Judith. But what characterizes Veronese most is his Venetian touch that, like a benevolent mirror, reflected the sparkling Venetian light, its beauty, its shine, its sensuality, its richness as well as his liberated modernity that reminds one of Renoir”

Major Museum Events

The Louvre

• Francesco Primaticcio
(1504 – 1570)
25 September-3 January 2005

François I invited the Bolognese painter Francesco Primaticcio to Fontainebleau, where he was to remain in service under four successive Valois monarchs. Trained by Giulio Romano, at the age of 28 he arrived to assist Rosso Fiorentino in the decoration of the newly converted royal residence. Five hundred centuries after his birth, the Louvre pays tribute to this exceptional artist with the first major exhibition devoted to his work.

• Rosso Fiorentino, The Death of Christ - Italy at the court of France
25 September- 3 January 2005

This three-part dossier exhibition is an artistic and scientific investigation devoted to Rosso Fiorentino's Pietà, the only surviving painting by this artist executed in France that is known to be original. Rosso introduced Mannerist decoration in the Italian style to the court of Francis I at Fontainebleau, where he served from 1530 until his death in 1540.

• Exceptional loan
from 30 April 2004 to 25 April 2005

30 Masterpieces of Islamic Artfrom the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

• Bernardo Bellotto: Paintings from the Royal Castle in Warsaw
October 7, 2004 - January 10, 2005

Eighteen views of Warsaw painted by Bernardo Bellotto (Venice, 1722 - Warsaw, 1780) for the Royal Castle in Warsaw. Bellotto immortalized one of the most beautiful cities in Central Europe.

• Masterpieces from the collection of Edmond de Rothschild: Drawings and engravings from the 15th to the 18th centuries
October 8, 2004 - January 10, 2005

This exhibition, a tribute to one of the world's most extraordinary collections of engravings, drawings, and illustrated books, assembled by Baron Edmond de Rothschild and generously offered to the Louvre by his heirs in 1935, traces the history of engraving and highlights the connections between drawing and painting and this reproductive art.

• Ludovico Carracci: The Louvre Drawings
October 21, 2004 - 17 January, 2005

Coinciding with the publication of the catalogue of drawings by the Carracci family in the Louvre's collection, the museum presents all of the original drawings by Ludovico Carracci (1555-1619) a little-known but eminent master of the Bolognese school.

• The Consecration of Napoleon painted by David: Two hundredth anniversary of the coronation of Napoleon, 2 December 1804
October 21, 2004 - 17 January 2005

Two hundred years after the Consecration of Napoleon in Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris and the Emperor's commission of a major painting commemorating the event, the Louvre organizes an exhibition of about fifty works paying tribute to the celebrated painting by David.

Rue de Rivoli, Paris 75001
(Metro: Palais-royal/Musee-du-Louvre)

Daily 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Late nights Wed. and Fri.

Closed Tuesday

Cost : 8.50€

Musee d’Orsay:

• New York and Modern Art. Alfred Stieglitz and His Circle (1905-1930)
October 19, 2004 - January 16, 2005

This exhibition pays homage to Alfred Stieglitz not only to his photography but also to the man who allowed Americans to discover the European avant-garde, from Cézanne to Brancusi, in his New York gallery
This is the first time in Paris that Stieglitz and his circle's action is the object of a monographic exhibition; the first time also that the work of this major photographer is shown comprehensively.

• Movements of Air - Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904): Photographer of Fluids
October 19, 2004 - January 16, 2005.

This exhibition pays homage to Etienne-Jules Marey with a little-known aspect of his work, the study of air movement by means of a "smoke machine" he devised and of instant photography. The poetic variations in these images broach the relationship between science and art,

The inventor among other things of chronophotography, this famous physiologist devoted his life to the study of movement in all its forms: animal and human locomotion, blood circulation, displacement of objects and fluids, gravity. Marey was one of the first theoreticians of aeronautics, the study of which led him to his aesthetic apotheosis during the years 1899-1902. His last major works were devoted to the observation and instant photography of smoke currents produced in his "smoke machine", one of the first modern aerodynamic wind tunnels, showing the diverse shapes of wisps of smoke according to the obstacle encountered in their trajectory.

The shots thus made by Marey, fantastical images combining science and dream, poetry and technique, are aesthetic masterpieces that belong equally to the history of art, of photography, of aeronautics and aerodynamics. Mostly part of the collections of the Cinemathèque Française, they are hitherto unpublished material and some of them have never been shown since their creation. Several "smoke machines" are presented along with original plates and photographic prints.

1, rue de la Légion d'Honneur, 75007 Paris

Metro: Solferino
Tue to Sun 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM. Late opeing Thur: 9:45 PM. Closed Monday (Open an hour later during the winter)

Information: 01 40 49 48 14

Cost : 7€

(Museum and Exhibitions)

Centre Pompidou

• Sons & Lumieres
September 22 2004 - January 3, 2005

Rue Saint Martin, Place Georges Pompidou, 75004 PARIS
11am-9 pm Mon, Wed-Sun,

Metro: Hôtel de Ville or Rambuteau

Information: 01 44 78 12 33

Cost : 7-10€

Other Museums:

Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA)

• The Pharaohs
October 15, 2004 - April 10, 2005
10:00 am to 6:00 pm

In Ancient Egypt, the Pharaohs were more than mere rulers: they were gods, high priests, victorious warriors. This exhibition at the Arab Cultural Center lends fascinating insights into these symbols of one of the greatest ancient civilizations.

On the top floor of the Institute is a restaurant with terrace with a splendid view of Notre-Dame and Paris.

Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA)
1 rue des Fossés-Saint-Bernard, Place Mohammed V, Paris 75005
Information: 01 40 51 38 14