Cultural event — Private tour

"Degas at the Opera" - Exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay

25 Nov. 2019

  • Outdoors

Through the work of a tremendous artist lies the portrait of the Paris Opera in the nineteenth century!



As part of the 350th anniversary celebrations of the Paris Opera and in partnership with the Friends of the Orsay and Orangerie Museums, the Arop invites you to a visit of the exhibition Degas at the Opera at the Musée d'Orsay.

Throughout his career, from his beginnings in the 1860s to his last works beyond 1900, Degas made the Opera the focal point of his work, his "own room". He explores the various spaces - room and stage, boxes, foyer, dance hall -, paying close attention to those who populate them, dancers, singers, musicians of the orchestra, spectators, and patrons in black clothes haunting the backstage. This closed world is a microcosm with infinite possibilities and allows for any experience: multiple points of view, contrasting lighting, study of movement and the truth of the gesture.

No exhibition so far has seen opera globally, studying both the passionate connection that Degas had with this house, his musical tastes, but also the infinite resources of this wonderful "toolbox".


General Commissioner: Henri Loyrette. Commissioners: Leila Jarbouai, graphic arts curator at the Musée d'Orsay, Marine Kisiel, curator at the Musée d'Orsay, and Kimberly Jones, curator of nineteenth-century French paintings at the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Exhibition organized by the Orsay and Orangerie Museums, Paris and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, where it will be presented from March 1 to July 5, 2020, on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Paris Opera . Exhibition held with the exceptional cooperation by the National Library of France.

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