The Arts Arena Curtis Institute of Music Award Concert
11 February, 2015 at 19:30 - 22:00 on 2 rue Saint Florentin, Paris, 1e
Aizuri Quartet at the Hôtel de Talleyrand The Arts Arena is honored to present each year an award to musicians selected by the faculty of the renowned Curtis Institute of Music, one of the world’s finest conservatories, and to offer them a concert in Paris. This year’s winner is the Aizuri Quartet, an all-female string […]
ArtsArenaPLUS at l’Opéra Comique
30 January, 2015 at 20:00 - 22:00 on 1 Place Boieldieu, Paris, 2e
The Arts Arena is pleased to be able to offer its members tickets to the sold-out production of William Christie and Les Arts Florissants’s performance of the opera-dance Les Fêtes vénitiennes at the Opéra Comique. Members will be invited to greet Mr. Christie and the performers.
Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota
25 January, 2015 at 17:00 - 20:00 on Théâtre de la Ville, 2 Place du Châtelet, Paris, 4e
Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota is not only the director of one of Paris’s most important theaters: He is himself an acclaimed director of the stage. His latest production, currently playing, is Pirandello’s Six Personnages en quête d’auteur (Six Characters in Search of an Author), the precursor of the Theater of the Absurd and works by such authors as Beckett, […]
ArtsArenaPLUS at Théâtre de la Ville
13 January, 2015 at 20:00 - 22:00 on Place du Châtelet, Paris
We are pleased to offer ArtsArenaPLUS members complementary tickets to the dress rehearsal of Emmanuel Demarcy-Mota’s production of Pirandello’s play Six personnages en quête d’auteur on January 13, the eve of its official opening. This is in anticipation of our January 25 joint event with the theater when, following the 15h00 matinee, Mr. Demarcy-Mota will […]
Jean Fritts, African & Oceanic Art
09 December, 2014 at 19:00 - 22:00 on 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Jean Fritts joined Sotheby’s in 1992 and now is its worldwide head for African and Oceanic art. Previously with the National Museum of African Art and the Smithsonian Institution, she is a highly respected scholar, but also a central figure in the market for African and Oceanic art. She has been directly involved in the […]
William Christie on clavecin, vocalists, viole de gambe, théorbo
24 November, 2014 at 19:30 - 22:00 on Hôtel de Talleyrand, 2 rue Saint Florentin, Paris, 1e
Founder of Les Arts Florissants, perhaps the greatest Baroque ensemble ever, celebrated conductor, harpsichordist, and educator, William Christie is the high priest of Baroque music and the most decorated American in France. With Les Arts Florissants, he has made more than 100 recordings on the most prestigious record labels, and the ensemble has just created […]
Isabelle Huppert in Conversation
10 November, 2014 at 19:00 - 22:00 on 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
Nominated 14 times for a César Award, winning La Cérémonie; twice won Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival (Violette Nozière by Claude Chabrol, The Piano Teacher by Michael Haneke), twice received the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, and in 2005 a Special Lion for her role in Gabrielle. Nominated for Best Actress by European Film Awards, Los Angeles Film Critics […]
ArtsArenaPLUS at Lucinda Childs’s “Dance”
18 October, 2014 at 20:30 - 22:00 on Place du Châtelet, Paris
As part of the Festival d’Automne, the Théâtre de la Ville presents a revival of Lucinda Childs’s landmark work Dance, with sets and video by artist Sol LeWitt.Caitlan Scranton, who appreared with Ms. Childs at the Arts Arena in January 2014, will be performing. We have a limited number of tickets available for Arts Arena […]
MARGARET WRINKLE, award-winning author of WASH
07 October, 2014 at 19:00 - 22:00 on 4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris, 6e
“Unflinching, stunningly imagined” (Vanity Fair). “Amazing…Never has a fictionalized window into the relationship between slave and master opened onto such believable territory…[A] luminous book.” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution). A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, an O Magazine Top Ten Pick, a People Pick, Wash is the first novel by writer, filmmaker, educator, and visual […]
ArtsArenaPLUS and Robert Wilson
01 October, 2014 at 21:00 - 22:45 on Place de l'Odéon, Paris
ArtsArenaPLUS members are invited to a preview of Robert Wilson’s production of Jean Genet’s Les Nègres at the Théâtre de l’Odéon.