Ballet masters, always male, dominate the classroom, wooden sticks in hand. In Degas’s era, the Paris Opera was a hub of prepubescent prostitution. Wealthy subscribers – known as abonnés ...

got his start creating designs for opera in Paris in the early 19th century. In 1871, Edgar Degas painted one of his most intriguing works, the ballet scene from Meyerbeer’s “Robert le Diable ...

Degas was one of a number of artists in 19th century Paris who flew in ... London The Ballet Scene from Meyerbeer's Opera Robert Le Diable by Edgar Degas At the end of 1873, a number of artists ...

The work is one of 130 in “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” a sumptuous show of the capital city’s splendors, born, as ...

The Paris Opera’s production of “Swan Lake” will come to movie theaters across the world on November 10 — but will screen in IMAX theaters November 8, because this is the first ballet ever ...

Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, later known as Edgar Degas, was born in Paris in 1834. He was the son of a Creole mother from New Orleans, Louisiana, and a French father who worked as a banker.

Paris Opera has lost more than $13.3 million in a month-long strike by ballet dancers fighting to cling onto pension rights that date back to the "Sun King" Louis XIV. PARIS (AFP) — Paris Opera has ...

Paris Opera Ballet performers now retire at 42 with a full pension. France, which wants to tighten retirement rules for everyone, has walked back its original proposals, but no one is happy.

Waldemar Januszczak continues his investigation of the impressionists, focusing this time on the people they painted and in particular the works of Edgar ... ballet dancers at the Paris Opera.

Born two years apart to affluent haut bourgeois Parisian families, Édouard Manet (1832-1883) and Edgar Degas (1834-1917 ... collections of the New York and Paris institutions.

Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are a few recommendations from Globe writers and critics, covering music, ...