Word: garnier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made his final appearance on the stage of the Palais Garnier, home of the Paris Opera Ballet, after a performance of his staging of La Bayadere. He needed dancers' support to stay upright. He was gaunt and emaciated, but the style was defiantly intact -- he was swathed in a huge gold-and-scarlet cape -- and so was the fiery heroism...
Practically from its conception, nearly a decade ago, the Bastille Opera has been plagued by controversy. It was one of those ideas that at first glance seemed both impossible and unnecessary. The opulent Palais Garnier, the Paris Opera's famed Second Empire quarters, was one of the world's most beautiful opera houses. The chosen site, a disused railroad station in then unfashionable eastern Paris, was deemed Nowhere by le Tout-Paris. And the cost of some $400 million, just about everybody said, could be better spent elsewhere...
Chung's success was emblematic of the larger triumph. At every step in the Bastille's history, it would have been much easier to do nothing rather than something. It would have been easier to leave the Opera in the Garnier, easier to leave the solid but dull Barenboim in place, easier to maintain the Paris Opera's reputation as the art form's great underachiever...