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Opéra de Paris : Auction for Action, Bid for Creation!

To help support the artists who have made the Opera a living center of creation for more than 350 years, the Paris Opera has chosen to organize the first auction in its history in collaboration with Sotheby's on January 30th. After two years of unprecedented threats to creativity and creators, art is more necessary than ever to solicit dialogue between individuals and must be shared with all.

This sale is part of the "Mon Opéra Responsable et Engagé (#MORE)" initiative, which reaffirms the commitment of the Paris Opera to become more involved in the community, by striving in constantly creating, proposing, preserving and transmitting.

These ambitions are intimately linked. This unprecedented sale will above all contribute to supporting creation at the Opera, because it constitutes the heart of the institution's activity. It is at the heart of the training of artists and the transmission of knowledge.

But creating is also, more than ever, a necessity to reach all audiences, by offering works of our time, which echo the questions that drive our societies and the diversity of the individuals who compose them. Creating makes it possible to speak to new generations and to those who are far from opera, dance and music.

With the results of this sale, the Opera will continue and develop its actions in favor of access for all to its shows: youth previews of new shows, youth subscriptions, "My First Time at the Opera" evenings, subscriptions families, educational program "10 Months of School and Opera" which currently exists in Ile-de-France and could be extended to the whole country...

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