PARIS, France — The historic opera house of the Paris Opera ... by the closure for renovation of the opera's giant newer stage, the Opera Bastille, opened in 1989, for at least two years ...

Soprano Lise Davidsen, fresh from her debut lead performance in Strauss' Salome at Paris Opera Bastille ... stretches between singing engagements. She and her fiance have a house in London ...

The singing is ... big Queen Elizabeth stage (ones that have had to work, after all, for smaller venues like Pacific Opera Victoria). La Traviata's sets conjure 1920s Paris. Tim Matheson For ...