News Release
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August 17, 2022

Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Dialogues of the Muses: The Paris Opera House and the Arts
November 5 [Sat.], 2022 - February 5 [Sun.], 2023

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1. Édouard MANET, Masked Ball at the Opera, 1873, Artizon Museum,Ishibashi Foundation
2. Charles GARNIER, Front View of the Facade of the Palais Garnier,
1861 ©Bibliothèque Nationale de France

The Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation (Director: Ishibashi Hiroshi), presents
Dialogues of the Muses: The Paris Opera House and the Arts.
The Paris Opera House is known as a glorious sacred space for ballet and operaperformances. Founded in 1669 by King Louis XIV, the Paris Opera House has,throughout its history, consistently commissioned works with artistically innovative,
even revolutionary, potential from librettists, composers, and artists. This exhibition
explores the history of the Paris Opera House from the seventeenth century to thepresent, examining the relationships between various fields of art and their appeal
from a comprehensive artistic perspective. The focus is particularly on the nineteenth
and early twentieth centuries, the age of romantic ballet, grand opera, and the BalletsRusses. Introducing the multifaceted appeal of the Paris Opera House from artistic,
cultural, and sociological perspectives, using about 250 works from the Bibliothèquenationale de France and other sources in Japan and abroad, this exhibition reveals its
historic significance. In making the complex connections between the Paris Opera
House and many arts, this exhibition is an utterly unprecedented venture.
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What is the Paris Opera House?
France’s iconic setting for musical theater performances,
this gorgeous building in the 9th arrondissement of Pariswas planned as one part of the modernization of Paris inthe latter half of the nineteenth century and completed in1875. The theater is called the Palais Garnier, after its
architect, Charles Garnier. During the more than 350
years since its predecessor, the Académie Royale deMusique, was founded by King Louis XIV in 1669, it has
always commissioned works that make possible artistic
advances and innovations from librettists, composers,and artists. In 1989, a new theater, the Opéra Bastille,
was completed. Today, both Opera Houses present
ballets and operas, from the classics to contemporary works.

Interior of the Paris Opera House© Jean-Pierre Delagarde / Opéra national de Paris

Exhibition Highlights
1. 200 works from the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Muséed’Orsay, and other sources, on display in JapanThe Department of Music of the Bibliothèque nationale de France has a large collectionof materials related to French opera and ballet, with a focus on works that have been
performed at the Paris Opera House. This exhibition introduces about 200 works fromthat collection, plus works from the Musée d’Orsay, including Edgar Degas’s The DanceClass, and other works related to the Opera House from sources in Japan and abroad.
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3. François-Gabriel-Guillaume LÉPAULLE, Trio from Act V, Scene 3 of Robert le Diable（Robert the Devil）, 1835
©Bibliothèque Nationale de France
4. Edgar DEGAS, The Dance Class, 1873-76, Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Adrien Didierjean / distributed by AMF

2. Interpreting the appeal of the Opera House as a “comprehensivework of art”
From set designers and costume designers during the rule of Louis XIV to thecomposers of Grand Opera and the dancers performing Romantic Ballet in thenineteenth century and performers in the twenty-first century, the Paris Opera House
has built its own distinctive artistic policies through collaboration among creators in ahost of fields. Here we explore that process and its results.

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5. Poster of the first performance of Tannhaüser, 1861 ©Bibliothèque Nationale de France
6. Ida Rubinstein's Headdress in Scheherazade, c.1910 ©Bibliothèque Nationale de France
7. Christian LACROIX, Costume Design for Les anges ternis (Tarnished Angels), c.1987 ©Bibliothèque Nationale de France

3. Two of Manet’s paintings of the Opera House on Display
The nineteenth-century French artist Édouard Manet (1832-83) took the Opera House
as his subject in several works, including one that the Artizon Museum owns. For thisexhibition, it is being displayed with another on that subject from the Washington
National Gallery, in a rare opportunity to view both.
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8. Édouard MANET, Masked Ball at the Opera, 1873, Gift of Mrs. Horace Havemeyer in memory of her mother-in-law,
Louisine W. Havemeyer, National Gallery of Art, Washington
9. Édouard MANET, Masked Ball at the Opera, 1873, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation

Other Noteworthy Exhibits
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10. Antoine WATTEAU, La Perspective (View through the Trees in the Park of Pierre Crozat), c. 1715, Maria Antoinette Evans Fund, Museumof Fine Arts, Boston
11. Jean-Baptiste CARPEAUX, The Genius of the Dance, No.2, Paris, Musée d'Orsay Photo © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d'Orsay) / Tony
Querrec / distributed by AMF
12. Jean-Baptiste Édouard DETAILLE, The Inauguration of the Opéra de Paris on January 5, 1875, 1878, Paris, Musée d'Orsay, dépôt aumusée national du château de Versailles Photo ©RMN-Grand Palais (Château de Versailles) / Gérard Blot/ distributed by AMF【章構成】
13. Marc CHAGALL, Figures at the Opera, 1968-1971, Pola Museum of Art ©ADAGP, Paris&JASPAR, Tokyo, 2022 Chagall® C3919

14. Alfred Edward CHALON, Pas de Quatre (Carlotta Grisi, Marie Taglioni, Lucile Grahn & Fanny Cerrito),1845, Hyogo Performing Arts
Center, Kenji Usui Ballet Collection

Composition of the Exhibition
Overture: Birth of the Palais Garnier
Act 1: 17th - 18th centuries（1）"Great Century" mechanisms and dream play（2）"Fête galante" accompanied by music（3）Neoclassical aesthetic innovations
Act 2: 19th century (1)（1）Opera house on rue Le Peletier（2）Grand opera（3）Romantic ballet（4）Costume designers and costume makers * Regarding theater-goers in Paris
Act 3: 19th century (2)（1）Reform of grand opera（2）Degas and the Paris Opera（3）Artists who painted the theater（4）The aesthetics of Wagner *Authors and the Paris Opera * Japonisme and the Paris Opera
Act 4: 20th - 21st centuries（1）Invitation to Ballets Russes（2）Modern art and the Paris Opera（3）Chagall, appeal todesigners（4）The opera of directors and choreographers * Movies and musicals
Epilogue: The Opéra Bastille and its future

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Exhibition Overview
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Dialogues of the Muses: The Paris Opera House and the Arts
Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Artizon Museum, 6,5F Galleries
November 5 [Sat.], 2022 - February 5 [Sun.], 2023
10:00 – 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays)*Last entry 30 minutes before closing.
Mondays (except January 9), December 28 to January 3, January 10
Timed entry system(Online booking starts from September 6, 2022)
Online ticket: 1,800 yen
Same day ticket (on sale at museum): 2,000 yen
Students: Free entry (Advance online booking required.)*This admission fee gives the visitor access to the concurrent exhibition.
*Same day tickets on sale at the museum are available only for time slotsthat have not reached full capacity.
*Advance booking is not required for children up to junior high schoolage.
MIURA Atsushi（Professor, The University of Tokyo）
KAGAWA Kyoko, TADOKORO Natsuko

Artizon Museum
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Concurrent Exhibition
Selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection Special Section

Art in a Box: The Box in a Valise by Marcel Duchamp and It’s
Aftermath
In the 4F Gallery, in addition to presenting selections from the Ishibashi Foundation Collection, we
have prepared a special Duchamp section. Here we present Marcel Duchampʼs “box” works,
including his Box in a Valise (1952) as well as The Green Box and The White Box and explore theirinfluence and aftermath in later box-form works.

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Left: Marcel DUCHAMP, From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy (Box in a Valise), Series B, 1952, 1946 (pencil drawing) © Association
Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo 2022 C3919
Right: Marcel DUCHAMP, The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even (The Green Box), 1934 © Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP,
Paris & JASPAR, Tokyo 2022 C3919

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Curator:Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation
Artizon Museum, 4F Gallery
SHIMBATA Yasuhide

Exhibition period:
Opening hours:

October 25 [Tue], 2022 - February 5[Sun], 2023
10:00 – 18:00 (until 20:00 on Fridays)*Last entry 30 minutes before closing.
Mondays (except January 9), November 4, December 28 to January 3,
January 10

Closed:*Special notice for October 25 [Tue.] to November 3 [Thu.]
Only the 4F Gallery will be open; the 5F and 6F Galleries will be closed.
Admission (incl. tax):

Timed entry system(Online booking starts from September 6, 2022)Online ticket: 500 yen
Same day ticket (on sale at museum): 500 yen
Students: Free entry (Advance online booking required.)*Same day tickets on sale at the museum are available only for time slotsthat have not reached full capacity.
*Advance booking is not required for children up to junior high schoolage.
*This admission fee gives the visitor access to Selections from the Ishibashi
Foundation Collection (4F Gallery).

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