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Paris talks of tearing down the Bastille

Paris talks of tearing down the Bastille

The troubled opera house, inaugurated in 1989 as a model of modernity, is scheduled to shut for three years from 2030 because it is falling apart. The stage is on the verge of collapse. The roof needs to be ripped out. The projected cost of renovation is 400 million Euros.

Possibly twice as much.

Might be cheaper to build a new one. More comfortable, perhaps, and with lower overheads. Every seat sold in the Bastille carries a 123-Euro state subsidy.

Jean-Pierre Robin, a columnist in Le Figaro, has gone into print with the incendiary question: ‘Should the Bastille Opera in Paris be demolished?’

This debate will run and run.

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