Paris Opera Ballet christens new Lowry Center with its own “Bayadere” For its first British visit in 16 years the Paris Opera Ballet brought Rudolf Nureyev’s staging of La Bayadère, the last production Nureyev worked on before he died in early 1993. Nureyev had already given the Parisians half a dozen stagings of the Russian classics, but this was to be his grandest vision yet for the company. – The Times (London)