At Paris Opera, Darkness Falls And Show Goes On

“The revival of Halevy’s ‘La Juive’ at the Paris Opera, after an absence of 73 years, started with a bewildering opening night. The stage was shrouded in various degrees of darkness. At the end, director Pierre Audi and his team didn’t appear at the curtain calls. This was not an artistic choice. … We were witnessing a strike of the lighting technicians.”