Palais des Sports (Paris)
Palais de Sports is an indoor sports arena, located at 1, place de la Porte de Versailles in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, France. The closest métro station is Porte de Versailles.
The Palais des Sports was built in 1960 to replace the old Vel’ d’Hiv. at the Porte de Versailles. With a capacity of 4,500 seats, it was the largest venue in Paris. The architects and engineers created a dome with the lightest structure ever designed in the world made of 1,100 aluminium panels. Since its first season, the Palais de Sports presented shows and concerts, such as Johnny Hallyday, Sylvie Vartan, the Harlem Globetrotters, Holiday on Ice, … but also boxing matches. In years, hundreds of thousand people from all over the world has come to the Palais des Sports to applaud music hall and sports legends, dancers, ice skaters, circus shows, musical shows (Les Dix Commandements, Le Roi Soleil) and other shows as the ones directed by Robert Hossein, who has been a pioneer in big French shows. The Palais des Sports is one of the best venues in Paris and offers good acoustics and visibility wherever you are sitting.
Concerts (artists alphabetic order)
Dance
- 1961 : Rudolf Nureyev - Ballet du Kirov - La Belle au bois Dormant
- 1970 : Maurice Béjart - Opéra de Paris - Oiseau de Feu
- 1971 : Maurice Béjart - Nijinski fou de dieu
- 1972 : Ballet du Théâtre du Bolchoï
- 1973 : Roland Petit - Pink Floyd / Maïa Plissetskaia - Ballet de Marseille
- 1975 : Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris
- 1975 : Alvin Ailey
- 1975 : Ballets Sibériens de Krasnoiarsk
- 1976 : Rudolf Nureyev - London Festival Ballet - La Belle au Bois dormant
- 1977 : Festival Nureyev - Scottish Ballet
- 1978 : Rudolf Nureyev - London Festival Ballet - Romeo et Juliette
- 1979 : Maurice Béjart - Ballet du XX° Siècle - Boléro, Sacre du Printemps, Gaîté Parisienne
- 1980 : Ballet Mazowsze
- 1982 : Ballet Mazowsze
- 1987 : Roland Petit - Ballet de Marseille - L'Ange Bleu, Pavlova
- 1988 : Patrick Dupond - Ballet de Nancy
- 1988 : Alvin Ailey
- 1989 : Ballet National d'Espagne
- 1989 : Ballet de Nancy
- 1990 : Ballets Roumains
- 1992 : Entrez dans la danse
- 1992 : Rafael Aguilar - Carmen
- 1993 : Ballet Moisseiev
- 1995 : Rafael Aguilar
- 1996 : Maurice Béjart - Tokyo Ballet - Boléro
- 1998 : Antonio Gades - Carmen - Fuenteovejuna
- 1998 : Danse pour la Vie
- 1998 : Ballet Impérial de Russie
- 1999 : Maurice Béjart - Béjart Ballet Lausanne - Mutationx - Le Presbytère
- 2003 : Ballet de Corée - Roméo et Juliette / Shim Shung
- 2003 : Alvin Ailey
- 2005 : Maurice Béjart - Béjart Ballet Lausanne
- 2006 : Maurice Béjart - Béjart Ballet Lausanne - Best Of / Zarathoustra
- 2007 : Maurice Béjart - Béjart Ballet Lausanne - Best Of / Amor 4x20
- 2007 : Marie-Claude Pietragalla - Conditions Humaines
- 2008 : Maurice Béjart - Béjart Ballet Lausanne - Soirée Igor Stravinsky
- 2008 : Maurice Béjart - Béjart Ballet Lausanne - Tour du Monde en 80 Minutes
Shows
- Holiday on Ice (regularly from 1960 until 1997)
- Lord of the Dance (1998/2005/2008)
- Sleeping Beauty on Ice - Imperial Ice Stars (2008)
- The Blue Man Group (2008)
Musicals
- 1973 : La Révolution Française
- 1980 : Les Misérables
- 1997 : Starmania, opéra rock
- 1998 : West Side Story
- 1999 : Grease
- 2000 and 2001 : Les Dix Commandements
- 2003 : Autant en emporte le Vent
- 2004 : Hair
- 2004 : Gladiateur
- 2005/2006 : Le Roi Soleil
- 2009/2010 : Cléopâtre, la dernière reine d'Egypte
- 2009/2010 : Mozart, l'opéra rock
Theatre
- 1975 : Potemkine
- 1978 : Notre-Dame de Paris
- 1983 : Un Homme nommé Jésus
- 1985 : Jules César
- 1987 : L'Affaire du courrier de Lyon
- 1990 : Dans la nuit la Liberté
- 1993 : Je m'appelais Marie-Antoinette
- 1995 : Angélique Marquise des Anges
- 2002 : C'était Bonaparte
- 2007 : Jean-Paul II
One man show
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