Paris Opera
The magazine of the photo-essay
March/April 2023 back issue
“A free, really high quality photo-essay magazine. Fabulous!”
Stephen Fry. British actor, writer and film maker
by Bill Henson
In 1990 Bill Henson was commissioned by the Paris Opera to produce a new series
of works that literalised the effect of listening to music, and found a formal
expression for emotions generated by music.
Over the course of a year, Henson traveled to the three great Opera houses of
Paris. On returning to his Melbourne studio, he recreated moments of beauty and
tenderness witnessed during performances.
