Lecture on Théodore Reinach, founder and patron of the Paris Opera

With Claire Paolacci

A historian and musicologist, Claire Paolacci is a lecturer in the history of music, dance and the performing arts at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Saint-Maur-des-Fossés. She is also a lecturer at the Musée de la musique – Philharmonie de Paris and a lecturer at Université Paris Cité.

She is the author of *Jacques Rouché and the Paris Opera from the Great War to the Liberation* (Sorbonne Université Presses, 2025), which was awarded the France Musique – Claude Samuel Jury Prize in 2026.