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Part 3. Aims and Prospects

Chapter 14. The Paris Opera in 2015

• Maintaining the financial fundamentals
• New strategic orientations
• More radical reconsiderations to be looked at
• Necessity and limits of economic rationals

Chapter 15. Governance improvements for the Paris Opera

• Recent uncertainties in the management of different opera houses in the world
• Build on recent improvements
• Back to a contractual relationship between the director and the state administration through a pluri annual business plan
• Increase in the responsibilities of the board of directors as the guardian of economics and pluri annual business plan
• Clarify and strengthen human resources policies
• Proposed changes in the board composition and working methods

As a conclusion

• Possible evolutions in the choice of shows and programming
• Audience as a constraint and a target
• Focus on the professional and social prospects of the artists and staff at the Paris Opera
• The Paris Opera, microcosm and mirror to French society?

Annexes