Palate of the Congresses of Paris

The palate of the congresses of Paris , in the 17th district, is a place of businesses, congress and spectacles of the capital, installed carries Maillot. The Palate of the congresses belongs to the same unit as a hotel skyscraper, the Concorde Lafayette, in edge of the Bois de Boulogne and of Neuilly-sur-Seine.

Built starting from 1970 by the architect Guillaume Waistcoat, it is inaugurated in 1974. The imposing frontage in tilted plan dates from the rehabilitation in 1998. It is the work of the architect Christian de Portzamparc. It comprises two rooms, the Large Amphitheater (3.800 places) and the Amphitheater Bordeaux (650 places).

Spectacles created with the Palate of the congresses

• Starmania , of Luc Plamondon and Michel Berger, (1979)

• Notre-Dame de Paris , of Luc Plamondon and Richard Cocciante, (1998)
• Romeo and Juliette, of hatred to the love , Gerard Presgurvic, (2001)
• One completes the horses well, of Robert Hossein, (2004)

As well as the principal musical comedies of Chantal Goya and Jean-Jacques Upright:

• the Shoe which steals , (1980)
• the marvellous Planet , (1982 - 1983)
• the Mysterious voyage , (1984 - 1986)
• Strange story of the castle haunted , (1989)

Artists who occurred in this room

• Michel Sardou: 1978,1981,1983,1985,1987

• Charles Aznavour: 1986,1987,1992,1994,1997,1998,2000,2004,2007
• Henri Salvador: 2002
• Serge LAMA: 1977
• Tender yearses and wood head: 2007
• Sylvie Vartan: 1975,1976,1977,1978,1983,2004
• Choruses of Paris XIII: 2005,2006,2007
• Bruce Springsteen : 1996

External bond

• Official site of the Palate of the congresses

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