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Paris with Iceland stopover in November?

Posted by (Michigan) on

I’d like to plan a trip to spend about 10 days in Paris and nearby spots, and do a 3 night stopover in Iceland with hopes to see the Northern Lights while there.

We haven’t been to Paris in the fall, and I was hoping to try to book some cultural events. My first stop was the Palais Garnier website, and only found tour options, no events.

So I’m looking for good ideas, please. We would like to try a concert in Saint Chapelle, and some kind of ballet or opera performance if possible, at the Opera Garnier. We’ve been to Paris several times and want to use this trip to revisit some of our favorite places while adding in a few new events and experiences. I would also like to do a nighttime City of Light kind of tour to see the monuments illuminated.

Also, I think we’d be traveling in the early to middle of the month, and looked to see that there might be one or two Christmas markets starting around the 16th. I know we won’t be there around Thanksgiving, and that’s okay with us to miss the majority of the markets in this trip.

Thanks for any ideas!

Laurie

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For opera/ballet tickets, if you register an account you can set an alarm for when seats become available. Resales happen often, I have never been unable to find 2 seats at a sold-out performance.

There seem to be no shows at Garnier for the first half of November, and the performances of the latter half are sold-out for now.

A suitable alternative to Garnier is the Opéra-Comique: a smaller venue from the same era, less lavish but still very atmospheric IMO. There are good seats left for Iphigénie en Tauride between 2-12 Nov.

Paris XMas markets are pretty terrible, you're not missing anything.

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