Little where people go, alas, as rarely as in the theaters of the opera and ballet. It so happened that, having been living in Israel and France for a long time in recent years, I was practically deprived of the opportunity to see the ballet, accompanied by a living orchestra. In Israel, all choreographic productions go under the phonogram, and in France the situation is only a little better: with the exception of the Paris Grand Opera, ballets-and here to recorded music.