“ We are both physically and emotionally exhausted, ” Ekaterina Kozlova, the company’s deputy director, told the Associated Press.... Only a part of the company was traveling around France performing a shortened version of “ The Nutcracker ” for young audiences — most of the dancers in Paris are in their early 20s.... Many of the ballet’s star dancers stayed behind, waiting to join their friends after they reached Paris.“ Most of our artists are stuck in Ukraine, ” Director Ivan Kozlov told th

Open this photo in gallery Jean-Paul Jeannotte in 1961. André Le Coz/ RADIO-CANADAWhen the renowned French-Canadian tenor Jean-Paul Jeannotte declared his retirement from the concert stage at the age of 40, at the peak of his popularity, he knew what he was doing.... ’ than ‘Why won’t he stop singing?... It came a decade later, in 1979, when he was asked to be the first general and artistic director of the newly created Opéra de Montréal....