Évry, Essonne coming from as far away as Canada, but only 500 visitors watched the ceremony on a giant screen erected in the nearby park. The following political parties have a permanent base in Évry: The composer Gioachino Rossini had a country residence in Évry to be near his friend Edmond de Goncourt, who lived on the opposite bank of the Seine in Draveil. It was here that he wrote the greater part of his opera "The Barber of Seville". On 16 November 1943, Resistance fighter Missak Manouchian was arrested during a gun battle on the banks of the Seine, a few
Madeleine Boyd Dvořák, with the director Alessandro Talevi. She has worked primarily in Europe with the American opera director Thaddeus Strassberger and the South African opera director Alessandro Talevi. Notable productions include Set and Costume Design: "La Cenerentola", by Gioachino Rossini for Malmö Opera, Sweden; "Orfeo ed Euridice" by Christoph Willibald Gluck, at Theater Augsburg, November 2007; "La Gazzetta" by Gioachino Rossini, Rossini in Wildbad Festival, July 2007. Her designs for Elizabeth Maconchy's one-act operas "The Sofa" and "The Departure", for Independent Opera at Sadler's Wells, in November 2007, were received with acclaim. The Chandos label released a recording of both operas