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24/09 Gala : Défilé du ballet/Clouds Inside (Voelker)/Brise-lames (Jalet)/Etudes (Lander)
28/09-6/12 Play (Ekman)
15/10-04/11 Le Rouge et le noir (Lacotte)
29/11-02/01 le sacre du printemps (Nijinski) / l'après midi d'un faune (Eyal) / Rhapsody (Ashton)
09/12-02/01 Don Quichotte (Nureyev)
30/01-20/02 Body and soul (Pite)
14/03-03/04 Uprising / In Your Rooms (Schechter)
02/04-06/05 La Bayadère (Nureyev)
06/05-05/06 Carmen/Another Place / Bolero (Mats Ek)
18/06-16/07 A Midsummer Night's Dream (Balanchine)
25/06-16/07 Giselle (Coralli-Perrot)

Third farewell attempt for Eleonora Abbagnato. June 11th in the Roland Petit programme. She is scheduled to dance Le Rendez-vous with Mathieu Ganio and Le Jeune homme et la mort with Stéphane Bullion.   

Paris Opera Ballet is due to resume live shows on May 30th with this Roland Petit Programme.

The opening gala of the dance season will be available online for free  January 30 at 20:00 local time here :

https://chezsoi.operadeparis.fr/videos/gala-d-ouverture

Program
Défilé du Ballet
Choregraphy: Albert Aveline, Serge Lifar
Music: Hector Berlioz

Grand pas classique

Valentine Colasante, Danseuse Etoile
Hugo Marchand, Danseur Etoile

In the night

1st pas de deux :
Ludmila Pagliero, Danseuse Etoile
Mathieu Ganio, Danseur Etoile
2nd pas de deux :
Léonore Baulac, Danseuse Etoile
Germain Louvet, Danseur Etoile
3rd pas de deux :
Alice Renavand, Danseuse Etoile
Stéphane Bullion, Danseur Etoile

The vertiginous thrill of exactitude
Amandine Albisson, Danseuse Etoile
Ludmila Pagliero, Danseuse Etoile
Paul Marque, Danseur Etoile
Hannah O'Neill, Première danseuse
Pablo Legasa, Premier danseur

The gala will be broadcasted tonight for patrons

https://www.today24.news/en/2021/01/paris-opera-its-traditional-opening-gala-to-follow-online.html

Paul Marque has been named Etoile by Alexander Neef after the live stream of La Bayadère. He was dancing the Golden Idol.

L'Opéra chez soi is the new Paris Opera online platform available from today. I hope it is available from abroad.

There is a live broadcast of La Bayadère next Sunday with a special cast (Different main roles in each act) with a trailer here : https://chezsoi.operadeparis.fr/packages/la-bayadere/videos/trailer-bayadere

ACTE I : Dorothée Gilbert, Germain Louvet, Léonore Baulac
ACTE II : Amandine Albisson, Hugo Marchand, Valentine Colasante
ACTE III : Ludmila Pagliero, Mathias Heymann

There is also a back catalogue already available.

4 hours ago, naomikage said:

The contemporary program mentioned above will be live streamed on Facebook Live and will be available for 48 hours.

https://www.facebook.com/events/814611822715510/

This will be held November 13th 20::00 UTC (Europe time zone) for 4.49 euros.

https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/news/the-paris-opera-ballet-performing-live-the-creations-of-sidi-larbi-cherkaoui-tess-voelker-and-mehdi-kerkouche-at-the-garnier-friday-november-13-8pm

Brise lames, the Damien Jalet piece, is not included in the broadcast.

The last show before "soft" lockdown is tonight and this is "Etoiles". For the moment, the dancers will still be allowed to repeat so it's not a full stop. We'll see but it doesn't look good for Bayadère anyway...

Annual internal competition to enter POB ballet has been held mid-October. Following dancers have been selected :

Clara MOUSSEIGNE
Lisa GAILLARD-BORTOLOTTI
Gloria POUBEAU
Camille CALAZANS
Alycia HIDDINGA
Ysée BRETIGNIERE
Margaux CHABREL

Enzo SAUGAR
Osiris ONAMBELE NGONO
Keita BELLALI

Due to Covid-19, external competition is postponed.

Source : POB www

and Karl Paquette is now teacher at POB school

12 hours ago, Buddy said:

One of these works, "Just", is by former Paris Opera Ballet Premier Danseur, Simon Valastro. Olga Smirnova will be the lead in two of its three performances.

 

 

Just to be precise, Simone Valastro was not  Premier Danseur but Sujet

The whole programme is detailed on POB web site if you click on the link I made on the title of the shows with casting and dates.

POB announced 3 new programmes for this fall at The Palais Garnier

Etoiles de l'Opéra
from 05 to 29 October 2020
Alastair Marriott, John Neumeier, Hans van Manen, William Forsythe, Martha Graham, Mikhail Fokine, Jerome Robbins
with Mathieu Ganio, Laura Hecquet, Stéphane Bullion, Ludmila Pagliero, Hugo Marchand, Hannah O'Neill, Vincent Chaillet, Emilie Cozette, Sae Eun Park

Rudolf Nureyev
from 06 to 30 October 2020
Nutcracker, Cindarella, Romeo and Juliet, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Manfred, Sleeping Beauty
with Dorothée Gilbert, Paul Marque, Alice Renavand, Florian Magnenet, Myriam Ould-Braham, Mathias Heymann, Valentine Colasante, Arthus Raveau, Francesco Mura, Amandine Albisson, Audric Bezard, Léonore Baulac,Germain Louvet

Contemporary choreographers
from 04 to 28 November 2020
creations from Tess Voelker, Damien Jalet, Mehdi Kerkouche and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

According to the French Ministry of Culture Press Release , Alexander Neef will take his functions as soon as ... next week!

Paris Opera director Stéphane Lissner has announced he will leave the head of the company at the end of December (he was due to finish the 20-21 season and leave in July 21) and that he has decided to close both Opera houses for renovation work until  the end of November (Bastille) and end of December (Garnier)

https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/news/stage-renovation-work-at-the-paris-opera-from-july-2020

POB dancers to thank people working  during the lockdown

https://youtu.be/OIiG14Ggmu0

Paris Opera Ballet has "closed'. It has stopped morning classes and all rehearsals for at least 15 days.

Following shows are cancelled

Manon, from March 13 to April 3
George Balanchine, from March 12 to April 10,
Don Giovanni: from March 21 to April 24
The Ballet School production: from March 25 to 30

no information about Alan Lucien Øyen new work which is supposed to start April 11

57 minutes ago, volcanohunter said:

I hope this epidemic will prompt people to begin doing what they should have been doing all along: staying at home when they're unwell. But theaters should also become more accommodating and offer patrons refunds when they're unable to attend for health reasons. Psychologically I can understand why theatergoers are reluctant to let a very expensive ticket go to waste, and so they use it, even if they're sick and even if they don't really want to go out.

Years ago I remember spending 3+ hours at the Met next to a woman who was coughing, very apologetically, and out of knee-jerk politeness I kept reassuring her that everything was fine. And then I spent nearly two weeks in bed hacking away. It was probably the sickest I've ever been.

this was already offered for a week by Paris Opera : you could be redunded of your ticket just by calling or sending a mail telling you're unwell.

it is available from the official Paris Opera Twitter . If you follow the link, you have more details on the 3 shows concerned so far

1 hour ago, volcanohunter said:

After numerous cancellations over Christmas because the strike, the French government has banned gatherings of more than 1,000 people, in an attempt to stop the spread of Covid-19. So once again, POB performances are being canceled. This time it's the Balanchine bill that's being pulled.

https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/message-to-spectators-of-the-performance-of-george-balanchine-3

And the Balanchine bill had already been cancelled 4 times because of the strike

There was a rumour of having Raymonda instead of La Bayadère but perhaps it requires too much soloists just like the Kylian bill at the same time...

Kylian is a favorite of POB and Petite Mort and Sechs Tänze are new to the repertoire

2020-2021 season is out. Due to budget constraints Pierre Lacotte's full length Le Rouge et le Noir after Stendhal is cancelled

22/09/2020 Gala: Défilé/ Shechter/Robbins/Pite  The Art of Not Looking Back/In the Night / Seasons’ canon

25/09-17/10/2020 Shechter/Robbins/Pite - The Art of Not Looking Back/In the Night / Seasons’ canon

27/10-14/11/2020 Cherkaoui/Eyal/Ashton – Sheherezade(New Work)/Après-midi d’un faune(New Work)/Rhapsody

4/12/2020-01/01/2021 Kylián - Petite Mort/Doux mensonges/Stepping Stones/Sechs Tänze

10/12/2020-02/01/2021 La Bayadere (Nureyev version)

4-27/02/2021 Ohad Naharin - Sadeh 21

9/03-16/04/2021 Angelin Preljocaj Le Parc (instead of new work Le Rouge et le Noir)

29/03-7/05/2021 Roland Petit  Notre Dame de Paris

30/05-26/06/2021 Roland Petit - Le Jeune Homme et La Mort/Carmen/Le Rendez-vous

9-30/06/2021 Romeo and Juliet (Nureyev version)

Really? I don't see who you are talking about then. People from this government are more resigning because of conflicts of interest...

14 hours ago, sandik said:

I hadn't seen the response, so many thanks for the link.  I was listening today to a report about a member of the French national government who is resigning his position after having been outed in an extra-marital relationship -- the general consensus was that this was highly unusual for the French, who generally do not delve into the private lives of public people.  It seems that things are shifting.

 

 

Well it not quite the story. It's Macron's candidate for the election of Mayor of Paris and videos of him masturbating were shown on a website and later on twitter. He withdrew  his candidacy.

The strike is not finished but as it is now. The trade unions are only calling the cancellation of Premieres and the shows happening the day of a national strike. These days are decided by the National Unions sometimes from one week to another, so difficult to forecast. The two first shows of Balanchine triple bill have been cancelled but it finally started last Monday.