silvermash Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 Next season is on Paris Opera www Alan Lucien Øyen Creation Palais Garnier from 20 Sep to 13 Oct 2022 Mayerling - Kenneth MacMillan Palais Garnier from 22 Oct to 12 Nov 2022 Kontakthof - Pina Bausch Palais Garnier from 02 Dec 2022 to 01 Jan 2023 Démonstrations de l'École de Danse Grand Foyer from 03 to 18 Dec 2022 Le Lac des cygnes - Rudolf Noureev Opéra Bastille from 10 Dec 2022 to 01 Jan 2023 George Balanchine Ballet Impérial - Who cares? Palais Garnier from 06 Feb to 10 Mar 2023 Hommage à Patrick Dupond Défilé du ballet, Le chant du compagnon errant, Vaslaw, Etudes Palais Garnier from 21 to 23 Feb 2023 Bobbi Jene Smith Creation Palais Garnier from 17 to 30 Mar 2023 Spectacle de l'École de Danse Palais Garnier from 15 to 18 Apr 2023 Soirée exceptionnelle en l’honneur de Claude Bessy Palais Garnier on 19 Apr 2023 at 7:30 pm Maurice Béjart Oiseau de feu – chant du compagnon errant - Boléro Opéra Bastille from 20 Apr to 28 May 2023 The Dante Project - Wayne McGregor Palais Garnier from 29 Apr to 31 May 2023 Peeping Tom Guest company Palais Garnier from 07 to 11 Jun 2023 Signes - Carolyn Carlson Opéra Bastille from 19 Jun to 16 Jul 2023 L'Histoire de Manon - Kenneth McMillan Palais Garnier from 19 Jun to 15 Jul 2023 Link to comment
Drew Posted March 30, 2022 Share Posted March 30, 2022 Thank you for sharing...Lots of interesting programming and it is nice to see an evening in honor of Patrick Dupond. Two Macmillan full lengths and only one 19th-century full length is not the balance I would choose for a company that has the resources and talent to do justice to the 19th-century repertory--but I guess I'm not the typical Paris ballet-goer. Also a little surprised the Balanchine program only has the two works. Both are longer (I double checked the running times) but it's still not the heftiest of evenings. Link to comment
miliosr Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 What curious programming . . . By my count, you have five contemporary evenings (Bausch, Carlson, Oyen, McGregor, Smith). The Maurice Bejart tribute evening is welcome and features some of his finest pieces but his is a crossbred repertory between the classical and the contemporary. The choice of Who Cares? on the George Balanchine evening is almost as peculiar as the choice of Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free several seasons ago. Excepting the evenings with the students and the homage to Claude Bessy (never thought I would see that under an Aurelie Dupont directorship), only Rudolf Nureyev's Swan Lake, Balanchine's Ballet Imperial and the Patrick Dupond homage evening (especially Harald Lander's Etudes) are there to uphold the "white tights and tutus" end of things. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted November 4, 2022 Share Posted November 4, 2022 Men's concours day in Paris. Antoine Kirscher has won promotion to premier danseur. Guillaume Diop and Antonio Conforti have been promoted to sujet. Aurélien Gay and Alexandre Boccara have been promoted to coryphée. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Women's concours day. Bleuenn Battistoni has been promoted to première danseuse. She's the dancer who substituted for Alice Renavand mid-act when Renavand was injured during her final Giselle. Clara Mousseigne and Hohyun Kang have been promoted to sujet. Luna Peigné and Hortense Millet-Maurin have been promoted to coryphée. Link to comment
Josette Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Hohyun Kang is currently dancing Mary Vetsera in Mayerling at the Palais Garnier. Link to comment
silvermash Posted November 6, 2022 Author Share Posted November 6, 2022 and Bleuenn Battistoni is dancing Mitzi Caspar Link to comment
Josette Posted November 12, 2022 Share Posted November 12, 2022 On 11/6/2022 at 7:45 AM, silvermash said: and Bleuenn Battistoni is dancing Mitzi Caspar She was beautiful in the role. I saw her dance it two days ago. She has a strong stage presence Link to comment
Buddy Posted February 20, 2023 Share Posted February 20, 2023 (edited) The front of the Opera de Paris, which I consider to be one of the most beautiful buildings in the world, will undergo restauration and be completely cleaned and visible by the time of the Olympic games in Paris. It should be a beautiful sight. “The facade, which overlooks the avenue de l'Opéra, has not been visible for several weeks, due to the erection of scaffolding and the preparation of the site. The Palais Garnier, both a historic monument and one of the two stages of the Paris Opera, will have its main facade undergoing restauration until the end of 2024, for 7.2 million euros, according to a press release published Monday. It "suffers from pollution, significant thermal shocks and the wear of materials that have led to structural disorders", specifies the Opera, estimating the work necessary "to guarantee the durability of the monument and the safety of people, for the next decades”.” https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/patrimoine/le-palais-garnier-va-restaurer-sa-facade-till-a-la-fin-2024-20230220 (Thanks to Haydn at Dansomanie for this information) Edited February 20, 2023 by Buddy Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted February 21, 2023 Share Posted February 21, 2023 A photo of the défilé today at a gala honoring the memory of Patrick Dupond. The company and school were joined on stage by almost 40 retired étoiles. Link to comment
Josette Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 How beautiful. And not the first time, as when Dupond was the POB director, he had done the same thing with (retired) étoiles entering the stage for a bow after the then-current étoiles had all made their own appearances in the Grand Défilé. There is a 13-minute video of it floating about online. At that time, the (retired) étoiles sweeping onstage with incredible grace and aplomb included luminaries (not a full list) Dominique Khalfouni, Claude Bessy, Michel Renaud, Christiane Vaussard, Nina Vyroubova, Ghislaine Thesmar, Jean-Pierre Bonnefous (later Bonnefoux), Cyril Atanassoff, Jean Babilée, Lycette Darsonval, Liane Daydé, Josette Amiel, Carolyn Carlson, Noëlla Pontois, Patrice Bart, Michaël Denard, and Yvette Chauviré. Link to comment
volcanohunter Posted February 22, 2023 Share Posted February 22, 2023 The parade of legends: 2023 https://www.instagram.com/reel/Co94lNCoXJ5/ Link to comment
Josette Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 Thank you, volcanohunter, that was wonderful! Link to comment
Helene Posted February 23, 2023 Share Posted February 23, 2023 That was fantastic! (I could never walk in them, but Florence Clerc had the best shoes.) Link to comment
sofiabn Posted March 8, 2023 Share Posted March 8, 2023 https://www.france.tv/spectacles-et-culture/opera-et-musique-classique/4707304-soiree-george-balanchine-par-le-ballet-de-l-opera-de-paris.html Soirée George Balanchine par le ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris For those who have vpn. Link to comment
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