silvermash Posted March 23, 2024 Posted March 23, 2024 Rearray/Blakes Work 1(Forsythe)/Impasse (Inger) Mayerling (MacMillan) Paquita (Lacotte) Bastille Opera Play (Ekman) Dance school Demonstrations Onéguine (Cranko) La Belle au bois dormant (Noureev) Bastille Opera OCD Love (Creation by Eyal)/Appartement (Ek) Continuo (Tudor)/Napoli Tarentelle (Bournonville)/7 danses grecques (Béjart) Dance school show Sylvia (Legris) Creation by Schechter
Josette Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 18 hours ago, Danielle said: No Swan Lake? Swan Lake is being performed June 21-July 14, 2024. The casting is posted online, subject to change.
Helene Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 The June-July performances are part of the current season. It doesn't look like it's being performed next year.
Josette Posted April 3, 2024 Posted April 3, 2024 2 hours ago, Helene said: The June-July performances are part of the current season. It doesn't look like it's being performed next year. Yes, I am aware of that. POB does not dance Swan Lake every season.
volcanohunter Posted October 14, 2024 Posted October 14, 2024 (edited) I'm a little slow in posting, but Laura Hecquet retired last week during the POB's défilé. She was to have given her final performance in Mayerling in November, but injury prevented that. https://www.operadeparis.fr/en/news/etoile-dancer-laura-hecquet-bids-farewell The story was updated with photos of Hecquet under the traditional shower of star-shaped confetti. I was a bit surprised by the news, because Hecquet is 40 years of age, two years short of the mandatory retirement age. Mathieu Ganio has also indicated on social media that this season will be his last, which would mean that he's chosen to retire a year ahead of schedule. (I found it amusing that Danses avec la plume singled out Hecquet's "Anglo-Saxon" repertoire, meaning Balanchine, Robbins, Ratmansky and Wheeldon, because while all the repertoire in question was created in the United States, only Wheeldon fits the description for "WASP.") https://www.dansesaveclaplume.com/1124981/en-coulisse/adieux-a-la-scene-de-la-danseuse-etoile-laura-hecquet-le-10-octobre/ Edited October 14, 2024 by volcanohunter
FPF Posted October 15, 2024 Posted October 15, 2024 I saw Laura Hecquet once, almost exactly 10 years ago as Paquita when the POB came to Montreal and I road-tripped up to see it. I think she had not yet been promoted to Etoile at that time. She was lovely in that role.
silvermash Posted October 15, 2024 Author Posted October 15, 2024 POB dancers can benefit from retraining leave the year before they reach retirement age, so I imagine they decided to take advantage of this opportunity. Etoiles don't usually do it (well, it's the first time I've noticed it) but it's very common in the corps de ballet.
Jayne Posted October 16, 2024 Posted October 16, 2024 On 10/14/2024 at 2:55 AM, volcanohunter said: (I found it amusing that Danses avec la plume singled out Hecquet's "Anglo-Saxon" repertoire, meaning Balanchine, Robbins, Ratmansky and Wheeldon, because while all the repertoire in question was created in the United States, only Wheeldon fits the description for "WASP.") You can’t even call them strictly Russian: Balanchine has Georgian roots, Robbins (Rabinowitz) had Jewish roots in Belarus, Ratmansky has Ukrainian roots.
William Hood Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 Can anybody tell me how to get a ticket to Mathieu Ganio's Adieux in Onegin? I know it's impossible, but there's no harm in asking.
William Hood Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 Dumb question that I asked before I looked at the calendar. Every performance is sold out. Of course.
Xiaoyi Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 1 hour ago, William Hood said: Can anybody tell me how to get a ticket to Mathieu Ganio's Adieux in Onegin? I know it's impossible, but there's no harm in asking. Check the official POB ticket exchange page once in a while. Last-minute changes are common in a 2,000-seat theatre. https://bourse.operadeparis.fr/selection/event/date?productId=10229053873727
Josette Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 4 hours ago, William Hood said: Dumb question that I asked before I looked at the calendar. Every performance is sold out. Of course. I went online just now at the POB website and it shows that you can create an alert. I did that several years ago and was contacted and able to purchase tickets to a performance. I am seeing two performances of Onegin in Paris a few weeks before Ganio's March 1 Adieux Spectacle, as well as three performances of Onegin by The Royal Ballet during the same week. Casting is not yet posted, but I am of course hoping that one of my two performances will have Ganio as the lead.
gigi Posted November 25, 2024 Posted November 25, 2024 Caveat that it has been many years, but I once acquired tickets to POB by going in person to the box office and putting my name on a list for unutilized press tickets that became available about an hour before the show.
volcanohunter Posted December 15, 2024 Posted December 15, 2024 Ludmila Pagliero has also announced her imminent retirement in April. https://www.instagram.com/p/DDj0u4UIOiK/?igsh=ZnJraGR3cjBqOG84
volcanohunter Posted January 11 Posted January 11 On 11/25/2024 at 10:48 AM, William Hood said: Can anybody tell me how to get a ticket to Mathieu Ganio's Adieux in Onegin? I know it's impossible, but there's no harm in asking. I posted about this on the video forum, but Mathieu Ganio's second-to-last Onegin will be livestreamed on Paris Opera Play on Friday 21 February. https://play.operadeparis.fr/en/p/onegin
rmp_king Posted January 31 Posted January 31 Does anyone have any insights into casting for Manuel Legris' Sylvia? Approximately when does POB release this information?
volcanohunter Posted February 5 Posted February 5 The Onegin livestream on 21 February has been canceled. I don't know why, but in my opinion it's a black eye for the POB.
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