Paris Opera Ballet 2024-2025 Season, Shows, Reviews

byCherilyn J. Lee

January 1, 2020 - Updated on December 30, 2024

Paris Opera Ballet

♦ Location: Paris – France

♦ Artistic Director: José Carlos Martínez

♦ Orchestra: The Paris Opera Orchestra

♦ Affiliated School: Paris Opera Ballet School

♦ Founded in 1669 by the court of Louis XIV

♦ Official Website of Paris Opera Ballet

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Paris Opera Ballet 2024-2025 Season

The Paris Opera Ballet 2024-2025 season features the return of Rudolf Nureyev’s The Sleeping Beauty after a decade-long hiatus, dramatic full-length ballets, contemporary works, and pieces that are making their company premieres.

Launching the dance season, the traditional Ballet Parade brings together the students of the Paris Opera Ballet School and all the dancers of the Company. The evening’s program also includes William Forsythe’s Rearray and Blake Works I and Johan Inger’s Impasse which also comprise the triple-bill program that follows. Rearray and Impasse make their company debut, the former a reworking specifically for Paris Opera Ballet dancers, the latter interweaving classical line with contemporary vocabulary.

The full-length classical ballets scheduled are:

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Mayerling, inspired by this mystery behind the death of the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and set to music by Franz Liszt
Pierre Lacotte’s reconstruction of Joseph Mazilier’s Paquita
John Cranko’s Onegin, based on Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel Eugene Onegin
Rudolph Nureyev’s The Sleeping Beauty, which has not been seen on the Paris Opera stage in over a decade
Manuel Legris’ (Artistic Director of La Scala Theatre Ballet) Sylvia set to a score by Léo Delibes

Along with a world premiere by Hofesh Shechter, the season will also see:

Play (Alexander Ekman), which addresses adults and wonders what we do with our childhood games set to Mikael Karlsson’s jazzy music
OCD Love (Sharon Eyal), a 2015 piece inspired by a text from American poet-slammer Neil Hilborn whose difficulty-of-loving theme will be adapted for the Paris Opera dancers
Appartement (Mats Ek), a look into the complexity of human relationships set to music by Fleshquartet

Source: Paris Opera Ballet