♦ Location: Paris – France
♦ Artistic Director: José Carlos Martínez
♦ Orchestra: The Paris Opera Orchestra
♦ Affiliated School: Paris Opera Ballet School
♦ Founded in 1661 by Louis XIV as the Royal Academy of Dance.
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
Paris Opera Ballet Upcoming Performances
Paris Opera Ballet: Opening Gala
Paris Opera Ballet: William Forsythe / Johan Inger
Paris Opera Ballet: Mayerling
Paris Opera Ballet: Paquita
Paris Opera Ballet: Play
Paris Opera Ballet: Onegin
Paris Opera Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
Paris Opera Ballet: Sharon Eyal / Mats Ek
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