From the Palais Garnier to the Opéra Bastille: let yourself be transported by the 24/25 Paris Opera season.
Ballet
Mayerling
Kenneth MacMillan
Palais Garnier
from October 29 to November 16, 2024
Opera
The Magic Flute
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Opéra Bastille
from November 02 to 23, 2024
Opera
The Rake's Progress
Igor Stravinsky
Palais Garnier
from November 30 to December 23, 2024
Opera
Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
Opéra Bastille
from December 01, 2024 to June 12, 2025
Ballet
Paquita
Pierre Lacotte
Opéra Bastille
from December 05, 2024 to January 04, 2025
Ballet
Play
Alexander Ekman
Palais Garnier
from December 07, 2024 to January 04, 2025
Mayerling is the name of the hunting lodge in which the heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Rudolf, was found dead in 1889. Why did the son of Emperor Franz Joseph and Elisabeth (the famous Sissi) commit suicide in the company of his mistress, the young Mary Vetsera?
In 1791, disappointed by the fickle Viennese who preferred other composers, particularly Italian ones, Mozart accepted a proposal from his friend Emanuel Schikaneder, the director of the Theater auf der Wieden, to write an opera in German for the less bourgeois suburban audiences.
“It’s a magnificent, grandiose subject, featuring one of the most extraordinary characters ever created in the theatre and in the world”. With these words, Verdi asked Francesco Maria Piave to write a libretto inspired by Victor Hugo’s Le roi s’amuse.
“When I recreate a ballet, I search for the fragrance of the period”, said dancer and choreographer Pierre Lacotte, who died in 2023. In Paquita, that perfume is the heady scent of Spain, mixed with elegant French fragrances.
Une piscine de balles vertes, des cubes géants suspendus au plafond, des parties de ballons et des courses-poursuites à en perdre haleine… Dans Play, Alexander Ekman interpelle les adultes et se demande ce que nous faisons des jeux de notre enfance.
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