Stéphane Lissner returned briefly to the resignation of Benjamin Millepied, saying “disappointed and sad” while “respecting the artist’s decision” to focus on his work as a choreographer.
He stressed that his departure did not mean stop reforms: “I am very pleased and happy reforms already Aurélie Dupont continue them,” he stressed, noting that there had been “sometimes too impatient” in Millepied method.
Benjamin Millepied, very serious in an elegant black suit, presented a season that deeply carries his mark with an anthology of contemporary ballets especially Americans and only two great classical ballets, “Swan Lake” and ” La Sylphide “.
former Etoile Aurélie Dupont will succeed the choreographer in September, promised during his appointment last Thursday to program more classic ballets, dance to a maximum of 154 dancers.
> the company “must, as it was already, open to contemporary, but not the reverse. Having just like this year, two classic productions of thirteen in a season is perfectly sufficient, in my opinion, “she had said.
American modern dance is honored with 5 ballets of George Balanchine, the founder New York City Ballet where Benjamin Millepied went to school. Two works by William Forsythe, in residence at the Opera, are entering the directory. the young French generation is well represented with Benjamin Millepied himself, Boris and Dimitri Chamblas Charmatz.
opera season includes 11 new shows (against 9 last season). Roberto Alagna will sing for the first time in Paris his cult role of Don José, in the production of “Carmen” in Spanish Calixto Bieito created in Barcelona.
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Also on view, a “Samson and Delilah” signed by Italian Damiano Michieletto with the stars Anita Rachvelishvili and Aleksandrs Antonenko, a “Lohengrin” with Rene Pape and Jonas Kaufmann, also present in “The Tales of Hoffmann” with Ermonela Jaho, Kate Aldrich and Sabine Devieilhe. A “Cosi fan Tutte” staged by the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker will begin a new cycle Mozart / Da Ponte.
Alongside these “tubes” lyrical, former director of La Scala in Milan offers very rare “Eliogabalo” by Francesco Cavalli, told the young french director Thomas Jolly, 33, and Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “the snow girl”, which will be staged by the Russian Dmitry Chernyakov, known for his radical reinterpretations. A work “full of eroticism not a children’s story,” said the Russian.
Opera strenna a cycle of world premieres from masterpieces of French literature with “Cheat -dead “according to The human Comedy of Balzac, told the Italian composer Luca Francesconi and Belgian director Guy Cassiers. Follow “Berenice” Racine and “The Satin Slipper” by Claudel.
“From 1667 until 2017 with Eliogabalo with Luca Francesconi one embraces five centuries, 350 years of music,” said Stéphane Lissner.
> Opera continues its effort in 2016/17 for young people, who will benefit as this season premieres at 10 euros (15 shows). “The obsession for a director is to make opera more accessible,” said Lissner.
A new category of seats to 50 euros is created, while the highest rates climb some evenings. 282,000 seats on nearly a million in total will be offered for less than 50 euros next season.
The Paris Opera ends fiscal 2015 “in the balance” despite the impact of the November bombings, announced its director. The Opera was immediately set up security gates and after “a hole” in November, the two rooms of Garnier and Bastille, covering 4,700 seats in total, were sold out in December.
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