Le Serment d’Opéra

Le Serment d’Opéra

Le Serment d'Opéra introduces the lyrical and choreographic arts to everyday hospital life. In partnership with Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, the Sainte-Anne hospital group, the 15-20 Hôpital national de la vision and the Atelier Cognacq-Jay, the Académie is setting up discovery programs at the Opéra national de Paris for patients and caregivers, with workshops in artistic practice, visits to theaters and access to performances.

Le Serment d’Opéra

Artistic practice workshops

Artistic workshops are led by Paris Opera Ballet dancers Marion Gautier de Charnacé, Takeru Coste and Antonin Monié, choral conductor Isabelle Briard and choreographer Rodolphe Fouillot. Organized in partner establishments and at the Opéra, these workshops enable beneficiaries to develop relationships with others, and create essential sharing spaces for patients and caregivers.

The program helps de-stigmatize hospital structures and aims to improve patients' social reintegration. 

The exhibition

The exhibition Le Serment d'Opéra, presented from May 17 to September 21, 2024 at the Carré de Baudouin, is the fruit of a partnership between the Centre hospitalier Sainte-Anne of the GHU Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences and the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris.

To accompany this program of artistic and cultural education for patients and carers, the Académie de l'Opéra national de Paris commissioned photographer Frédéric Stucin to record the encounter between participants and artists from the Opéra national de Paris. The artistic proposal is based on three formats: diptychs produced at the Palais Garnier, bringing together patients and nursing staff with dancers from the Ballet; close-up portraits of the participants; snapshots of bodies in movement during artistic practice workshops at the Opéra Bastille and Palais Garnier.

Frédéric Stucin

The photographer produced the "Les Interstices" series in 2022, which will be published by Editions Filigrane and exhibited in Strasbourg. In 2020, his "Le Décor" series, shot in Paris during the confinement, won the Eurazeo prize. It will be exhibited at the Hôtel de l'Industrie from April 2022. Her photographs have been the subject of several exhibitions, most recently at the Villa Pérochon in Niort, at the Portrait(s) festival in Vichy, and at the Hangar Photo Art Center in Brussels.

More recently, he co-wrote and co-directed a short photographic film with Olivier Jahan, La Femme de 8h47, produced by Vagabonds Films and Majie Films and scheduled for release in spring 2022. In 2023, he will exhibit Les Interstices in Strasbourg. More recently, he has been nominated and won numerous awards: in 2021 and 2022 for the Prix Nièpce, in 2022 for the Prix Swiss Life à quatre Mains, and in 2023 for the Prix Leica Oskar Barnack.

With Radioscopie de la France: regards sur un pays traversé par la crise sanitaire, he won the BNF's major photographic commission for 2022. He has published several books: Endorphine (éditions Filigranes, 2021) with Didier Daeninckx, Only Bleeding (éditions du Bec en l'air, 2019) and Trois étoiles (Musée Nicéphore Niépce exhibition catalog, 2016). Author Marie NDiaye, winner of the 2009 Goncourt Prize, signs the introductory text of her latest book, La Source, published by Maison CF.

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