Chamber music concerts by musicians of the Paris Opera Orchestra  

This edition of the Opening Gala brings together the Étoile dancers for an exceptional performance.   

Operas ‘arias and songs inspired by the traditional and folkloric repertoire.

The most popular opera of its time and acclaimed since its creation, Il Trovatore single-handedly illustrates the magic of opera. Returning to the stage of the Opéra Bastille in a production by Àlex Ollé, one of the six artistic directors of the Catalan collective La Fura dels Baus, this opera with its numerous twists and turns has all the ingredients of a cloak-and-dagger novel, including castles, soldiers, burnings at the stake, and outlaws...
Àlex Ollé has chosen to set Il Trovatore in the context of the First World War, thus justifying the extreme situations which the characters have to face: love, jealousy, hate and the desire for vengeance… Based around Antonio García Gutiérrez’s Spanish classic El Trovador ( 1836), the intense, complex libretto is transcended by the beauty of the singing and the director’s turbulent yet visionary vitality.

Codified in France during the reign of Louis XIV, over the course of time the language of classical dance has been constantly articulated, developed and reinvented by choreographers. It is this language, in all its purity, that Lander brings to play in Études, inviting the audience to follow the dancers' barre work in the shadows, before the entire corps de ballet comes into play in the full light of day. With In the Night, Robbins brings a neo-classical slant to this language and, to the strains of Chopin's Nocturnes, three love duets unfold against a backdrop of starry night. Reinterpreting the classical style through a subtle play of shifts and swaying hips, Forsythe's The Vertiginous Thrill Of Exactitude pays tribute to this great legacy while propelling it in new directions.

This choreography by Salim Mzé Hamadi Moissi questions the intimate attachment with the native land mixing hip hop and traditional dances.

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The musicians of the Academy and the Paris Opera Orchestra offer school-goers a series of encounters: opportunities to explore wide-ranging and sometimes unusual repertoires and familiarise themselves with various instruments.

The musicians and members of the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus are offering a series of lunchtime concerts preceded by an introductory meeting. The complete programme is available on the website at operadeparis.fr from September 1st onwards.    

From Carl Loewe to Hogo Wolf, the artists of the Academy invite you to explore the romantic German ballad with its historical and mythical heroes.  

First performed at the Cairo Opera in 1871 to celebrate the opening of the Suez Canal, Aida draws us into the fantasy of a reconstructed Antiquity. At the heart of the plot, an impossible choice between love and patriotic duty: A captive Ethiopian princess and an Egyptian soldier betray their people, defy a powerful rival and unite until death. Marked by the contrast between a theatrical extravaganza and the transition towards a more intimate, personal drama, Verdi’s score manages to distinguish the inner angst of its protagonists from the imposing historical setting. The work brings together several themes dear to the composer: nostalgia for a lost homeland, deliverance through death, the contrast between a dispiriting present and an idealized elsewhere, the stifling reach of religious and political power, the regulating factors in a world intentionally littered with pitfalls.

For her Paris Opera debut, Dutch director Lotte de Beer has chosen to cast a critical eye on the European portrayal of colonised peoples, encouraging us to rethink our relationship with aesthetic productions of the past and present.

Chamber music concerts by musicians of the Paris Opera Orchestra  

The musicians of the Academy and the Paris Opera Orchestra offer school-goers a series of encounters: opportunities to explore wide-ranging and sometimes unusual repertoires and familiarise themselves with various instruments.

A night around the works of Tchaïkovski, Rimski-Korsakov and Rachmaninov and the Jewish songs by Chostakovitch a suite of eleven pieces from the traditional poetry.  

Victor Hugo inspired a lot of composers. Discover his poetic works through this recital.    

Taking part in an artistic experimental workshop a few days before the performance, and experiencing art through singing, dance or theater, is an ideal approach for the children, the teenagers and their parents to understand the vision of the artists performing at the Amphithéâtre.

Booking conditions:

• Workshop reserved for ticket holders (for the performance in question)
• A workshop will be proposed when booking your performance ticket
• Workshops are reserved to children and accompanying adults
• Unaccompanied children are not allowed
  
  

Prices:

• Adult €5
• Under 15 €4

In this piece specifically created for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1994, the choreographer Angelin Preljocaj finds a subtle balance between the classical genius of Mozart’s music and the modernity of his choreographic language. The perfectly chiselled sets evoke the elegance and refinement of a French‑style garden while the costumes draw inspiration from the Age of Enlightenment. Advancing to the caprices of an imaginary Carte du Tendre and guided by strange gardeners, the dancers awaken to love, from first encounters to seduction, from timidity to attraction, from resistance to the sweet appeal of abandon in sublimely soaring “pas de deux”. Even today, this timeless work continues to explore the codes of love and the way human feelings develop.  

I want a treasure, which contains them all! I want youth! Frustrated by the futile quest for knowledge, the erudite old Faust sells his soul to the devil in exchange for eternal youth and the beautiful Marguerite… Reworking the legend which Goethe popularised, Gounod focuses on the love story and elevates the significance of Marguerite’s fall and ultimate salvation. His decision to lighten the philosophical scope of the narrative allowed him to balance scenes where the supernatural called for something visually spectacular with a parallel microcosm governed by inner actions and feelings. Gounod’s score is a tour de force of melodic invention whose vocal composition reveals the composer’s skill at conveying sincere and immediate emotion.

For his Paris Opera debut, German director Tobias Kratzer reflects on contemporary society’s obsession for eternal youth. With its sophisticated scenography, his production oscillates between hyperrealism and magic, the world of today and the eerie atmosphere of German romanticism.   

After O U I #1, the choreographer and dancer Régine Chopinot continues her residency at the Academy. All along the season, workshop of movement and choreography will be given to people in situation of exile, learning French and in a high level of poverty. Through the practice of dancing, where the movement meet the ability to speak for oneself, this project’s aim is to hand some specific tools for personal, human and societal fulfillment. This project emphasizes orality and movement, it carries a body and expression awareness and creates a new language for communities and individualities. Taming and naming the bodies to find back a unity, naming the space to feel grounded. This public restitution is the result of a week of a creative workshop. The public will discover at the end of the restitution excerpts of the new documentary by Jean-Baptiste Warluzel.  

Pingouin* is the wonderful story of a penguin traveling the world. Virgile Dagneaux mixes dance, mime and tap dance to tell us this tale about searching our limits.

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The happiest melodies and songs are often composed on dancing rhythms like tango, waltz, foxtrot, bolero…

The musicians in residency will give a concert of chamber music that will show different instrumental combinations such as the solo, the quintet and the quartet.  

Roland Petit’s first piece for the Paris Opera Ballet in 1965, Notre-Dame de Paris brings together all the ingredients of a grand spectacle. The ballet was inspired by Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, with its colourful characters: the beautiful Esmerelda, the touching Quasimodo, the machiavellian Frollo and the cynical Pheobus. With colourful and graphic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent and sets by the painter René Allio that recreate the splendour of the Parisian cathedral, the choreography, sustained by the ensemble of the company’s dancers, translates all the expressive power of characters plunged into a saga of love and death. To mark the tenth anniversary of the choreographer’s death, the Corps de Ballet revives this magnificent fresco in dance on the stage of Opera Bastille.