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The Sleeping Beauty
Opéra Bastille - from 02 to 10 September 2016
The Sleeping Beauty
Guest Company - American Ballet Theatre
Opéra Bastille - from 02 to 10 September 2016
2h50 with 2 intervals
About
In few words:
« The Princess shall pierce her hand with a spindle, but, instead of dying, she shall only fall into a deep sleep, which shall last a hundred years. »Charles Perrault, Histoires ou contes du temps passé, 1697
Alexei Ratmansky looks back to the past on an artistic journey he set out on when he became Director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet and that he continues today as artist in residence at the American Ballet Theatre. He has chosen to revive The Sleeping Beauty, a gem of the classical repertoire, as it was originally performed in 1890 at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. A delicate undertaking for an art where transmission rarely takes written form, even though dance notation, such as Stepanov’s, already existed. Based on this notation as well as the correspondence between Marius Petipa and Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, Alexei Ratmansky’s work is extremely faithful to the original. The sets and costumes are those created by Léon Bakst for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, who first revived the ballet out of Russia in 1921. A lavish production from the American Ballet Theatre which is returning to the Paris Opera after twenty-five years.
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La Belle au bois dormant
Ballet in a prologue and three acts (1890)
Costume inspired by the original designs of Léon Bakst
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Music
Piotr Ilyitch Tchaïkovski -
Choreography
Marius Petipa -
Choreography
Alexei Ratmansky -
Director
Alexei Ratmansky -
Artistic director
Kevin McKenzie -
Conductor
Ormsby Wilkins -
Conductor
Charles Barker -
Conductor
David LaMarche -
Set design
Richard Hudson -
Costume design
Richard Hudson -
Lighting design
James Ingalls
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Performances
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Gallery
Videos clips
Audio clips
La Belle au bois dormant - American Ballet Theatre
Backstage
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Podcast
Podcast The Sleeping Beauty - American Ballet Theatre
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Podcast
Podcast The Sleeping Beauty - American Ballet Theatre
"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique
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"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" offers original incursions into the season thanks to broadcasts produced by France Musique and the Paris Opera. For each opera or ballet production, Judith Chaine (opera) and Stéphane Grant (dance), present the works and artists you are going to discover when you attend performances in our theatres.
