Iolanta / The Nutcracker - Opera - Season 18/19 Programming

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iolanta / the nutcracker

Palais Garnier - from 09 to 24 May 2019

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iolanta / the nutcracker

Opera - Ballet Piotr Ilyitch Tchaïkovski

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Palais Garnier - from 09 to 24 May 2019

4h00 with 2 intervals

Language : Russian

Surtitle : French / English

Opening night : 9 May 2019

About

In few words:

Presented as a diptych in the historic performance of 1892, Iolanta and The Nutcracker are once again brought together in this Paris Opera production. In Dmitri Tcherniakov’s staging and sets, they become one and the same work: the opera is the prelude to the ballet and the ballet the resolution of the opera. King René’s daughter, whose blindness disappears in the dawn of love, is reborn in Marie, a young girl only distantlyrelated to Marius Petipa’s Clara. The choreography of the ballet by Arthur Pita, Édouard Lock and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, reinforces the strands interweaving Tchaikovsky’s two masterpieces: the awakening of sexuality leads to inevitable grief at the loss of childhood.

Experience the work differently

"The History of Dance" workshops build on the 2018/2019 season’s productions and invites the whole family to discover key periods and trends in the history of dance through artistic practice.

Opening
First part 70 mn
Intermission 30 mn
Second part 75 mn
Intermission 30 mn
Third part 45 mn
End

Iolanta

Opera in one act (1892)

After Henrik Hertz’ King René's Daughter SungIn Russian

Music :

Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski

Libretto :

Modeste Tchaikovski

Conductor :

Tomáš Hanus

Director :

Dmitri Tcherniakov
The Nutcracker

Ballet in two acts (1892)

Music :

Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovski

Libretto :

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Choreography :

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Edouard Lock

Arthur Pita

Director :

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Set design :

Dmitri Tcherniakov

Costume design :

Elena Zaytseva

Lighting design :

Gleb Filshtinsky

Chorus master :

Alessandro Di Stefano
Étoiles, Premiers Danseurs and Corps de Ballet
Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus
Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine / Paris Opera Children's Chorus
Iolanta

Roi René :

Ain Anger

Iolanta :

Valentina Naforniţă

Vaudémont :

Dmytro Popov

Robert :

Artur Ruciński

Ibn Hakia :

Johannes Martin Kränzle

Alméric :

Vasily Efimov

Bertrand :

Gennady Bezzubenkov

Marthe :

Sylvie Brunet-Grupposo

Brigitte :

Adriana Gonzalez

Laure :

Emanuela Pascu