Photo © Ann Ray / OnP
Photo © Ann Ray / OnP
Hommage à Roland Petit
Palais Garnier - from 29 May to 26 June 2021
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Hommage à Roland Petit
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Palais Garnier - from 29 May to 26 June 2021
2h30 no interval
About
In few words:
“One of our own”, trained at the Paris Opera School of Dance, Roland Petit soon left the company to pursue his chosen pathway as a choreographer and performer. It was with his own company that he first enjoyed success and he did not return to the Paris Opera until 1955 and his premier production of Notre-Dame de Paris. There followed several years of unbroken collaboration, some of them stormy, with new works and new productions. To mark the tenth anniversary of his death, the Opera Ballet pays tribute to him with three of his mythical works: the sulphurous Carmen, the success of which in 1949 catapulted Roland Petit and Zizi Jeanmaire to international fame; Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, a disturbing duet imagined around a libretto by Jean Cocteau and Le Rendez-vous based on a text by Prévert, with sets by Brassaï that bring Fifties Paris back to life. Three works that testify to the choreographer's highly individual trademark: theatrical pieces constructed around literary characters, bringing together on the same stage some of the great artists of the period.
Le Jeune homme et la Mort
Music :
Johann Sebastian Bach - (Passacaille en do mineur, BWV 582)
Libretto :
Jean Cocteau
Choreography :
Conductor :
Pierre Dumoussaud
Set design :
Georges Wakhévitch
Barbara Karinska
Lighting design :
Jean-Michel Désiré
Carmen
Music :
Choreography :
Conductor :
Pierre Dumoussaud
Arrangements :
G. Tommy Desserre
Set design :
Antoni Clavé
Costume design :
Antoni Clavé
Lighting :
Jean-Michel Désiré
Le rendez-vous
To a story by Jacques Prévert
Music :
Joseph Kosma
Choreography :
Conductor :
Pierre Dumoussaud
Set design :
Brassaï
Costume design :
Antoine Mayo
Lighting :
Jean-Michel Désiré
stage curtain :
Pablo Picasso
Performances
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