Maurice Béjart - Ballet - Season 22/23 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

  • Ballet

    Maurice Béjart

    Opéra Bastille - from 21 April to 28 May 2023

    Agathe Poupeney / OnP

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Maurice Béjart

Opéra Bastille - from 21 April to 28 May 2023

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Ballet

Maurice Béjart

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Opéra Bastille - from 21 April to 28 May 2023

1h45 with 2 intervals

  • Opening night : 21 Apr. 2023

    Pre‑opening for the young : 20 Apriil 2023

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The partnership between Maurice Béjart and the Paris Opera lasted for over forty years and provided the institution with more than twenty pieces. In a tribute to this choreographer who died fifteen years ago, the Paris Opera Ballet presents three works initially created during the seventies and which all shine with equal choreographic and musical intensity. For The Firebird, an ode to youth designed for the company’s dancers, the choreographer took up Stravinsky’s powerful score bringing out its quintessence. Young “partisans” recharge their ardour and their energy at the well‑spring of life represented by the Firebird. Written for two male dancers, Le Chant du compagnon errant is an intimate work to a song cycle by Mahler highlighting all the rigour and grace of Béjart’s language. Finally, the mythical Boléro espouses Ravel’s eponymous score. Surrounded by dancers, alone on a table, the principal performer – male or female – is transported by the voluptuous rhythms into an erotic and hypnotic dance that is like a vibrant call to life.

  • Opening
  • First part 20 mn
  • Intermission 20 mn
  • Second part 20 mn
  • Intermission 20 mn
  • Third part 25 mn
  • End

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Backstage

  • Power and Vulnerability

    Video

    Power and Vulnerability

  • Podcast Maurice Béjart

    Podcast

    Podcast Maurice Béjart

  • Maurice Béjart in tune with the times

    Video

    Maurice Béjart in tune with the times

  • In the footsteps of Boléro

    Video

    In the footsteps of Boléro

Power and Vulnerability

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Video

Power and Vulnerability

Guillaume Diop and Marc Moreau rehearse Le Chant du compagnon errant

By Antony Desvaux

In the show dedicated to Maurice Béjart, Guillaume Diop and Marc Moreau perform Le Chant du compagnon errant, a ballet created in 1971 for Rudolf Nureyev and Paolo Bortoluzzi.

The two "Étoiles" recount their work in rehearsal. They provide a few keys to the understanding of this pas de deux, namely deciphering the link between the lyrics of Gustav Mahler's Lieder and the choreography's movements. Finally, they discuss the two roles that carry this ballet: those of the experienced red character and the juvenile blue one.

© Agathe Poupeney / OnP

Podcast Maurice Béjart

Podcast

Podcast Maurice Béjart

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique

By Charlotte Landru-Chandès

"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, Charlotte Landru-Chandès (opera) and Jean-Baptiste Urbain (dance), present the works and artists you are going to discover when you attend performances in our theatres.

© Julien Benhamou / OnP

Maurice Béjart in tune with the times

11:51’

Video

Maurice Béjart in tune with the times

Portrait of the choreographer by Jean Pierre Pastori

By Antony Desvaux

On the occasion of the revival at the Opéra Bastille of three of Maurice Béjart's great ballets, L'Oiseau de feu, Le Chant du compagnon errant and Boléro, dance historian and writer Jean Pierre Pastori draws a portrait of the choreographer. He looks back at Béjart's formative years, his intellectual dimension, his neo-classical language and the way he rethought the role of the male dancer. Jean Pierre Pastori then recounts the genesis of the three ballets on the bill this season and underlines the importance of these works in Béjart's career.

In the footsteps of Boléro

05:50’

Video

In the footsteps of Boléro

Encounter with the musicians of the Paris Opera Orchestra

By Clara Guedj

In 1928, the Russian dancer Ida Rubinstein commissioned Maurice Ravel to write music for a "ballet with a Spanish flavour". Composed in the space of a few months, Boléro was premiered on 22 November at the Palais Garnier and quickly became a worldwide success. In 1961, Maurice Béjart devoted one of his most iconic choreographies to this work, which entered the Paris Opera Ballet's repertoire in 1970.

To coincide with its revival at the Opéra Bastille, Jean-Baptiste Leclère, principal percussionist with the Paris Opera Orchestra, and Jean Raffard, principal trombone, discuss the work, its history and the score, and offer us their experience as musicians.

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