Founded under Louis XIV, not only the Sun King, but also the dancing King, the Dance School of the Paris Opera celebrates its 300th birthday! For three hundred years, the Ballet School has carried out its mission: to pass on its traditions to the artists of the future. Besides the demonstrations, the performance evokes the French school and its evolution.
Conductor | Marius Stieghorst
The Paris Opera Ballet & students of the Paris Opera Ballet School
The Paris Conservatoire Graduates’ Orchestra
Program
D’ores et déjà
Music by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Choreographer | Béatrice Massin and Nicolas Paul
Costume designer | Olivier Bériot
Lighting designer | Madjid Hakimi
With Gil Isoart and the Pupils of the Paris Opera Ballet School
Walpurgis Night
Extract from act 5 of Faust
Music by Charles Gounod
Choreographer | Claude Bessy, after Léo Staats
Lighting designer | Madjid Hakimi
With the Pupils of the Paris Opera Ballet School
Célébration
Music by Daniel François Esprit Auber, arrangements by Michel Quéval
Choreographer | Pierre Lacotte
Costume designer | Agnès Letestu
Lighting designer | Madjid Hakimi
Danseurs étoiles | Ludmila Pagliero, Mathieu Ganio and Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris
Péchés de Jeunesse
Music by Gioacchino Rossini
Choreographer | Jean-Guillaume Bart
Costume designer | Philippe Binot
Lighting designer | François-Eric Valentin
With the Pupils of the Paris Opera Ballet School
Aunis
Music by Maurice Pacher
Choreographer | Jacques Garnier, directed by Wilfried Romoli
Dancers of Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris | Simon Valastro, Axel Ibot, Mickaël Lafon
Diatonic accordion | Christian Pacher
Chromatic accordion | Gérard Baraton