Dorothée Gilbert

Ballet in a prologue and three acts based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas fils; music by Chopin. The passionate tale of Marguerite Gautier and Armand Duval unfolds ingeniously through a drama-within-a-drama as they meet at the theatre during a performance of Manon Lescaut. So begin their romantic adventures in Paris, brought to life by Neumeier’s intense and refined choreographic language. Chopin’s ravishing music highlights this exceptional neo-classical ballet, featuring the star dancers of the Paris Opéra Ballet. This lavish production, filmed live at the Palais Garnier in High Definition and full surround sound, is all about love, passion, danger and glorious dancing from one of the best ballet companies in the world. John Neumeier has created a ballet in which emotions go crescendo … Agnes Letestu, the great dramatic heroine, triumphs in this ballet danced to music by Chopin.

La pandémie de CoViD-19 a tenu les danseurs de l'Opéra national de Paris éloignés de leurs studios de répétitions et de la scène pendant de longs mois.

Frederick Wiseman, pionnier du cinéma documentaire a installé sa caméra durant douze semaines au cœur de l'Opéra de Paris. Des ateliers de couture aux représentations publiques où brillent les étoiles, LA DANSE nous entraine dans les coulisses de la prestigieuse institution et nous montre le travail de tous ceux qui donnent corps au quotidien à des spectacles d’exception.

Julien Meyzindi est danseur interprète sujet à l’Opéra de Paris. Il y est entré à l’âge de douze ans. Aujourd’hui, il a quarante-deux ans et il doit partir, c’est comme ça, c’est la règle.

Emma est sur le point d’être nommée danseuse étoile à l’Opéra de Paris. La jeune femme, pourtant, semble soucieuse. Car si le succès l’attend désormais, un autre événement pourrait bien remettre en cause son rêve de toujours.

Premiered in Paris in 1870, and inspired by the fantastical writings of E.T.A Hoffmann, Coppélia tells the story of a young man who falls in love with an exquisite automaton. He is finally brought to his senses by his fiancée. In his production from the magnificent Palais Garnier, choreographer Patrice Bart reveals his interpretation of the ballet.

In 2012, the Opéra national de Paris mounted a new production of Rudolf Nureyev's celebrated re-interpretation of the Minkus–Petipa ballet Don Quixote. Goya-inspired sets by Alexandre Beliaev and costumes by Elena Rivkina, and a ravishing performance by the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris under the direction of Kevin Rhodes make for an unforgettable adventure into this magical and comical world.

Given as a world premiere at the Paris Opera House in 2010, La Petite Danseuse de Degas pays tribute to the "dancers' painter"... This ballet by Patrice Bart, who worked as a Ballet master for the Opéra de Paris from 1987 to 2011, stages the young ballerina who posed for Degas's canvas and also for his sculpture The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer, currently exhibited at the Orsay Museum.

Raymonda is an emotional three-act ballet with music by Alexandre Glazunov. Premiered at the Mariinsky Theater in 1898 featuring choreography by Marius Petipa, the ballet is performed here with Rudolf Nureyev's adapted choreography for his 2008 production at the Opéra de Paris, starring the great Marie-Agnès Gillot, José Martinez, and Nicolas Le Riche.

Le décor de Sergei Prokofiev du conte de fées "Cendrillon" a été créé au Théâtre Bolchoï de Moscou en 1945. En 1986, Rudolf Noureev, alors directeur du ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, a chorégraphié à nouveau le ballet et transposé l'histoire dans un cinéma privé, avec des décors rappelant Fritz «Metropolis» de Lang. ARTE présente la performance de l'Opéra de Paris à partir du 31 décembre 2018.

In 2008, the Opéra national de Paris honored the legendary Jerome Robbins. Though the general public may remember him primarily for his staging and choreography of Bernstein’s West Side Story, Robbins was also a brilliant ballet choreographer. In this production, we discover three of his works of classical ballet—En sol, In the Night, and The Concert—paired with Benjamin Millepied’s Triade.

A staging of Adolphe Adam's ballet "Giselle" recorded at the Palais Garnier.

Anastasia, 18 ans est une jeune et belle danseuse de ballet à l'opéra Garnier. Elle devient l'obsession d'un homme défiguré vivant dans le labyrinthe souterrain de l'Opéra.