Replacing an injured Nicolas Le Riche, the Canadian-born Evan McKie of the Stuttgart Company took over the title role shortly before the opening performance.
Drawing on highlights from his previous films on Alicia Markova, Nina Vyroubova and Violette Verdy, film maker Dominique Delouche adds new footage of former Paris Opera étoile and Balanchine muse Ghislaine Thesmar.
With costumes by Christian Lacroix and jewels by Swarovski, the Jean-Guillaume Bart choreographed ballet La Source at the Opéra National de Paris combined the chic, the elegant and the spectacular into a flamboyantly scintillating evening of dance.
While the retro-chic of "Mad Men" ruled at the recent Paris Fashion Week, this, helas, did not translate as well for the two signature works proposed by Serge Lifar and Alex Mantansky for the opening of the new Paris Opera Ballet season.
Despite the brilliant and sensational technique of the Russian dancers, unequal casting and a sometimes incoherent production sadly marked Alexei Fadeyechev's new version of 'Don Quixote'.
The work, inspired by a song by Violeta Parra, was the result of Pina Bausch’s two week stay in 2008 at the Villa Grimaldi in Chile where Pinochet’s army imprisoned and tortured thousands of people in the 1970’s.
The Paris Opera Ballet offers up their exquisitely light, yet deeply moving, production of Kaguyahime, Jiri Kylian’s retelling of the Japanese fable, "The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter."
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