On the ballet side, it’s a true celebration with a repertoire festival. Masterpieces of the white ballet such as Tchaikovsky‘s The Sleeping Beauty by Rudolf Nureyev or Pierre Lacotte’s Paquita are mostly at the Opéra Bastille, but the Palais Garnier also includes great classical dance masterpieces in its 2024-2025 ballet season. Classical dance returns with strength in the programming with works like Onegin, the masterpiece of the great choreographer John Cranko. Aficionados will also not want to miss Sylvia, and should book their tickets early! Set to the music of the highly esteemed Léo Delibes, Sylvia is the very first ballet created at the Palais Garnier, which will be presented in the version by Manuel Legris, a famous Étoile dancer of the Paris National Opera and now the renowned director of the La Scala Ballet in Milan. This addition to the repertoire is an event. Other shows that quickly sell out include the season‘s Gala with the Ballet parade, as well as the Demonstrations and the Dance School Show, which are doubled by two exceptional performances. The first unites Maurice Béjart, August Bournonville, and Antony Tudor, while the second features the prestigious names of choreographers William Forsythe and Johan Inger. Throughout the rich 2024-2025 season, dance and ballet enthusiasts will flock to evenings where the new generation meets more established choreographers. Mats Ek’s brilliant Appartement is paired with Sharon Eyal’s OCD Love. All ballet lovers await the creation of the brilliant Hofesh Shechter, and those who have not yet seen it will benefit from the revival to buy their tickets to see the delightful Play by Alexander Ekman, a must-see. Speaking of essentials, Mayerling, the absolute classic masterpiece by choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, will undoubtedly bring a few tears, especially when performed by the Paris National Opera Ballet, one of the most prestigious companies in the world.

Also noteworthy, the chamber music concerts offered by members of the Paris National Opera Orchestra always enjoy great success. Recitals make a notable return to the Palais Garnier.

Music lovers who are fond of great voices will book their seats in advance to not miss the recitals of Benjamin Bernheim, the greatest French tenor of his generation, or the sublime Elina Garanca in French and international melodies. Two great stars are making their return to Garnier, Natalie Dessay and Renée Fleming, an event! Among the new opera productions at the Palais Garnier, there will be laughter with the comic opera that opens the season. Offenbach‘s The Brigands is directed by Barrie Kosky, who has brightened the nights of the Komische Oper in Berlin with his whimsy. The superb cast motivates reservations. What promises to be the season’s great success is almost sold out for the fall of 2024 but will fortunately be revived at the end of the season. One of the most anticipated opera performances at the Palais Garnier for the 2024-2025 season is Rameau’s Castor and Pollux, bringing together a perfect cast with Reinoud Van Mechelen, Marc Mauillon, Jeanine De Bique, and Stéphanie d’Oustrac under the expert direction of the brilliant Teodor Currentzis. This superb baroque opera is eagerly awaited by all specialists. Another anticipated production is the revival of Stravinsky‘s The Rake’s Progress, a chance to rediscover the incredible world of Olivier Py, who delivers a great spectacle here. The story of the Faust myth revisited is embodied by young and very great voices to discover urgently (Golda Schultz and Ben Bliss).

The last events of the 2024-2025 season at the Palais Garnier are exceptional concerts. A concert of the Rolex Ambassadors brings together Sonya Yoncheva, Juan Diego Flórez, Bryn Terfel, Rolando Villazón, Yuja Wang, and the musicians of the Vienna Philharmonic, while the 150th anniversary of the Palais Garnier will be celebrated with a gala featuring Lisette Oropesa and Ludovic Tézier. One must rush to get available tickets as the event is significant!

Get your tickets now for the new 2024-2025 season at the Palais Garnier

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Built by Saint Louis in the thirteenth century, this elegant cistercian monastery located 30 kilometers north of Paris is an International Center for musical and dancing artists. Throughout the year, it hosts in its 53 rooms and 13 rehearsal rooms young dancers invited by its “Choreographic Creation” department, great performers and inventive composers invited by its “Musical Creation” department and singers selected by its “Voice and repertoire” department.

The “Voices and repertoire” department has just published its very attractive 2020 training program. Medieval music, melody and lied, choir conducting and opera will be taught during 14 residency sessions at the abbey, away from the world. The instructors are prestigious : the baritone Thomas Hampson will give a 3-day master class to 6 singers and 2 pianists in collaboration with the Médiathèque Musicale Mahler ; the Conductor of the Correspondances, Sébastien Daucé, will unveil the secrets of the 17th century polyphonic repertoire; the soprano Véronique Gens and the organist Louis-Noël Bestion de Camboulas will assist 6 singers and 6 instrumentalists to play the scores of Rameau.

The partners are up to the task too : Pro Quartet participates to a training about Saint-Saëns; the conservatories of Paris, Boulogne Billancourt, Rueil-Malmaison, Cergy-Pontoise and Aubervilliers-La Courneuve co-organize an introduction to the medieval vocal practice led by the baritone Marc Mauillon; other operations are also made with the Paris Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales or the Orsay Museum.

The Orsay-Royaumont Academy, which has been passing down the melody and lied art for over a year is a good example of how young singers can be accompanied to the stage.  The first eight laureates will publish a collective album recorded at the abbey and will give a concert on October 5th which will launch the departure of a tour with more than 20 dates, in Barcelona, ​​London, Oxford and Montreal.

Young singers, if you want to follow in their footsteps, you have until October 4 to register for the “Voix et répertoire” department trainings.

Learn more : https://www.royaumont.com/en/voices-and-stage-unit-program

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Another reprise and a marvelous one! Poulenc’s Carmelite Dialogues which delighted the public at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées is back on the program. The staging of Olivier Py is a masterpiece of intelligence and incredible drama and offers us an unforgettable moment at the theater. The first distribution is quite similar to the one, already perfect, of Paris (Patricia Petibon, Véronique Gens, Sophie Koch, Sandrine Piau, Stanislas de Barbeyrac). A second cast is equally thrilling with Anne-Catherine Gillet, Marie-Adeline Henry and Karine Deshayes and the sophisticated presence of the great conductor Alain Altinoglu. The new music director of the Belgian institution is also leading the other major event of the 2017-2018 season. You must quickly reserve your seats to attend the Lohengrin by Wagner. Postponed to this season, this production is also delivered by Olivier Py. The stage director who flies from success to success never leaves one indifferent. Two distributions are expected with Eric Cutler or Joseph Kaiser, Ingela Brimberg or Meagan Miller … Alain Altinoglu shares the poster with a beautiful artist he knows well. In one of her best roles, Nora Gubisch plays Judith of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle with the phenomenal Ante Jerkunica as Duke. Great artists are also on display at Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci such as Eva-Maria Westbroek, Alex Penda and Evelino Pidò.

Of course, we should also mention dance and the choreographers attached to the theater: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Sasha Waltz, Alain Platel … but also the many concerts such as the recital of Natalie Dessay and Philippe Cassard, those of Anna Bonitatibus, Pavol Breslik or Simon Keenlyside. Other events take place at the Palais des Beaux-Arts … the season is so rich and so prestigious that you should book your tickets at La Monnaie-De Munt without delay!

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