The Paris Opera Ballet on tour in Los Angeles

Invited by Maestro Gustavo Dudamel to participate in the 100th anniversary season of the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, the Paris Opera Ballet will perform for the first time in this mythical amphitheatre on two exceptional dates: July 20 and 21, 2022.

On the open-air stage and accompanied by the LA Phil under the baton of Maestro Gustavo Dudamel, musical director of the Paris Opera & Ballet, the Company will present an anthology of its repertoire in front of more than 17,000 spectators per evening.

For two nights this summer, Dudamel, who was appointed Music Director of Paris Opera in 2021 and is celebrating his fourteenth year as Music & Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, will unite two of the world’s leading arts institutions – the Los Angeles Philharmonic and the Paris Opera Ballet – for two spectacular evenings of dance, as could only be realized at the Hollywood Bowl.

With Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic setting the scene, 30 dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet, including the world-renowned “Étoiles” of the company, will make their Bowl debuts in an evening of highlights from extraordinary ballets from the core classical canon and of today. This type of program is rarely done, even in France, and this will be the Paris Opera Ballet’s first performance in Los Angeles in their 350-year history. World-renowned pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will be the guest pianist for the program.

Planned repertoire (subject to change) includes:

Grand Pas Classique

Choreography by Victor Gsovsky,
Music by Daniel Francois Auber

Trois Gnossiennes

Choreography by Hans van Manen
Music by Eric Satie – piano solo-

Pas de deux from Le Parc

Choreography by Angelin Preljocai
Music by Mozart (Adagio of concerto for piano n°23)

Pas de deux from the second Act of The Swan Lake

Choreography by Rudolf Noureev
Music by Piotr lliytch Tchaikovsky

La Mort du cygnet

Choreography by Mikhail Fokine
Music by Camille Saint Saëns for piano and cello
(extract of Carnaval des Animaux)

Clair de lune

Choreography by Alastair Marriott
Music by Claude Debussy for piano solo

The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude

Choreography by William Forsythe
Music by Franz Schubert (Finale of the Symphony n°9)

Faunes

Choreography by Sharon Eyal
Music by Claude Debussy (Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune)

More details here

Regina and Gregory Annenberg Weingarten, Major Donors, the GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation are supporting the Paris Opera Ballet’s upcoming tour to Los Angeles, alongside Chanel, principal sponsor of the Paris Opera Ballet.

The GRoW @ Annenberg Foundation is a faithful sponsor of the Paris Opera. It contributed to the recording of the Ring in 2020 and supports every year to “La Matinée Rêve d’Enfants”.