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OPERA >  2 > THÉÂTRE MUSICAL DE -CHÂTELET Les Parapluies de Cherbourg 3 > OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS 4 5 La Traviata 6 DANCE CONCERT > OPÉRA DE LYON > MARIINSKY THEATRE > MARIINSKY THEATRE 7 La Bayadère 26 International Piano Festival 40 > TEATRO VENISE Anna Karenine 27 > TCHAIKOVSKY HALL, Capuleti e Montecchi 8 > OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS Concert at the Tchaikovsky Hall, 9 Les Enfants de Scaramouche 28 Moscow 40 L’Africaine 10 Rain 29 > OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS > OPÉRA ROYAL DE WALLONIE Evening at Paris Opera 30 Cycle, The Tosca 11 Daphnis et Chloé 31 Nine Symphonies 41 WORK IN PROGRESS 12 Le Palais de Cristal 32 > GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION DANCE 13 Dances at a Gathering 32 GRAND AUDITORIUM, > The Sleeping Beauty 47 14 Psyché 33 St Matthew Passion 42 > Atvakhabar Rhapsodies 47 Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail 15 > , War 42 > Tatjana 47 Guillaume Tell 16 El Amor Brujo 34 > OPÉRA-COMIQUE, PARIS > Casse-Noisette Compagnie 47 L’Italiana in Algeri 17 > OPÉRA NATIONAL DE BORDEAUX Armenian Legends 43 > OPÉRA DE MONTE-CARLO Pneuma 35 OPERA 18 > CHÂTEAU DE VERSAILLES > The Queen of Spades 48 Il Mondo della Luna 19 The Orangery Nights 36 CIRCUS > Eugene Onegin 48 20 > TATAR STATE ACADEMIC OPERA - KAZAN > 36 th Tomorrow's Circus > Jalil 48 > TEATRO MAYOR – BOGOTA, COLOMBIA The Golden Horde 37 World Festival 44 > Bluebeard’s Castle / Orfeo Chaman 21 > 39 th Monte Carlo Circus Festival 45 La Voix humaine 49 > OPÉRA DE ROUEN HAUTE-NORMANDIE > La Damnation de 49 22 DOCUMENTARY > La Cenerentola 49 La Damnation de Faust 23 > Dmitri Shostakovich – MAGIC > OPÉRA NATIONAL DU RHIN A Man Of Many Faces 38 > Golden Mandrakes 2014 46 CONCERT Doctor Atomic 24 > Ma mère adorait la danse 38 > The Olympia does its Magic! 46 > Concert at Münchner > SPECIAL EVENT > A Rose for Antonio Soler 39 Philharmoniker 48 Le Concert de Paris 25 > Carnivals around the World 39 > Le Concert de Paris 2015 49

> Opera 2/3 MARIINSKY THEATRE / THÉÂTRE MUSICAL DE PARIS-CHÂTELET

War and Peace Telmondis 2014 Mariinsky Theatre

Opera in two acts by Sergei Starring Prokofiev. Libretto by Sergei Andrei Bondarenko: Prince Andrei Prokofiev and Mira Mendelssohn- Bolkonsky | Garifullina: Natasha Prokofieva after the novel of the Rostova | Yulia Matochkina: | same name by . New Larisa Diadkova: Maria Dmitrievna production directed by Graham Akhrosimova | Sergei Aleksashkin: Vick. Conducted by . Count Ilya Rostov | Yevgeny Akimov: | Maria Based on the 19th century novel Maksakova: Hélène Bezukhova | Ilya by Tolstoy, the opera of War and Selivanov: Anatol Kuragin | Edward Peace tells the story of young Tsanga: Dolokhov | Yekaterina Natasha who falls for dashing Sergeyeva: Princess Marya | Gennady widower Prince Andrei. But his Bezzubenkov: Field-Marshal Mikhail father disapproves of their proposed Kutuzov | Vasily Gerello: | union causing the match to be The Mariinsky Orchestra and Chorus | postponed. Meanwhile Natasha’s head is turned by the charming Production Anatole Kuragin who neglects to A coproduction by Telmondis, mention that he is already married. the Mariinsky Theatre, Mezzo This individual and personal story with the participation of is overtaken by political events Télévisions, M_MEDIA and as Napoleon’s army closes in on the support of the CNC | , making war inevitable. Directed by Don Kent | Produced by Antoine Perset, Stage Director: Graham Vick Denis Morlière | Musical Director and Conductor: Running time: 1x270’ | Valery Gergiev | Production Designer: Paul Brown | Lighting Designer: Giuseppe Di Iorio | Choreographer: Maxim Petrov | ©Photo: N. Razina Les Parapluies de Cherbourg Telmondis 2014 Théâtre musical de Paris-Châtelet

World Premiere – Symphonic Version Years later, the now conspicuously wealthy Golden Palm in Cannes in 1964, Les Geneviève, travelling with her daughter, Parapluies de Cherbourg is a new genre Guy's child, accidentally runs into Guy at his in the French film world: the musical. A service station. While the two have only a cinematographic revolution, carried by brief conversation about the state of their the timeless music of Michel Legrand. respective lives, the conversation is clearly fraught with unspoken fondness and regret. Geneviève lives with her widowed mother, who owns an umbrella shop in Cherbourg. Musical direction: Michel Legrand She and Guy, an auto mechanic, are secretly Book: Jacques Demy | in love and want to marry. Shortly after Music: Michel Legrand | this, Guy is drafted to serve the Algerian Stage director: Vincent Vittoz | War. Before leaving, Guy and Geneviève Set design: Vincent Vittoz and Jean-Jacques consummate their love for each other, Sempé | Costumes: Vanessa Seward | which results in her becoming pregnant. While Guy is away at war they drift apart. Starring Geneviève, strongly encouraged by her Geneviève: Marie Oppert | Guy: Vincent mother, accepts a marriage proposal from Niclo | Madame Emery: | Roland Cassard, a jewler, who has fallen Roland Cassard: Laurent Naouri | Madeleine: in love and has promised to bring up her Leterme | Aunt Elise: Jasmine Roy | child as his own. Guy is wounded and is M. Dubourg & Aubin: Franck Vincent | discharged before his two-year term is up, Orchestre National d'Île-de-France | but when he returns to Cherbourg Geneviève has already married and moved away. He Production struggles with depression and anger, but A coproduction by Telmondis, Théâtre Muscial eventually is healed by falling in love with de Paris-Châtelet with the partcipation and marrying Madeleine, a young woman of France Télévisions and the support of who had been caring for his dying aunt. Using the CNC | Directed by Denis Caïozzi | an inheritance from his aunt, Guy fulfills Produced by Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière | his ambition of opening a service station. Running time: 1x90’ | ©Photo: Marie-Noëlle Robert > Opera 4/5 OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS

The Barber of Seville A Prime Group 2014 Opéra national de Paris

Opera-Buffa in two acts by Gioacchino Musical direction: Carlo Montanaro Rossini | Libretto by Cesare Sterbini Stage direction: Damiano Michieletto | Sets: from the play of Pierre-Augustin Paolo Fantin | Costumes: Silvia Aymonino | Caron de Beaumarchais. Lighting: Fabio Barettin | Choruses master: José Luis Basso | Undoubtedly the most famous opera buffa in the history of music and an eternal source Starring of delight. Rossini composed it in just a few René Barbera: Il Conte d’Almaviva | Carlo weeks, borrowing the overture and certain Lepore: Bartolo | Karine Deshayes: Rosina | airs from his own serious and comic works. Dalibor Jenis: Figaro | Orlin Anastassov: All of the remarkable ensembles, however, Basilio | Tiago Matos: Fiorello | Cornelia are original. Il barbiere di Siviglia was also Oncioiu: Berta | Lucio Prete: Un Ufficiale | one of the first operatic triumphs in Europe. Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus | The premiere, performed on 20 February 1816 in , was a resounding flop, attended Production by all of Rossini’s enemies. But the opera A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, A was quickly revived on 22 February when Prime Group, with the participation of France The Barber received rapturous applause. Télévisions and the support of the CNC and And indeed, how could Rossini not have of La Fondation Orange | Directed by François encountered this initial resistance? He Goetghebeur | Produced by Charlotte Guénin, pitted the old world (through Bartolo and Laurent Métivier | Running time: 1x155’ | his authoritarianism) against the new world; old opera against modern opera. With its incredible verve and youthful cheer, this was the work that built Rossini’s brilliant international reputation. With this new production of the ever-popular masterpiece, Italian stage director Damiano Michieletto makes his Paris Opera debut. ©Photo: Bernard Coutanty - ONP©Photo: Bernard Tosca Act4 Productions 2014 Opéra national de Paris

Melodramma in three acts by Musical direction: | Libretto by Stage direction: Pierre Audi | Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica Sets: Christof Hetzer | from the play of Victorien Sardou. Costumes: Robby Duiveman | A singer in love, passionate, jealous Lighting: Jean Kalman | and impulsive; a romantic painter, Dramaturgy: Klaus Bertisch | an idealist and a defender of liberty; Choruses master: José Luis Basso | a police chief with a lust for flesh, power and blood, ready to do Starring anything to achieve his ends. Puccini Martina Serafin: Floria Tosca | artfully combines the ingredients of a Marcelo Alvarez: Mario Cavaradossi | melodrama written for Sarah Bernhardt Ludovic Tézier: Scarpia | and comes up with what might be Wojtek Smilek: Cesare Angelotti | called the opera of , a spectacle Carlo Bosi: Spoletta | at once primitive and decadent. In André Heyboer: Sciarrone | a mythical yet real Rome, from the Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus shadows of the church of Sant’ Andrea Maîtrise des Hauts-De-Seine / della Valle to the terrace of Castello Paris Opera children's Chorus | Sant’ Angelo, passions collide and tear all apart, mingling the erotic with the Production sacred, love with possession, theatre A coproduction by Opéra national with life. Nothing is what it seems in de Paris, Act4 Productions, with the Tosca: beautiful women who come participation of France Télévisions to pray are conspirators, defeats and the support of the CNC and are victories and mock executions of La Fondation Orange | are real. A spectacular work which Directed by Denis Caïozzi | captures the essence of opera as Produced by Jacques Clément, few others do. Pierre Audi signs a Alexandra Clément, Laurent Métivier | new production of this violent and Running time: 1x128’ | passionate work for the Paris Opera. ©Photo: Charles Duprat - OnP ©Photo: Charles Duprat > Opera 6/7 OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS / OPÉRA DE LYON

La Traviata Idéale Audience 2014 Opéra national de Paris

Opera in three acts by . Musical direction: Francesco Ivan Ciampa Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Stage direction: Benoît Jacquot | based on the novel “La Dame aux Sets: Sylvain Chauvelot | Camélias” by fils. Costumes: Christian Gasc | Lighting: André Diot | Poor Mariette Duplessis is dead... the Chorus master: Alessandro di Stefano | first woman I ever loved, and now she’s in goodness knows which cemetery, abandoned Starring to the maggots of the sepulchre! It’s as she : Violetta Valéry | said to me fifteen months ago: “I won’t live: Anna Pennisi: Flora Bervoix | I’m a strange girl and I won’t be able to keep Cornelia Oncioiu: Annina | living a life I don’t know how to lead and that Francesco Demuro: Alfredo Germont | I don’t know how to bear either. Take me, lead Ludovic Tézier: Giorgio Germont | me wherever you want; I won’t bother you, Gabriele Mangione: Gastone | I sleep all day. In the evening, you’ll let me Fabio Previati: Il Barone Douphol | go to the theatre and at night you’ll do with Igor Gnidii: Il Marchese d’Obigny | me as you wish!” I’ve never told you of the Nicolas Testé: Dottore Grenvil | singular attachment I felt for that charming Paris Opera Orchestra and Chorus | creature. And now she’s dead... And I don’t know what strange old elegy echoes in my Production heart at her memory.” Thus spoke Franz Liszt A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, of Marie d’Agoult, the unforgettable ghost of Idéale Audience, with the participation the woman who would become the Dame aux of France Télévisions, the support of La Camélias. After Dumas fils, it was Verdi who Fondation Orange and the CNC | Directed by would give her immortality in his remarkable Benoît Jacquot, Louise Narboni | Produced masterpiece, one of the repertoire’s most by Françoise Gazio, Laurent Métivier | striking portraits of a woman, at once cruel Running time: 1x146’ | and sublime. Following on from , Benoît Jacquot directs Diana Damrau in this other opera about love and sacrifice. ©Photo: Elisa Haberer - Onp ©Photo: Elisa Haberer Le Comte Ory Telmondis 2014 Opéra de Lyon

Opera-comique in two acts by Gioacchino Rossini. Libretto by Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre- Poirson. In coproduction with theTeatro alla Scala, .

Rossini’s penultimate opera is based on a medieval ballad about randy knights set loose in a convent. This version of the story is a bit more polite, with the nuns turned into a castle full of faithful wives, chastely awaiting the return of their husbands.

Musical Direction: Stefano Montanari Staging, sets and costumes: Laurent Pelly | Lighting: Joël Adam | Chorus Master: Alan Woodbridge |

Starring Dmitry Korchak: Count Ory | Désirée Rancatore: Countess Adèle | Antoinette Dennefeld: Isolier | Doris Lamprecht: Ragonde | Philippe Sly: Raimbaud | Patrick Bolleire: Governor | Vanessa Le Charlès: Alice | Orchestra and Chorus of the Opéra de Lyon |

Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Opéra de Lyon, with the participation of France Télévisions and the support of the CNC | Directed by Vincent Massip | Produced by Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière | Running time: 1x143’ | ©Photo: Bertrand Stofleth > Opera 8/9 TEATRO LA FENICE VENISE

Capuleti e Montecchi Oxymore 2015 Teatro La Fenice Venise

Opera in two acts by by Luigi Scevola. As in the earlier Libretto by Felice Romani , once again the protagonists’ Vincenzo Bellini wrote two tragic voices are female and Romeo is operas for Teatro La Fenice: I Capuleti a mezzo soprano en travesti. e i Montecchi and Beatrice di Tenda. The first, composed in 1830 and to Conductor: Omer Meir Wellber the story of Romeo and Juliet but not Stage director: Arnaud Bernard | based on Shakespeare but rather Sets: Alessandro Camera | on an early nineteenth-century Costumes: Maria Carla Ricotti | tragedy by Luigi Scevola in a new Light designer: Fabio Barettin | production by Arnaud Bernard. Chorus Master: Claudio Marino Moretti | The most famous and ill-starred love story of all times, and made Starring immortal by Shakespeare’s play Rubén Amoretti: Capellio | of the same name, Romeo and Jessica Pratt: Giulietta | Juliet has often been put to music. Sonia Ganassi: Romeo | One of the most popular versions Shalva Mukeria: Tebaldo | is the two-act opera I Capuleti e i Luca Dall’Amico: Lorenzo | Montecchi, which Teatro La Fenice La Fenice commissioned Vincenzo Bellini with Orchestra and Chorus | for the 1830 Carnival, and it debuted on 11 March. Felice Romani was the Production author of the libretto, as well as of A coproduction by Oxymore, the later Sonnambula and , Fondazione La Fenice, with and he based the subject on Italian the participation of France literary tradition, and in particular Televisions and RTBF | on a novella by the Renaissance Directed by Stéphane Vérité | author Matteo Bandello and an Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | early nineteenth-century tragedy Running time: 1x130’ | ©Photo: Foto Ennevi ©Photo: Foto Alceste Oxymore 2015 Teatro La Fenice Venise

Opera in three acts by Christoph There are two versions of this Willibald Gluck | Libretto by Ranieri opera, one with an Italian libretto Simone Francesco Maria de' by Ranieri de’ Calzabigi, which Calzabigi, from Alceste by Euripide. debuted at the in 1767, and one in French, which ’s new prestigious was performed in Paris in 1776. production of Alceste by Christoph Willibald Gluck to mark the three Conductor: Guillaume Tourniaire hundredth anniversary of the Stage direction, sets & costumes: composer’s birth (Erasbach, Pier Luigi Pizzi | Lighting: Baveria 1714 – 1787). Vincenzo Raponi | Chorus master: Claudio Marino Moretti An exponent of early Viennese classicism, Christoph Willibald Gluck Starring played a decisive role in the reform : Alceste | Stanislav and simplification of opera seria, de Barbeyrac: Admeto | Giorgio which was suffering a period of Misseri: Evandro | Zuzana Markova: decline in the eighteenth century. Ismene | Vincenzo Nizzardo: Apollo, Il gran sacerdote di Apollo | A key piece in this reform, together Armando Gabba: Un banditore, La with the more famous Orfeo ed voce dell’Oracolo | La Fenice Opera Euridice is Alceste, which portrays House Chorus and Orchestra the heartbreaking story narrated by : King Admetus is Production dying and his wife, Alceste offers A coproduction by Oxymore, Mezzo, ©Photo: Michele Crosera Apollo her own life in exchange Fondazione La Fenice, with the for that of her beloved. The god participation of France Televisions | is moved by this act of extreme Directed by Stéphane Vérité | devotion and allows the woman Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | to return from the underworld. Running time: 1x140’ | > Opera 10/11 TEATRO LA FENICE VENISE / OPÉRA ROYAL DE WALLONIE

L’Africaine Oxymore 2013 Tosca Oxymore 2014 Teatro La Fenice Venise Opéra Royal de Wallonie

Opera in three acts by Giacomo Conductor: Meyerbeer. Libretto by Eugène Scribe. Stage director: Leo Muscato | Sets: Massimo Checchetto | The opera is set in Lisbon and on an island Costumes: Carlos Tieppo | in the Indian Ocean during the 16th century. Vasco da Gama has been away from Starring his fiancé Inès for two years. Assuming Jessica Pratt: Inès | Da Gama is dead, Inès’ father insists Veronica Simeoni: Sélika | that she marry Don Pédro. Surprisingly, Gregory Kunde: Vasco de Gama | Da Gama returns and brings with him two Emanuele Giannino: Don Alvar | slaves Sélika and Nélusko. When the Grand Angelo Veccia: Nélusko | Inquisitor refuses Da Gama’s request for Luca dall’Amico: Don Pédro | more exploration funds, Da Gama attacks Davide Ruberti: Don Diego | the Grand Inquisitor and is sent to prison. Mattia Denti: Grand Inquisitor of Lisbon | Luckily, Inès purchases Da Gama’s freedom Ruben Amoretti: High Priest of Brahma | by marrying Don Pédro. Inès and Don Pédro Anna Bordignon: Anna | now set sail, piloted by the treacherous Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice | Nélusko. Da Gama has followed Don Pédro in another ship, and begs him to return to Production Lisbon. Don Pédro refuses, and a storm A coproduction by Oxymore, breaks out. The local people kill all males Fondazione Teatro La Fenice, with on the ships except Da Gama. Sélika is now the participation of Medici TV and queen once again and claims Da Gama as RAI and the support of the CNC | her husband. However, when Sélika sees Directed by Stéphane Vérité | Da Gama secretly with Inès (who survived), Produced by Jean-Romain Sales |

she commits suicide followed by Nélusko. Running time: 1x150’ | Croisier ©Photo: ORW-Jacques

Opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini Musical Direction: Paolo Arrivabeni Libretto by Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Staging: Claire Servais | Giacosa (according to Victorien Sardou) Sets: Carlo Centolavigna | Lighting: Olivier Wéry | Tosca is the fifth Puccini’s opera and it Costumes: Michel Fresnay | marks a stylistic turning point. Bohemia, Choirmaster: Marcel Seminara | his previous opera, can be considered as the first of his masterpieces: it’s also the Starring last one with a "verismo" theme, in other Barbara Haveman: Floria Tosca | words based on people’s daily reality. Marc Laho: Mario Cavaradossi | Ruggero Raimondi: Il Barone Scarpia | Tosca returns to the pure tragedy, with Roger Joakim: Cesare Angelotti | historical figures (great names of history). Laurent Kubla: Il Sagrestano | It doesn’t mean a step backwards, because Giovanni Iovino: Spoletta | the theatrical and musical treatment Marc Tissons: Sciarrone | differs from Verdi’s way of composing. It’s Pierre Gathier: Un carciere | a dense work, focused on a few characters Orchestra and chorus from Opéra with very detailed psychology. There is Royal de Wallonie, Liège | little room for genre scenes or crowd. Production Puccini was very strongly influenced by A coproduction by Oxymore, Opéra Royal de actress Sarah Bernhardt’s interpretation Wallonie, Jim & Jules, with the participation in the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou. of France Televisions and RTBF stages sector | The actress haunts the composition and Directed by Arnaud Lalanne | creates her Floria Tosca’s melodic tones. Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | Running time: 1x125’ | ©Photo: Michele Croser OPÉRAROYAL > Opera Opéra RoyalOpéra de Wallonie Luisa Miller RoyalOpéra de Wallonie La Cenerentola DE WALLONIE

©Photo: ORW-Jacques Croisier ©Photo: ORW-Jacques Croisier of intimacy, where characters’ individualized anddeepened.Itisatragedy representative: thepassions are thereby more Each character isnothingmore thanhisown Luisa Millerhas more thanonecommonpoint. emerging, especiallyLa Traviata with which masterpieces of theyears 1851-1853are is more subtlethanbefore. Obviously, great events, butasimple ofgreat historical action isnolongerpart youth operas. Asaconsequence,the heroism, atypicalcharacteristic ofhis Verdi distancedhimselffrom patriotic For thefirsttime, on hispartitions. and emotionallywithapositive impact village. Itstabilizes has moved backtoBusseto,hisnative Giuseppina Strepponi, thecomposer Together withhisfuture secondwife, turning pointin for the und Liebe. written by Friedrich SchillerentitledKabale Cammarano, Luisa Millerisbasedonaplay Verdi andtheNeapolitanlibrettist Salvatore As theresult ofthecollaboration between on Schiller’s playKabale undLiebe) Libretto bySalvatore Cammarano (based Opera inthree actsbyGiuseppe Verdi | In Libretto byJacopoFerretti Opera intwoactsbyGioachinoRossini | ofawholeschoolsinging. to therebirth doesn’t spare anyrole, appealingby theway ispresent inallhisworkand This virtuosity of styleandunbridledfunnyside. of theplot,withRossini’s virtuosity tenderness andthesentimentalism violent contrast produced by theheroin’s The workisalsoinnovative asitincludesa model oflightness,freshness andspirit. the mostfamousRossini’s onesandisa The openingofLaCenerentola isoneof Antonio romantic songinthecast(Luigi Lablache, the presence ofthegreatest gloriesof and quicklyconquerstheworldwith great acclaiminmostItaliantheaters the workisgainingpopularity, receives audience’s verdict atthefirstperformance, looks likeBarbiere’s: afterarather hostile Curiously, thecareer ofLaCenerentola new order from the of IlBarbiere diSiviglia,Rossini received a February Teatro SanCarloinNaples.Itmarksa Tamburini, Malibran, The workwascomposedin1849 1816, Verdi’s production andlife. a few Verdi, geographically Teatro Tyrolean village. days Valle inRome. after psychology Viardot, ...). the creation Running time:1x151’ Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | Directed by Stéphane Medici.tv andRTBF stages sector | ofFrancethe participation Royal de A coproduction by Oxymore, Opéra Production Royal de Orchestra andchorusfrom Opéra Stefano DeRosa: Uncontandino | Cristina Melis:Federica | Alexise Luciano Montanaro: IlConteDi Walter | Bálint Szabó:Wurm | Nicola Alaimo:Miller | Gregory Kunde: Rodolfo | :Luisa | Starring Choirmaster: Marcel Seminara | Costumes: AgostinoCavalca | André | Lighting: Martine Sets: Gérard Didier | Staging: Jean-Claude Fall | ZanettiMusical Direction: Massimo Running time:1x160’ Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | Directed by DavidMathy | Medici.tv andRTBF stagessector | ofFrancethe participation Royal de A coproduction by Oxymore, Opéra Production Royal de Orchestra andchorusfrom Opéra Julie Bailly:Tisbe | Sarah Defrise:Clorinda | Laurent Kubla: Alidoro | Enrico Marabelli: Dandini | Dmitry Korchak: DonRamiro | Bruno DeSimone:DonMagnifico | said Cenerentola | Marianna Pizzolato Angelina, Starring Choirmaster: Marcel Seminara | Roussat andJulienLubek | and choreography: Cécile Staging, sets,lighting,costumes Musical Direction: Paolo Arrivabeni Yerna: Laura | Wallonie, Jim&Jules,with Wallonie, Liège | Wallonie, Jim&Jules,with Wallonie, Liège | | | Vérité | Oxymore 2014 Oxymore 2014 Televisions, Televisions, 12/13 > Opera 14/15 OPÉRA ROYAL DE WALLONIE

Attila Oxymore 2013 Opéra royal de Wallonie

Opera in three acts by Guiseppe Starring Verdi. Libretto by Temistocle Solera. Michele Pertusi: Attila | Makvala Aspanidze: Odabella | In the 5th century, the Huns have : Ezio | just sacked the town of Aquileia. Giuseppe Gipali: Foresto | Attila, nicknamed “the scourge Papuna Tchuradze: Uldino | of God”, celebrates his victory Pierre Gathier: Leone | against Odabella, the daughter of Orchestra and chorus of the the local overlord who has seen Opéra Royal de Wallonie | her entire family wiped out. Impressed by the courage of the Production young female warrior, Attila gives her A coproduction by Oxymore, a sword. Odabella goes on to make of Wallonia, use of it to avenge her loved ones. Jim & Jules, Koko arrose la Close to a lagoon, a boat arrives culture, with the participation carrying the survivors of Aquileia, of France Télévisions and RTBF, among them Foresto who laments and the support of the CNC | the fate of his dear Odabella. He Directed by David Mathy | then suggests that he and his Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | companions build a new city: . Running time: 1x117’ |

Conductor: Renato Palumbo Director: Ruggero Raimondi | Set designs: Daniel Bianco | Costume designs: Laura Lo Surdo | Lighting designs: Albert Faura | Chorus master: Marcel Seminara | ©Photo: Jacques Croisier Die Entführung aus dem Serail Oxymore 2013 Opéra royal de Wallonie

Opera in three acts by Wolfgang Conductor: Amadeus Mozart. Libretto Director: Alfredo Arias | by Stephanie Gottlieb. Set designs: Roberto Platé | Costume designs: Adeline André | Konstanze (the fiancée of Belmonte, a Lighting designs: Jacques Spanish noble), Blondchen (her maid) Rouveyrollis | and Pedrillo (Belmonte's valet and Chorus master: Marcel Seminara | Blondchen's fiancé) are kidnapped by pirates and sold as slaves to the Starring pasha Bassa Selim. The latter keeps Maria Grazia Schiavo: Konstanze | the beautiful Konstanze for himself, Wesley Rogers: Belmonte | and while Pedrillo serves him as a Franz Hawlata: Osmin | gardener, he gives Blondchen to Elizabeth Bailey: Blondchen | Osmin, the guardian of his seraglio. Jeff Martin: Pedrillo | Markus Merz: Bassa Selim | In the meantime, Belmonte has Orchestra and chorus of the found out where his friends are and Opéra Royal de Wallonie | appears at the palace of Bassa Selim. However, Osmin distrusts this Production stranger and chases him away. A coproduction by Oxymore, Belmonte returns later and Royal Opera House of Wallonia, finds Pedrillo who, to get him Jim & Jules, with the participation into the palace, passes him of France Télévisions and RTBF, off as a young architect… and the support of the CNC | Directed by Alfredo Arias | Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | Running time: 1x135’ | ©Photo: Jacques Croisier > Opera 16/17 OPÉRA ROYAL DE WALLONIE

Guillaume Tell Oxymore 2013 Opéra royal de Wallonie

Opera in three acts by André Ernest Modeste Grétry. Libretto by Jean-Michel Sedaine after Antoine-Marie Lemierre.

Must one salute a hat at the top of a mast, even it it's an order given by the local lord? Guillaume Tell refuses to do so and he is sentenced to fire an arrow into an apple placed on the head of his own son. But Tell has a secret weapon: he slips a second arrow into his quiver. For whom was it intended?

Musical direction: Stage direction: Stefano Mazzonis di Pralafera | Set: Jean-Guy Lecat | Costumes: Fernand Ruiz | Lighting: Franco Marri | Chorus master: Marcel Seminara |

Starring Marc Laho: Guillaume Tell | Anne-Catherine Gillet: Madame Tell | Lionel Lhote: Gessler | Liesbeth Devos: Marie | Patrick Delcour: Melktal senior | Stefan Cifolelli: Melktal junior | Roger Joakim: the Traveller | Orchestra and chorus of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie |

Production A coproduction by Oxymore, Royal Opera House of Wallonia, GEIE, Jim & Jules, Web Style Productions, with the participation of RTBF, and the support of the CNC | Directed by Frédéric Caillierez | Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | Running time: 1x88’ | ©Photo: Jacques Croisier L’Italiana in Algeri Oxymore 2013 Opéra royal de Wallonie

Opera in two acts by . Libretto by Angelo Anelli.

Mustafa, the Bey of Alger, is bored with his wife Elvira. He would really like to meet one of those Italian girls who break the hearts of their suitors. Isabella, the fiancée of Lindoro who is imprisoned in Mustafa's harem, is roaming the seas in search of him. After being captured, will she eventually find Lindoro again and reconcile Mustafa and Elvira?

Musical direction: Stage direction: Emilio Sagi | Set: Enrique Bordolini | Costumes: Renata Schussheim | Lighting: Eduardo Bravo | Chorus master: Marcel Seminara |

Starring Enkelejda Shkosa: Isabella | Carlo Lepore: Mustafà | Daniele Zanfardino: Lindoro | Mario Cassi: Taddeo | Liesbeth Devos: Elvira | Julie Bailly: Zulma | Laurent Kubla: Haly | Orchestra and chorus of the Opéra Royal de Wallonie |

Production A coproduction by Oxymore, Royal Opera House of Wallonia, Arte GEIE, Jim & Jules, Web Style Productions, with the participation of RTBF, and the support of the CNC | Directed by Frédéric Caillierez | Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | Running time: 1x123’ | ©Photo: Jacques Croisier > Opera 18/19 OPÉRA DE MONTE-CARLO

Don Giovanni Wahoo Production 2015 Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Opera in two acts Musical Direction: Paolo Arrivabeni by | Staging: Jean-Louis Grinda | Libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte | Sets and costumes: Rudy Sabounghi | Lighting: Laurent Castaingt | Underlying his audacity and unrelenting Choirmaster: Stefano Visconti | passion for women, it is God and society that Don Giovanni rails Starring against and defies.This is the cause Erwin Schrott: Don Giovanni | of his downfall and swift punishment. Giacomo Prestia: Il Commendatore | Mozart’s opera – a drama giocoso Patrizia Ciofi: Donna Anna | or joyous drama – expresses all : Don Ottavio | this with unrepressed power. Sonya Yoncheva: Donna Elvira | Lorenzo da Ponte's brilliant libretto is an Adrian Sampetrean: Leporello | adaptation of the play by Tirso de Molina, Fernando Javier Radó: Masetto | which also inspired Molière's Don Juan. Loriana Castellano: Zerlina | However, it is Mozart’s music, starting Chorus of the Monte-Carlo Opera with the overture, that gives the work Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra | its metaphysical dimension, making the work much more than a simple story. Production Don Giovanni is the quintessential A coproduction Wahoo Production, Opéra example of Mozart's genius, where de Monte-Carlo, with the participation the best and worst of human nature of France Televisions and Medici.tv | are on display, where the tragic and Directed by Stéphan Aubé | the grotesque, the sublime and the Produced by Odile Carlotti | ridiculous are combined in the pursuit Running time: 1x180’ | of the most spiritual and earthly desires. All of this comes together in the most beautiful music ever written, to the point that Richard Wagner would claim Don Giovanni is "the opera of all operas". ©Photo: Alain Hanel-OMC Il Mondo della Luna Oxymore 2014 Opéra de Monte-Carlo

Opera in three acts by Franz . Libretto by Polisseno Fegejo Pastor after Carlo Goldoni.

The bogus astrologer, Ecclitico, wants to trick the protective Buonafede into allowing his daughters Clarice and Flaminia, and their maid Lisetta, to marry the husbands they choose, Ecclitico, the cavalier Ernesto and his servant Cecco respectively. Buonafede is drugged and taken into Ecclitico’s garden. In his drugged state, Buonafede thinks the garden is the moon. Cecco, Ernesto and the girls also come to the garden. Buonafede sees Cecco as Emperor and Ernesto as Hesperus. The girls are duly betrothed to the appropriate partners, before Buonafede realizes he has been duped.

Musical Direction: Jérémie Rhorer Staging: Emilio Sagi | Sets: Daniel Bianco | Costumes: Pepa Ojanguren | Lighting: Albert Faura |

Starring Philippe Do: Ecclitico | Giuseppina Bridelli: Ernesto | Roberto De Candia: Buonafede | Hélène Le Corre: Clarice | Alessandra Marianelli: Flaminia | Annalisa Stroppa: Lisetta | Mathias Vidal: Cecco | Chorus of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo Orchestra Le Cercle de l'Harmonie |

Production A coproduction by Oxymore, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Cercle de l’Harmonie, Mezzo, France Télévisions, with the support of the CNC | Directed by David Mathy | Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | Running time: 1x142’ | ©Photo: Opéra de Monte Carlo ©Photo: Opéra > Opera 20/21 OPÉRA DE MONTE-CARLO / TEATRO MAYOR

Ernani Wahoo Production 2014 Orfeo Chaman Les Films Figures Libres 2014 Opéra de Monte-Carlo Teatro Mayor – Bogota, Colombia

Opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi | Starring Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Ramon Vargas: Ernani, the bandit | Ludovic after “Hernani” by Victor Hugo. Tézier: Don Carlo, King of Spain | Alexander Vinogradov: Don Ruy Gomez de Silva | Svetla Three men vie for the hand of the beautiful, Vassileva: Elvira, his niece and fiancée | young Elvira: Ernani, the outlawed nobleman Karine Ohanyan: Giovanna, her nurse | reduced to banditry; Don Ruy Gomez de Maurizio Pace: Don Riccardo, Don Silva, Elvira's guardian and unwelcome Carlo's equerry | Gabriele Ribis: Jago, prospective husband, and Don Carlo, the King Don Ruy's equerry | Philharmonic of Spain and future Holy Roman Emperor. Orchestra of Monte-Carlo and Chorus of the Opéra de Monte-Carlo | Musical Direction: Daniele Callegari Staging: Jean-Louis Grinda | Production Sets: Isabelle Partiot-Pieri | A coproduction by Wahoo production, Opéra Costumes: Teresa Acone | de Monte-Carlo, with the support of the CNC Lighting: Laurent Castaingt | Directed by Stéphan Aubé | Produced by Chorus Master: Stefano Visconti | Odile Carlotti | Running time: 1x120' | ©Photo: Les Films Figures Libres Films Figures ©Photo: Les

Through this opera in five scenic aspect is not outdone, since a set of acts, Christina Pluhar, art director acrobats and dancers, integral part of the of the Arpeggiata Ensemble, Rolf show, gives to the opera a great scale. and Heidi Abderhalden from the A whirl of artists from multiples MapaTeatro, recreate the myth of horizons, who meet for an extraordinary Orpheus and endow it a surprising show. Impossible not to succumb! dimension, unique and truly original. Musical direction: Cristina Pluhar By confronting Mediterranean and Staging: Heidi and Rolf Abderhalden, Amerindian mythologies, they reveal the Mapa Teatro - Colombia | Costumes: mystic and symbolic part of this harrowing Elizabeth Abderhalden | Lighting: Jef drama, in a journey during which Orpheus Dubois | Scenography: Pierre Magnin | learns the animal language, speaks to the spirit guards about the plants Starring and perform magic with his music. Orpheus: Nahuel Pennisi, singer | At once initiatory travel and spiritual Luciana Mancini, singer | quest, the spectators will rediscover the Bernadette Mazucato, mezzo-soprano | timeless story of an impossible love, Hana Blazicova, soprano | underlined by a direction and a musical Joao Fernandez, | work both original and sublime. Vincente Caperruto, alto | Arpeggiata Ensemble | Interpreted for the occasion by artists from all over the world stemming from Production varied universes, this opera gathers on A coproduction by Les Films Figures Libres, stage singers and musicians used to the L’Arpeggiata, Mapa Teatro, Teatro Mayor, baroque repertoire and the opera, whereas with the participation of France Televisions | the traditional musical sphere is well Directed by Sonia Paramo | represented too. Besides the music, the Running time: 1x130’ | ©Photo: Opéra de Monte Carlo ©Photo: Opéra > Opera 22/23 OPÉRA DE ROUEN HAUTE-NORMANDIE

Dido and Aeneas Oxymore 2014 Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

Opera in three acts by Henry Musical Direction: Vincent Dumestre Purcell | Libretto by Nahum Tate. Staging, choreography, sets, costumes: Cecile Roussat, Queen Dido's lady-in-waiting Belinda Julien Lubek | attempts to cheer up the lovelorn queen: surely the Trojan hero Aeneas Starring returns her love. Dido admits her Vivica Genaux: Dido | infatuation, and Aeneas enters to Henk Neven: Aeneas | renew his love-suit. Belinda and the Ana Quintans: Belinda | chorus encourage Dido's acquiescence Marc Mauillon: Sorceress, Sailor | and predict a happy outcome. At their Tatyana Ilyin: First Witch | cave, however, witches plot Dido Caroline Meng: Second Witch | and Carthage's downfall. Their spirit, Lucile Richardot: Spirit | dressed as Mercury, will impress upon Jenny Daviet: Second Woman | Aeneas the need for him to leave Orchestra of the Poeme Harmonique | immediately and complete his destiny Chorus Accentus | Opera de to found Rome as the new Troy. During Rouen Haute-Normandie | a hunt, a storm sends Dido and the courtiers back to the city, but Aeneas Production is held back by Merurcy and submits A coproduction by Oxymore, Opéra to his commands. The following day, de Rouen Haute-Normandie, Aeneas's sailors prepare to leave port. Mezzo, Alpha Productions, France The witches are thrilled, but Dido Télévisions, Poeme Harmonique, distraught and angry. Even Aeneas's with the support of the CNC | offer to disobey the gods and stay Directed by Stéphane Vérité | does not move her: she rejects him. Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | He leaves, and before taking her life Running time: 1x80’ | she asks Belinda to remember her, but not her fate. The chorus calls on cupids to scatter roses on her tomb. ©Photo: Jean Pouget La Damnation de Faust Oxymore 2014 Opéra de Rouen Haute-Normandie

Opera in four acts by Hector Musical Direction: Nicolas Krüger Berlioz. Libretto by Staging: Frédéric Roels, and Almire Gandonnière. assisted by Gilles Rico | Sets: Bruno de Lavenère | Conventional and moderate he was Costumes: Lionel Lesire | not, in life as in art, and so it is with Lighting: Laurent Castaingt | Hector Berlioz' musical rendition Choreography: José Besprosvany | of the Faust myth, which explodes Chorus master: Christophe all conventions and genres. Berlioz Grapperon | initially called his Damnation of Faust an “opera concertante”, Starring then a “dramatised legend”. Erik Fenton: Faust | Ultimately, the work is one thing Sir Willard White: Méphistophélès | above all else – a grand spectacle Marie Gautrot: Marguerite | incorporating all conceivable Alain Herriau: Brander | forms. Here we are presented Orchestra of the Opéra de Rouen with a score made up of opera, Haute-Normandie | Chorus oratorio and symphonic elements, Accentus | Opera de Rouen lieder, dances, marches, drinking Haute-Normandie | Ballet of the songs, large-scale chorus pieces, Opéra-Théâtre de Limoges | a fugue parody and a quodlibet of superimposed troopers' songs. Production Musically speaking, a composition A coproduction by Oxymore, Opéra from the mid 19th century could de Rouen Haute-Normandie, with the hardly be more heterogeneous. participation of France Télévisions, and the support of the CNC | Directed by Stéphane Vérité | Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | Running time: 1x130’ | ©Photo: Oxymore > Opera > Opera 24/25 SPECIAL EVENT

Doctor Atomic Oxymore 2014 Le Concert de Paris Electron Libre prod. 2014 Opéra national du Rhin , Paris

Conducted by maestro , Musical direction: Daniele Gatti this show has been filmed on Bastille Chorus masters: Morgan Jourdain, Day (July 14th) at the Eiffel Tower Matthias Brauer | in front of 600.000 spectators. Starring It brings together 220 classical musicians Natalie Dessay, soprano | , and some of the world’s greatest soloists soprano | Olga Peretyatko, soprano | including Natalie Dessay, Anna Netrebko, Elina Garanča, mezzo soprano | Piotr Olga Peretyatko, Elina Garanča, Piotr Beczala, Beczala, | Lawrence Brownlee, tenor | Lawrence Brownlee and Laurent Naouri. Laurent Naouri, barytone | Maîtrise de Radio France | Chorus of Radio France | On the occasion of the centenary of the Orchestre National de France | First World War, the musical programme evokes themes such as War and Peace Production and pieces by well known composers A coproduction by Electron Libre such as Berlioz or Tchaikovsky, as well Productions, in association with Radio as works from the great opera repertoire France, Lagardère Entertainment, France from Verdi to Gounod, or Donizetti. Télévisions, with the support of the CNC | Directed by François Goetghebeur | Produced by Yannis Chebbi, Michaël Kazan | Running time: 1x90’ | ©Photo: A Kaiser French creation – New production of the first essay. And his assistant Opera in two acts by John Adams. Bainbridge to answer him: “from now Libretto by Peter Sellars. on, we are all sons of a bitch”.

Doctor Atomic arose from a series of orders of the Opera of San Francisco on the theme Musical direction: Patrick Davin of Faust in a country as the United States. Staging: Lucinda Childs | John Adam and his librettist Peter Sellars Sets and costumes: Bruno de Lavenère | then had the idea to connect Faust with Lighting: David Debrinay | the Project Manhattan (the elaboration of Video: Etienne Guiol | the atom bomb). Its inventor, the physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, makes the world Starring fall over in the era of nuclear power. A man Dietrich Henschel: J. Robert Oppenheimer | who puts in danger the whole humanity, Robert Bork: Edward Teller | embodied by the concerns of his wife, Kitty. Marlin Miller: Robert Wilson | Attached to the reality, several of the Anna Grevelius: Kitty Oppenheimer | present texts in the opera were adapted by Jovita Vaskeviciute: Pasqualita | documents declassified by the government Peter Sidhom: General Leslie Groves | of the United States. They resume Brian Bannatyne-Scott: Jack Hubbard | the dialogues between the scientists, John Graham-Hall: Captain James Nolan | the officials and the military staff. Production Lucinda Childs signs an un-spectacular A coproduction by Oxymore, Opéra national approach to staging, close to the cinema, du Rhin, with the participation of France for this countdown in the form of thriller. Télévisions and Medici TV, and the support “... Now I am Shiva the destroyer of the of the CNC | Directed by Stéphane Vérité | worlds” said Oppenheimer at the time Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | of the explosion of Gadget, the bomb Running time: 1x168’ | ©Photo: Electron Libre - Christophe Charzat Libre ©Photo: Electron > Dance 26/27 MARIINSKY THEATRE

La Bayadère Telmondis 2014 Mariinsky Theatre

Ballet in three acts by . Conductor: Boris Gruzin Music by . Libretto by Choreography: Marius Petipa Marius Petipa and Sergei Khudekov. revised by Vladimir Ponomarev, Vakhtang Chabukiani with The premiere of La Bayadère in 1877 dances by Konstantin Sergeyev, was a triumph for Marius Petipa, Nikolai Zubkovsky | and this success has accompanied Set design: Mikhail Shishliannikov the ballet throughout its theatrical after set designs by Adolf Kvapp, life. The sad love story of the noble Konstantin Ivanov, Pyotr Lambin warrior Solor and the temple dancer and Orest Allegri | Nikia, who is poisoned by her rival, Costumes: Yevgeny Ponomarev | Princess Gamzatti, formed the basis Lighting Design: Mikhail for Petipa’s grand spectacle. Shishliannikov |

La Bayadère is a picturesque, Starring 19th century encyclopaedia of India; Viktoria Tereshkina: Nikia | cool temples in the shade of palm- Anastasia Matvienko: Gamzatti | trees, majestic palace walls, frenetic Vladimir Shklyarov: Solor | fakirs flagellating themselves Vladimir Ponomarev: during sacred dances, lithe The High Brahmin | dancers, colourful veils, elephants, cobras and opium hookahs. Production This Indian exoticism was created, A coproduction by Telmondis, the however, using conventional ballet Mariinsky Theatre, Mezzo with techniques of the 19th century. The the participation of M_MEDIA decorative luxuriance of the first and the support of the CNC | two acts contrasts with the third – Directed by Vincent Massip | the “white” act of the Shades – a Produced by Antoine Perset, triumph of virtuoso classical dance. Denis Morlière | Running time: 1x150’ | ©Photo: N. Razina Anna Karenine Telmondis 2014 Mariinsky Theatre

Ballet in two acts after the novel by Musical Direction: Valery Gergiev Lev Tolstoy. Music by Rodion Shchedrin. Choreographer: Alexei Ratmansky | Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky. Sets and Costumes: Mikael Melbye | Graphic / Video designer: Anna Karenina is the tragic story of a Wendall Harrington | Lighting: married aristocrat/socialite and her Jørn Melin | Dramaturgy: Martin affair with the affluent Count Vronsky. Tulinius | Assistant Choreographer: The story starts when she arrives in Tatiana Ratmanskaya | the midst of a family broken up by her brother’s unbridled womanizing Starring — something that prefigures her own Ulyana Lopatkina: Anna Karenina | later situation, though she would Victor Baranov: Alexei Karenin | experience less tolerance by others. Andrei Ermakov: Count Vronsky | Svetlana Ivanova: Princess A bachelor, Vronsky is eager to marry Shcherbatskaya (Kitty) | Dmitry her if she would agree to leave her Pykhachov: Stepan Oblonsky husband Karenin, a government (Steve) | Xenia Ostreikovskaya: official, but she is vulnerable to the Daria Oblonskaya (Dolly) | Filipp pressures of Russian social norms, Stepin: Konstantin Levin | her own insecurities, and Karenin’s Gumerova: Princess Betsy | indecision. Although Vronsky and Anna go to , where they can be Production together, they have trouble making A coproduction by Telmondis, the friends. Back in Russia, she is shunned, Mariinsky Theatre, Mezzo with the becoming further isolated and anxious, participation of France Télévisions, while Vronsky pursues his social M_MEDIA and the support of the life. Despite Vronsky’s reassurances, CNC | Directed by Vincent Massip | she grows increasingly possessive Produced by Antoine Perset, and paranoid about his imagined Denis Morlière | infidelity, fearing loss of control. Running time: 1x85’ | ©Photo: V.Baranovsky ©Photo: > Dance 28/29 OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS

Les Enfants de Scaramouche François Roussillon et Associés 2014 Opéra national de Paris

A dancing tale from the ballet «Scaramouche»

Loosely based on the ballet «Scaramouche» and created by José Martinez in 2005 for the young pupils at the Opera de Paris School of Dance, «The children of Scaramouche» draws us into a dream, that of a pupil who imagines becoming a “danseur étoile”. This choreographic fiction, shot in real-life settings ranging from the Nanterre School of dance to the magical , takes wing the streets of the capital. With the school’s pupils as the main protagonists, the story – in the manner of a coming of age tale – plunges us into the dreams and fears of childhood.

Choreographed: José Martinez Music: Darius Milhaud | Scenario: François Roussillon with the collaboration of José Martinez | Costumes: Agnès Letestu |

Starring Children of the School |

Production A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, François Roussillon et Associés, Arte France, with the support of the CNC and of La Fondation Orange | Directed by François Roussillon | Produced by Toni Hajal, Laurent Métivier | Running time: 1x57’ | ©Photo: FRA Production / Francette Levieux – OnP Levieux / Francette ©Photo: FRA Production Rain Idéale Audience 2014 Opéra national de Paris

With Rain, Anne Teresa de Kersmaeker, a major figure on the choreographic scene,gives us a work of rare intensity and refined purity. The choreographer leads the dancers to transmit the rhythmic pulsations of Music for Eighteen Musicians, by Steve Reich, a quintessential work performed here by the Ensemble Ictus. On stage, music and dance sweep the performers along in a perpetual surge of movement, a dizzying and joyful race which seems to “overflow with life”

Choreography: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Music: Steve Reich (music for Eighteen Musicians, for ensemble and voices) | Sets and lighting: Jan Versweyveld | Costumes: Dries Van Noten |

Starring Dancers from the Paris Opera Ballet: Valentine Colasante, Muriel Zusperreguy, Christelle Granier, Sae Eun Park, Léonore Baulac, Amélie Lamoureux, Laura Bachmann, Vincent Chaillet, Nicolas Paul, Daniel Stokes | Ensemble Ictus | Synergy Vocals

Production A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, Idéale Audience, Arte France with the participation of Mezzo, and the support of the CNC and of La Fondation Orange | Directed by Louise Narboni | Produced by Pierre-Olivier Bardet, Laurent Métivier | Running time: 1x74’ | ©Photo: Benoîte Fanton - OnP ©Photo: Benoîte Fanton > Dance 30/31 OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS

Ballet Evening at the Paris Opera Telmondis & Fra Productions 2014 Opéra national de Paris

Défilé of the Corps de Ballet (15 min) Music by In 1981, Aunis was part of the GRCOP’s repertoire Hector Berlioz, “Marche” extract from the opera (Choreographic Research Group of the Paris Opera). The first “défilé” was directed by Leo At the occasion of the Lyon Biennale in 1988, Jacques Staats in 1926 on the “March” from Wagner's opera Garnier chose Kader Belarbi, Jean-Claude Ciappara Tannhäuser. It was performed only two times. In and Wilfried Romoli Aunis for a new performance. 1945, Serge Lifar wanted to adapted the “Défilé”, Suite de Danses (8 min) Choreography by and chose another music: “Trojan March” by Ivan Clustine. Music by Frédéric Chopin Hector Berlioz. The Albert Aveline Creation on June 23rd 1913 at Paris Opera, part was responsible for rehearsing the dancers, and of the repertoire since June 23rd 1913, created the premiere of this new version was presented by Carlotta Zambelli and Albert Aveline. November 8th, 1946. Performed only at the occasion of galas or special events, the “Grand Défilé” of Paris Musical director: Philippe Jordan Opera Ballet is a unique parade in the world of dance. Musical direction: Frédéric Laroque Etudes (45 min) Choreography by Harald Lander. Starring Music by Carl Czerny adapted and orchestrated Défilé du Corps de Ballet: Étoiles, Premiers by Knudage Riisager. Etudes transposes a Danseurs, Corps de Ballet and Students of the Paris dance class to the stage. Conceived by Harald Opera Ballet School | Etudes: Dorothée Gilbert, Lander who was a choreographer, ballet master Karl Paquette, Josua Hoffalt, and the Corps de and director of the Opera’s Ballet School, this ballet of Paris Opera | Aunis: Julien Guillemard, ballet can be seen as amanifesto of classical Pablo Legasa, Paul Marque | Suite de Danses: technique, of its purity, rigour and exactingness. Students of the Paris Opera Ballet School Orchestra and Chorus of Paris Opera Aunis (12 min) Choreography by Jacques Garnier. Music by Maurice Pacher. From the traditional music Production of the region of La Rochelle (the Aunis), the ballet A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, has no other ambition than to recover the childhood Telmondis, François Roussillon et Associés, France memory lulled by the wind. Aunis’ creation at La Télévisions, Mezzo, with the support of the CNC | Rochelle in 1979 was a solo version – with Jacques Directed by François Roussillon | Produced by Antoine Garnier himself – and the version for three dancers Perset, Denis Morlière, Laurent Métivier, Tony Hajal | was created the following year at Theatre du Silence. Running time: 1x80’ | ©Photo: E. Bauer – OnP Daphnis et Chloé Telmondis 2014 Opéra national de Paris

Creation – Choreography by Benjamin Millepied | Music by .

Benjamin Millepied’s third creation for the Paris Opera Ballet, in collaboration with the conceptual artist Daniel Buren, revisits the myth of Daphnis and Chloe. In the tradition of Balanchine, Millepied draws his inspiration from the rhythms and colours of Ravel’s “choreographic symphony” for chorus and orchestra. Accompanying the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet for the first time, Philippe Jordan, Musical Director of the Opéra national de Paris, conducts this masterpiece of French music.

Conductor: Philippe Jordan Scenography: Daniel Buren | Costumes: Holly Hynes | Chorus master: Alessandro di Stefano | Lighting: Madjid Hakimi |

Starring Etoiles: Aurélie Dupont, Hervé Moreau, Eleonora Abbagnato | Premiers danseurs: François Alu, Alessio Carbone | and Le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris

Production A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, Telmondis, Mezzo, with the participation of France Télévisions and the support of the Fondation Orange and the CNC | Directed by François Goetghebeur | Produced by Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière, Laurent Métivier | Running time: 1x65’ | ©Photo: A Poupeney-OnP > Dance 32/33 OPÉRA NATIONAL DE PARIS

Le Palais de Cristal Telmondis 2014 Opéra national de Paris

Choreography by George Balanchine. Music by Bizet.

In 1947, George Balanchine paid tribute to the company and to the French tradition with his first production for the Paris Opera Ballet, Le Palais de Cristal, in which he choreographed an early work by , the Symphony in C. Characterised by its architectural design and sense of dialogue with the music, this ballet is a model of academic virtuosity, to which Christian Lacroix, an artisan of light and colour, has brought new shape. Accompanying the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet for the first time, Philippe Jordan, Musical Director of the Opéra national de Paris, conducts this masterpiece of French music.

Conductor: Philippe Jordan Costumes: Christian Lacroix

Starring Etoiles: Amandis Albisson, Amandine Albisson, Ludmila Pagliero, , Karl Paquette | Premiers danseurs: Nolwenn Daniel, Audric Bezard, Vincent Chaillet, Pierre-Arthur Raveau, Emmanuel Thibault and Le Corps de Ballet de l’Opéra national de Paris |

Production A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, Telmondis, Mezzo, with the participation of France Télévisions and the support of the Fondation Orange and the CNC | Directed by François Goetghebeur | Produced by Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière, Laurent Métivier | Running time: 1x35’ | ©Photo: Agathe Poupeney - Opéra national de Paris - Opéra ©Photo: Agathe Poupeney Dances at a Gathering La Belle Télé 2014 Psyché La Belle Télé 2014 Opéra national de Paris Opéra national de Paris

Choreography by Jerome Robbins Choreography by Alexei Ratmansky Created in 1969, Dances at a Gathering brings In Psyché (2011), his first work for the company, together five pairs of dancers who meet, pass and Alexei Ratmansky revisits the realm of the intermingle to the rhythm of Chopin´s waltzes and supernatural and plunges into the enchanting mazurkas for piano. The precise choreography world of Apuleius' tale. Drawing inspiration from seems to spring from the music itself and creates the symphonic poem for orchestra and chorus by a romantic atmosphere tinged with nostalgia. César Franck, he has created a work of profound lyricism and, with the complicity of the painter Conductor: Felix Krieger and installation artist, Karen Kilimnik, he unveils Musical director: Choeur Accentus a dreamlike world that lends itself to reverie. - Laurence Équilbey | Music: Frédéric Chopin | Conductor: Felix Krieger Choreography: Jerome Robbins | Musical director: Choeur Accentus – Laurence Costumes: Joe Eula | Équilbey | Music: César Franck (Symphonic Lighting: Jennifer Tipton | poem for orchestra and chorus) | Choreography: Alexei Ratmansky (Opéra national de Paris, Starring 2011) | Sets: Karen Kilimnik | Costumes: Ludmila Pagliero | Amandine Albisson | Adeline André | Lighting: Madjid Hakimi | Nolwenn Daniel | Aurélie Dupont | Charline Giezendanner | Mathieu Ganio | Karl Paquette | Starring Josua Hoffalt | Emmanuel Thibault | Christophe Laëtitia Pujol: Psyché | Marc Moreau: Eros | Duquenne | Paris Opera Orchestra Alice Renavand: Vénus | Christelle Granier, Caroline Robert : two sisters | Paris Opera Orchestra | Production A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, Production La Belle Télé, with the participation of France A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, Télévisions, and the support of the CNC | La Belle Télé, with the participation of France Directed by Thierry Teston | Télévisions, and the support of the CNC | Directed Produced by Olivier Drouot and Sébastien Folin | by Thierry Teston | Produced by Olivier Drouot Running time: 1x63’ | and Sébastien Folin | Running time: 1x60’ | ©Photo: Sébastien Mathé / Opéra national de Paris ©Photo: Sébastien Mathé / Opéra ©Photo: Sébastien Mathé / ONP > Dance 34/35 TEATRO EUGENIA / OPÉRA NATIONAL DE BORDEAUX

El Amor Brujo Les Films Figures Libres 2015 Teatro Eugenia, San Sebastian

Ballet by Victor Ullate | It should also be noted that in the Music by Manuel de Falla | Based on present ballet three popular songs the book of Vicente Molina Foix. written by Manuel de Falla will be present: Nana and Polo Asturiana. This ballet is a new creation of the Victor A new version of « El Amor Brujo », different Ullate pièce, created in May 28 1994 at the in form, but in its essence always eternal. Maestranza in Seville. It follows the Vicente Molina Foix scenario. In this new creation, Artistc direction: Eduardo Lao Ullate took the opportunity to not only Music: Manuel de Falla | change the choreography, but also light and Singer: Estrella Morente | costumes. Everything is much more inventive! Lights: Paco Azorin | In seeking to give more importance to light, Costumes: Maria Araujo | he highlights the famous Andalusian singer Estrella Morente present throughout the plot. Starring Written by Falla in the early part of the Marlen Fuerte: Candela | Ksenia Abbazova: twentieth century, « Sorcerer love » Lucía | Dorian Acosta: José-Spectre | has a strong Andalusian character. This Josué Ullate: Carmelo | Leyre Castresana: Artwork takes us into the gypsy mysticism, Pitonisa | Laura Rosillo: Gypsy Woman | approaching love in its most primitive and Rubén Olmo: Gypsy | José Becerra: essential form. It tells the story of Candela, Pretender | Mariano Cardano and Cristian a gypsy whose love for Carmelo. She is Oliveri: Angels | Teatro Real Orchestra haunted by the ghost of his former lover. A story of love and passion, tears and grief, Production sorcery and seduction, death and dancing. A coproduction by Les Films Figures The choreography contains moments Libres, Victor Ullate Ballet-Comunidad of great beauty, such as « bitter love de Madrid, Teatro Real, TVE, Mezzo | song », « Fisherman Romance », Directed by Sonia Paramo | « dance and song of the witch ». Running time: 1x100’ | © Les Films Figures Libres Films Figures © Les Pneuma Oxymore 2014 Opéra national de Bordeaux

Choreography by Carolyn Carlson | Music by Gavin Bryars

In March 1999, Carolyn Carlson and the Opéra de Bordeaux ballet premiered Hydrogen Jukebox, a fascinating choreography with music by Philip Glass. The choreographer is back this season with an exciting project drawing its inspiration from an essay by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, Air and dreams. This time the music is by Gavin Bryars, a 'post-minimalist' composer who previously worked with William Forsythe, Lucinda Childs, Maguy Marin, Jirí Kylián and Merce Cunningham. Carlson's choreography explores the duality of the human being, between body and soul, gravity and elevation, matter and mind. An ode to human nature, at once passionate and poetic.

Choreography: Carolyn Carlson Conductor: Pieter-Jelle de Boer | Scenography and lighting: Rémi Nicolas | Sets and costumes: Opéra national de Bordeaux’ workshops |

Starring Ballet of the Opéra national de Bordeaux | Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine |

Production A coproduction by Oxymore, Opéra national de Bordeaux, Mezzo, with the participation of France Télévisions | Directed by Yan Proefrock | Produced by Jean-Romain Sales | Running time: 1x85’ | ©Photo: Sigrid Colomyes > Dance 36/37 CHÂTEAU DE VERSAILLES / TATAR STATE ACADEMIC OPERA

The Orangery Nights Wahoo Production 2014 The Golden Horde Telmondis 2014 Château de Versailles Tatar State Academic Opera, Kazan ©Photo: LaurenPaschet ©Photo: Nikolay Chumakov

BOLERO BHAKTI III Music by Rezeda Akhiyarora. Choregraphy Musical direction: Rustem Abyazov Music by Maurice Ravel | Creation: Théâtre Traditional Indian music | Creation: Festival by Georgiy Kovtun. Libretto by Renat Kharis. Conductor: Renat Salavatov | Royal de /die Munt, January d’Avignon, July 1968 | Through love, the Scenography: Andrey Zlobin | 1961 | Maurice Béjart, in a very different adorer identifies with the divinity and Besieged by worries, the Spirit of Khan Costumes: Anna Ipateva | style, meets the spirit of the Rite of Spring, relives the legend of his God each time, Batyï wanders throughout his immense Lighting: Sergei Shevchenko | in the sense that, unlike most of those who this God that is but one of the nameless kingdom, dragging behind him an “arba” Chorus master: Nuria Djuraeva | choreographed the Bolero before him, he faces of reality. Shiva, the third entity of or wagon bearing the destiny of the rejects all picturesque tricks, to express the Hindu Trinity (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva), rich and powerful Golden Horde. Starring only, but how strongly, what is essential. The God of Destruction (who is moreover Maxim Potseluïko: Tokhtamych, Maurice Béjart gives the main role, Melody, the destruction of illusion and personality), Tokhtamych, Khan of the Golden Horde Khan from the Golden Hord | sometimes to a woman sometimes to a man. The God of Dance. His wife, Shakti, is appears, with his advisor the Vizir and Murza, Anton Polodyuk: Murza, a General | Rhythm is interpreted by a group of dancers. nothing other than his vital energy, which the Khan's invincible general. The Spirit of Khan Kristina Andreeva: Djanike, emanates from him and returns to him, Batyï urges them not to forget their duties in the Khan's daughter | SEVEN GREEK DANCES immobile and yet eternally in movement. relation to the magnificent empire they govern. Oleg Ivenko: Nuradin, the General’s son | Music by Mikis Theodorakis | Creation: City Beside them two children are playing. The Nurlan Kanetov: Vizir, the Khan's advisor | Center, New York, 1983 | The choreographies Choreography: Maurice Béjart little girl is Djanike, the Khan's daughter. Gleb Korablev: Timur, Emir of Samarkand | where worked in a mathematical precision The little boy is called Nuradin; he is the Mikhail Timaev: the Spirit of Khan Batyï | (certain dances are composed as the fugues Starring son of general Murza. Both have been of Bach) to become this ballet where Greece Béjart Ballet Lausanne | brought up together in the Khan's court. Production – as Greeks state it - is all as more so present Meanwhile another civil war is growing within A coproduction by Telmondis, Mezzo, as the folklore is faint and the costumes, Production the boundaries of the empire... The Spirit of with the support of the CNC | stripped, are almost nonexistent, similar A coproduction by Wahoo Production, Khan Batyï is devoured by fear: what future Directed by Vincent Massip | to what the dancers wear in the studio. Château de Versailles Spectacles, awaits his empire? Who will acceed to the Produced by Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière | Foundation Maurice Béjart, Foundation power personified by the golden helmet of Running time: 1x120’ | ETUDE POUR UNE DAME AUX CAMELIAS Béjart Ballet Lausanne, Mezzo, France Khan Batyï? The ingenious and wily Vizir Music by Frédéric Chopin and Francesco Télévisions, and the support of the CNC | has long dreamt of taking control of the Cilea | Creation: Lausanne, December 2001 | Directed by Stéphan Lebard | country. He is hatching evil projects... Running time: 1x80’ | > Documentary 38/39

Dmitri Shostakovich – A Man of Many Faces A Rose for Antonio Soler Telmondis 2014 López-Li Films 2014

Antonio Soler was the most important original scores, some of them breaking composer of Spanish music in the 18th loose in flights of fancy, all pay tribute to a century. This documentary film introduces man who, from his cold cell in the Escorial, us to the life and work of Soler who lived gave the world luminous examples of music as a monk in the Escorial Monastery. composed in the best Spanish tradition. The story is set forth by musical historians and by some of the most important Spanish Production contemporary interpreters of Soler’swork. A production by López-Li Films, with the These contemporary musicians, some of support of the CNC | Directed by Arantxa them taking exquisite care with Soler’s Aguirre | Running time: 1x56’ | www.chostakovitch.org

Dmitri Shostakovich is arguably one and Strings. The documentary will focus on two of the greatest composers of the 20th major events which shattered the composer’s century. The commemoration of the 40th life: the banning of the very successful Opera anniversary of his death in 2015 offers the Lady in 1936 and the branding as opportunity to revisit his life and works. “formalist and cosmopolitan” in 1948.

Never before has any filmmaker had the A Man of Many Faces will prove that you chance to draw on the complete cycle of the can maintain creative freedom even under composer’s 15 symphonies and all of his 6 the terror regime of a dictator like Stalin. concertos brilliantly performed by Valery Gergiev, the Mariinsky Orchestra and top Production soloists including Daniil Trifonov. Never before A production by Telmondis in has there been an interview partner like Valery association with RM Creative | Gergiev who knows the works of Shostakovich Directed by Reiner Moritz, in collaboration with inside out. In addition, there is rare footage Bertrand Dermoncourt and Antoine Perset | with the composer himself talking and Running time: 1x56’ |

performing his Concerto for Piano, Trumpet Films ©Photo: Lopez-Li Ma mère adorait la danse Carnivals around the World La Belle Télé 2014 Art 2 Voir 2009-2013

"Ma mère adorait la danse" is a portrait of hand over the reins to Benjamin Millepied, the Brigitte Lefèvre, who has been Director of Dance future director of an institution that has become at the Paris Opera for more than 20 years. This the world's most prestigious dance company. dancer with a exceptional destiny, who joined the Paris Opéra at the age of 8, has contributed Production to a worldwide dance revolution. Director A coproduction by La Belle Télé, Thierry Teston followed Brigitte Lefèvre for a Opéra national de Paris, France 3, CNC, year. From Paris to , a behind-the-scenes AROP, Mezzo, Telmondis Distribution | glimpse of her life and that of the Opera. She Directed by Thierry Teston | will leave the house in November 2014 and Running time: 1x52’ | ©Photo: David Rybojad In Paris, Tel Aviv, or Santiago de Cuba, different, all over the world, men and women the gestures are the same. Fingers busy feel the same desire: to share in freedom. themselves, looks are focused. All are preparing their costumes for the big day. Kids and adults 1st EPISODE: “WANNA BE FREE”, alike take this event seriously. Nevertheless Notting Hill, a carnival as a mirror the Carnival is not a serious matter! We have 2nd EPISODE: “ALLONS ENFANTS”, to laugh, drink and dance. Forget and shout the caribean carnival of Paris out our freedom. To steel band music, reggae 3rd EPISODE: “AD LO YADA”, or drums, each people recounts what makes Pourim, the carnival of Tel Aviv it different, its history and its struggle. Yes, 4th EPISODE: “SOMOS CUBA”, the Carnival is always a struggle, a moment the carnival of Santiago de Cuba of freedom in a tough year of danger and oppression. An eminently popular event, the Production Carnival is a cry of freedom, rich in culture and A coproduction by Art2Voir, Telmondis, sharing between generations and communities. Commune image media, with the participation of The Carnivals around the World series remind France Ô and the support of the CNC | Directed us that although our stories are always by David Rybojad | Running time: 4x52’ | ©Photo: IkAubert > Concert 40/41

International Piano Festival Telmondis 2014 Mariinsky Theatre

December 22nd 2014...... (115’) Soloist: Daniil Trifonov : Symphonic Dances, Op. 45 | Piano Concerto No 1 in F Sharp Minor, Op. 1 | Alexander Scriabin: Piano Concerto in F Sharp Minor, Op. 20 | Le Poème de l’extase, Op. 54 |

December 23rd 2014 ...... (105’) Soloist: Alexei Volodin Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Suite from the opera The Golden Cockerel | Suite from the opera The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Op. 57 Frédéric Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1 in E Minor, Op. 11 | Piano Concerto No 2 in F Minor, Op. 21 |

Musical Direction: Valery Gergiev

Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Mariinsky Theatre, in association with Mezzo and M_Media, with the support of the CNC | Directed by Vincent Massip | Running time: 1x115’ + 1x105’ | ©Photo: Valentin Baranovsky Valentin ©Photo:

Concert at the Tchaikovsky Hall Telmondis 2014 Ludwig Van Beethoven Cycle Telmondis 2014-15 Tchaikovsky Hall, Moscow Opéra national de Paris

The Nine Symphonies September 2014: Symphony no. 2 in D major, op. 36 (32') | Symphony no. 7 in A major, op. 92 (36') | Novembre 2014: Symphony no. 1 in C major, op. 21 (26') | Symphony no. 3 in E flat major, “Eroica”, op. 55 (47') | December 2014: Symphony no. 4 in B flat major op. 60 (34') | Symphony no. 5 in C minor op. 67 (31') | May 2015: Symphony no. 8 in F major op. 93 (26') | Symphony no. 6 in F major “Pastoral” op. 68 (39') | June/July 2015: Fantasy for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra op. 80 | Symphony no. 9 in D minor op. 125 (65') | Conductor: Philippe Jordan

Starring Paris Opera Orchestra | June/July 2015: Ricarda Merbeth, soprano | Daniela Sindram, mezzo-soprano | Robert Dean Smith, tenor | Günther Groissböck, bass | Jean-Yves ©Photo: Valery Gergiev Found Gergiev Valery ©Photo: Thibaudet, piano | Paris Opera Chorus | Starring Production La Mer ...... (24’) Mariinsky Orchestra | A coproduction by Opéra national de Paris, Afternoon of a Faun...... (10’30’’) Telmondis, Arte France, M_Media, Production with the support of the CNC | Directed A coproduction by Telmondis, Mariinsky by Vincent Massip | Produced by Pictures at an Exhibition...... (32’30’’) Theatre, in association with Mezzo and Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière, Laurent the Valery Gergiev Foundation | Directed Métivier | Running time: 5h36’ | Musical Direction: Valery Gergiev by Don Kent | Running time: 1x77’ | ©Photo: Jean-François Leclercq – OnP Leclercq ©Photo: Jean-François > Concert 42/43

St Matthew Passion Oxymore 2014 Gulbenkian Foundation Grand Auditorium, Lisbon

In his journey to the other side, Michel Corboz would only bring three musical works, including the St Matthew Passion.

Conducting the Orchestra and the Choir of the Foundation Gulbenkian, as well as the Children Choir of the University of Lisbon, Michel Corboz offers us one of the leading pieces in the history of music. The St Matthew Passion has inspired to Johann Sebastian Bach his most sublime lines. Each word and each sentence reveal a precise musical intention, confirming that musical language can express any human emotion.

Conductor: Michel Corboz

Starring Sandrine Piau (soprano) | Carlos Mena (contratenor) | Vincent Lièvre-Picard (tenor) | Christoph Genz (tenor) | André Baleiro (bass) | Peter Harvey (bass) | Matthias Spaeer (oud) | Marcelo Giannini (órgão) | & Choir | Coro Infantil da Universidade de Lisboa |

Production A coproduction by Oxymore, Mezzo, Gulbenkian Foundation, with the participation of France Télévisions | Directed by Michel Corboz | Running time: 1x165’ | © Maxime Nemery-Oxymore

War Requiem Oxymore 2014 Armenian Legends Wahoo Production 2014 Gulbenkian Foundation Grand Auditorium, Lisbon Opéra Comique, Paris © DR Oxymore / Fundaçaô Gulbenkian / Fundaçaô © DR Oxymore Toulet ©Photo: Fred

Commissioned for the consecration of the Starring In Armenia today like yesterday music Coventry Cathedral destroyed during World Tatiana Pavlovskaya (soprano) | is a factor of identity and openness to Starring War Two, the War Requiem, Opus 66 is John Mark Ainsley (tenor) | the world. First performed in Paris in Naïra Abrahamyan (soprano) | an anthem for reconciliation, inspired by Hanno Müller-Brachmann (bass) | 1994, Aprikian’s oratorio celebrates the Stella Grigorian (mezzo) | the acoustic and the register specific to Gulbenkian Orchestra & Choir | founding hero of Armenian culture. Wiard Witholt () | the Church, building a dialogue between Coro Infantil da Academia de Maîtrise des Hauts-de-Seine | choirs, orchestras and soloists, which Musica de Santa Cecilia | Sergei Prokofiev, Classical Symphony | Choir and orchestra Gulbenkian | alternate the requiem mass in latin and nine Aram Khachaturian, Suite from Masquerade | poems of the English soldier Wilfred Owen, Production Garbis Aprikian, Naissance Production who died during the First World War. A coproduction by Oxymore, Mezzo, de David de Sassoun | A coproduction by Wahoo Production, Gulbenkian Foundation, with the Opéra Comique, Calouste Gulbenkian Conductor: Paul McCreesh participation of France Télévisions | Conductor: Alain Altinoglu Foundation, France Télévisions, and Composer: Benjamin Britten from Directed by Yan Proefrock | the support of the CNC | Directed by nine poems by Wilfred Owe | Running time: 1x77’ | Stephan Aubé | Running time: 1x110’ > Circus 44/45

36th Tomorrow's Circus World Festival Telmondis 2015 39th Monte Carlo Circus Festival Telmondis 2015 Phénix Circus Fontvieille - Principauté de

The Tomorrow’s Circus World Festival is a Starring unique event in the world. Over the last 35 Aleksandra Savina | Antoine & Aurore | years it has enabled young artistes from Anton Graaf & Einar Kling | Arthur Cadre the world over to show off their talent to (Lil Crabe) | Biniyam & Remedan | Cie XY | enthusiastic and spellbound audiences. Since Dmitry Ikin (Idol) | Duo Catalexi | Duo de la 1977 more than 1000 acts have contributed to Troupe de Guandong | Duo Gold Art | Duo writing the new pages of circus history. These Kiebre | Duo Unity | Felix & Flow | Jacob exceptional encounters are an opportunity Stein | Jimmy Gonzalez Palacios | Kerol | for numerous performers from all cultures Kinetic Art | Kristian Kristov | Li Tong | Lift | and backgrounds to compare, enrich and Matthew Richardson | Ronja, Valpuri & Maria | widen their talents. Be they from Ethiopia, Sascha Bachmann | Troupe de Guangdong | Russia, Finland, Colombia/Uruguay, Japan, Suren & Karyna | Troupe Skokov | Canada, China, Spain or USA, performers from the entire planet are guests under the Production big top of the Cirque Phénix in Paris, the A coproduction by Telmondis, biggest circus in the world. Over the years, the Cirque Phénix, Arte, Arte Concert | Directed by Tomorrow’s Circus World Festival has become Roberto Maria Grassi | Produced by Antoine the essential reference for all circus lovers. Perset, Denis Morlière | Running time: 1x90’ | ©Photo: EdWrightImages

Created in 1974 by H.S.H. Prince Rainier III Starring of Monaco, the International Circus Festival Pyongyang National Troupe | China National of Monte-Carlo has become the largest and Acrobatic Troupe | Anastasia Fedotova- most prestigious circus event in the world. Stykan and her horses | Fumagalli and Daris | It awards the most respected prize in the Shatirov Troupe | Pronin Troupe | Yakov world of the circus, namely the «Golden Ekk Troupe | Tianjin Acrobatic Troupe… Clown» (Clown d’Or) award. Organized and presided by H.S.H. Princess Stéphanie of Production Monaco, a selection of the best international A coproduction by Telmondis, acts is presented each year at the Festival France Télévisions, Rai 3, Das Erste, which is broadcasted around the globe. SRF, RSI, RTBF, KRO, SIC | Under the theme of “Both modern and Directed by Massimo Manganaro | traditional acts in the ring!”, this edition Produced by Antoine Perset, Denis Morlière |

©Photo: B Guay includes around thirty spectacular acts. Running time: 2x52’ | > Magic > Work in progress 46/47

The Sleeping Beauty Golden Mandrakes 2014 Mega Magie 2014 Mariinsky Theatre Telmondis 2015

Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens Artistic information Ballet-féerie in three acts by Pyotr Tchaikovsky | Libretto by Ivan Vsevolozhsky, Marius Petipa after tales of Charles Perrault | Choreography by Marius Petipa revised version by Konstantin Sergeev (1952) |

Musical direction: Valery Gergiev | Set and costume designer: Simon Virsaladze | Starring Alina Somova, Vladimir Shklyarov, Vladimir Ponomarev, Elena Bazhenova, soloists and corps de ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre |

Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Mariinsky Theatre, Mezzo and the participation of France Télévisions | Directed by Olivier Simonnet | Running time: 1x170’ | ©Photo: Valentin Baranovsky Valentin ©Photo: Atvakhabar Rhapsodies Opéra de Lyon Telmondis 2015

Artistic information Ballet by Karl Biscuit and Marcia Barcellos | Choreography: Marcia Barcellos | Staging, music and visual design: Karl Biscuit | ©Photo: MIKELKL Sets: Jean-Luc Tourné | Costumes: The Greatest Magicians in the World Doble Mandoble (Belgium) | Christian Burle | Lighting: 25th International Festival Erick Lantin & Valérie (France) Patrice Besombes Starring of Illusion and Magic | Ballet of the Opéra de Lyon | Production Starring A coproduction by Mega Magie, Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Opéra de Lyon, Lukas (South Korea) | Vincent C. (Canada) | Paris Première | Directed by Laurent Brun | Mezzo and the participation of France Télévisions | Directed by Rémi Larrousse (France) | Erix Logan (Italia) | Produced by Gilles Arthur | Vincent Massip | Running time: Les Chapeaux Blancs (France) | Running time: 1x105’ | 1x90’ | ©Photo: Jaime Roque de la Cruz ©Photo: Jaime Roque Tatjana The Olympia does its Magic! Mega Magie 2014 DANCE Ballett – John Neumeier Telmondis 2015

L’Olympia, Paris Artistic information Ballet of John Neumeier after “Eugene Onegin” by | Original music – world creation: | Choreography and staging: John Neumeier | Sets and Costumes: John Neumeier | Starring Tatjana: Hélène Bouchet | Eugene Onegin: Edvin Revazov | Olga Larina: Leslie Heylmann | Vladimir Lensky: Alexandr Trusch | Prince N: Carsten Jung |

Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Hamburg Ballett, Mezzo and the participation of France Télévisions | Directed by Thomas Grimm | Running time: 1x145’ | ©Photo: Holger Badekow Casse-Noisette Compagnie Grimaldi Forum, Monaco Telmondis 2015

Artistic information Ballet by Jean-Christophe Maillot | Music by | Starring Les de Monte-Carlo | ©Photo: Mega Magie An exceptional evening at the Olympia Production Production A coproduction by Telmondis, with the greatest magicians in the world: A coproduction by Mega Magie, Paris Première Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo | humor, magic, laughter and even laughter! Directed by Laurent Brun | Produced by Running time: 1x110 | Gilles Arthur | Running time: 1x90’ | ©Photo: Hans Gerritsen > Work in progress 48/49

The Queen of Spades Bluebeard’s Castle Mariinsky Theatre Telmondis 2015 La Voix humaine New production – World premiere Opéra national de Paris Telmondis 2015 Opening of the XXIII Stars of the White Nights Artistic information | music festival at the Mariinsky II Bluebeard’s Castle Opera in one act by Béla Bartók | Libretto by Béla Balazs with Johannes Martin Kränzle and Artistic information Opera in three acts by Ekaterina Gubanova | | Pyotr Tchaikovsky Libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky, La Voix humaine Opera in one act by Francis Poulenc | | after the novel by Alexander Pushkin Libretto by Jean Cocteau with Barbara Hannigan | Musical direction: Valery Gergiev | Musical direction: Esa-Pekka Salonen | Stage direction: Alexei Stepanyuk | Staging: Krzysztof Warlikowski | Starring: Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre | Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Mariinsky Theatre, Opéra national de Paris | Running time: 1x135’ | Mezzo and the participation of France Télévisions | © Mariinsky Theatre N.Razina Theatre © Mariinsky Delagarde.jpg © Jean-Pierre Eugene Onegin La Damnation de Faust Mariinsky Theatre Telmondis 2015 Opéra national de Paris Telmondis 2015 New production – Premiered in February 2014 Artistic information at the Mariinsky Theatre | Opera in four acts by Hector Berlioz | © Natasha Razina Artistic information Opera in three acts by Pyotr Tchaikovsky | Libretto by Hector Berlioz Libretto by Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Konstantin Shilovsky after and Almire Gandonnière | the poetic novel of the same name by Alexander Pushkin | Musical direction: Valery Gergiev | Stage direction: Alexei Stepanyuk | Musical direction: Philippe Jordan | Set design: Alexander Orlov | Costume design: Irina Cherednikova | Staging: Alvis Hermanis with Choreography: Ilya Ustyantsev | Starring: Soloists, Chorus and Sophie Koch and | OPERA Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre | Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Mariinsky Theatre, Opéra national de Paris | Mezzo and the participation of France Télévisions | Running time: 1x160’ | Directed by Vincent Massip | Running time: 1x160' | © Christian Leiber Jalil La Cenerentola Tatar State Academic Opera Telmondis 2015 Opéra de Rennes Telmondis 2015 Artistic information Artistic information Melodramma giocoso in two acts by Opera in two acts by Nazib Zhiganov | de Gioachino Rossini | Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti (1817) | Musical direction: Darrell Ang | Staging: Jérôme Savary | Sets and Starring Chorus and Orchestra of the Costumes: Ezio Toffolutti | Lighting: Alain Poisson | Choreography: Tatar State Academic Opera | Frédérique Lombart | Starring: Angelina: José Maria Lo Monaco | Don Ramiro: Daniele Zanfardino | Dandini: Marc Scoffoni | Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Don Magnifico: Bruno Praticò | Tisbe: Anna Steiger | Clorinda: Tatar State Academic Opera, Mezzo, M_Media | Jeannette Fischer | Alidoro: Luigi De Donato | Orchestre Directed by Vincent Massip | Symphonique de Bretagne | Chorus of Opéra de Rennes Running time: 1x120’ | Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Opéra de Rennes, with the participation of France 3 Bretagne and TV Rennes | Directed by Denis Caïozzi | Running time: 1x160’ | © Tatar State Academic Opera State Tatar © © Concert at Concert de Paris 2015 Münchner Philharmoniker Eiffel Tower, Paris Electron Libre Prod. 2015 Telmondis 2015 Artistic information | Artistic information September 22nd and 23rd 2015: 2015’s theme: « Paris embraces the World » Musical direction: Daniele Gatti | Brahms (45’), Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 | Starring Sonya Yoncheva (soprano) | Lang Lang (piano) | Bruckner (80’), Symphony No. 4 in E-flat major | Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano) | (baritone- September 24th 2015: Prokofiev (28’), Suite No. 1 from bass) | Sumi Hwang (soprano) | … | Maîtrise de Radio France | Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64bis | Prokofiev (28’), Suite No. 2 from Chorus of Radio France | Orchestre National de France | Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64ter | Strauss (20’), Don Juan, Op. 20 | Tchaikovsky (45’), Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, Pathétique |

CONCERT Production A coproduction by Productions, Musical direction: Valery Gergiev | Starring: Soloist: in association with Radio France, Lagardère Janine Jansen | Philharmonic Orchestra | Entertainment, France Télévisions | Production A coproduction by Telmondis, Munich Philharmonic, Running time: 1x90’ | Mezzo | Directed by François René Martin | Running times: 1x125’ and 1x121’ | © Münchner Philharmoniker Production Libre © Electron LIVE IN CINEMA ON DECEMBER 31ST 2015 Casse-Noisette Compagnie

Choreography by Jean-Christophe Maillot Music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

A coproduction by Telmondis and Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo ©Photos: Hans Gerritsen / Alice Blangero

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